Tron: Ares Casts Yellowjackets Star In Major Role
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Desjardins is the latest addition to the cast of Tron: Ares, the upcoming third installment in the Tron franchise. The Yellowjackets star will be appearing alongside such previously announced cast members as Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Jared Leto. No actors from either of the previous two films have been announced as having any roles in this installment yet, though that could always change.
Sarah Desjardins of Yellowjackets fame joins the cast of Tron: Ares.
Following the groundbreaking classic Tron (1982) and its partially 3-D sequel Tron: Legacy (2010), Tron: Ares seems to be deviating from the pattern of previous films to some degree. In the first film, Jeff Bridges plays Kevin Flynn, a video game designer who is digitized and inserted into the world of his own game. The second movie again features Bridges, but focuses primarily on Flynn’s son Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who goes into the game world looking for his father.
In Tron: Ares, there is reportedly less time spent on the game grid, with more of the action taking place in the outside world. The plot apparently concerns a rogue self-aware program that escapes into the world of humans.
What role Sarah Desjardins will be playing, along with how or if her character or those of her costars will be connected to Kevin and Sam Flynn, we don’t yet know, but we imagine the film will touch in some way on the Flynn family legacy.
Sarah Desjardins’ Career
Before she gets to star in Tron: Ares, though, Sarah Desjardins will be seen in Float by director Sherren Lee and the series Dead Boy Detectives. The Canadian actor has done quite a few series, including playing Donna Sweett in Riverdale and young Emma Smith in the miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven, not to mention her well-known work on Showtime’s acclaimed Yellowjackets as Callie Sadecki. In that series, she appears alongside such stars as Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis.
Tron: Ares was by no means guaranteed to happen, with speculation of the past decade and change over whether the Tron franchise was finished. But interest in the world of the game grid has remained, even if the second film was not as widely praised as was hoped. Each film in the series has so far explored a different element of human interaction with technology—particularly with computers and the digital world.
In Tron: Ares, there is reportedly less time spent on the game grid, with more of the action taking place in the outside world.
In a world where A.I. is evolving quickly and threatening to grow beyond control, it is interesting, then, that Tron: Ares seems to flip the script and have the digital world intruding into the real world—at least the one that’s real for all of us.
Whether the new movie is intended as any sort of commentary on those ideas remains to be seen as much about its stories and characters is still not known. With some interesting elements of the interaction of the human and the digital left explored in the second film, we’re hoping this new one builds on those ideas in some way.
More Tron: Ares announcements are sure to be made, though the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are making every production increasingly unpredictable. We’re hoping we’ll be seeing those issues resolved and Sarah Desjardins entering the world of Tron very soon.
