Jared Leto has been teasing his involvement in a new Tron sequel since 2017, and after numerous setbacks and creative changes, Tron 3 might finally be happening. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Tron movie will be helmed by Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Pirates 5 co-director Joachim Rønning. Leto will lead the cast in an as-yet-unspecified role in what is currently titled Tron: Ares.

The original Tron was released over 40 years ago in 1982; Jeff Bridges starred as computer hacker Kevin Flynn who finds himself transported into the digital world. Using cutting-edge technology (for its time), Tron was a game changer and helped pave the way for more special effects-driven movies. Despite its modest box office success, fans would have to wait 28 years before the belated sequel, Tron Legacy, hit cinemas in 2010. Directed by Joseph Kosinski and armed with a budget of more than $170 million, Legacy grossed $400 million, but it fell short of what the studio had expected. Be that as it may, the original soundtrack by Daft Punk lives on as one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. 

Leto has had quite the year; his performance in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci was a bold choice; regardless of whether you thought it was good or bad or both at the same time, it was indefinable. Perhaps it's best summed up by an eloquent line of dialogue that Leto said as Paolo Gucci, "never confuse shit with chocolate. They may look the same, but the taste is very different." Meanwhile, if one polarizing performance wasn't enough, Sony unleashed Morbius unto the world, and we can all agree it was a movie that was released in 2022. A sequel seems like a long shot, but we can't rule out seeing Morbius again as Sony is determined to forge ahead with its own Spider-verse.