This just in: Gillian Anderson is entering The Grid!
According to Deadline, the double Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress has signed on to join the next installment of Disney’s popular sci-fi series, Tron. As previously reported, the film will be titled Tron: Ares.
There’s no word on who Anderson will be playing, but she joins an already star-studded cast featuring Jared Leto, Evan Peters, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cameron Monaghan, and Sarah Desjardins.
Her casting comes right as production started last week.
Anderson is no stranger to the sci-fi genre as she got her start in one of the most iconic science fiction television shows of all time: The X Files. She was last seen on the popular Netflix series Sex Education.
The studio is keeping plot and character details mostly under wraps, but Deadline also reports the film follow Leto as a character named Ares. He crosses over from the world of videogames to planet Earth.
In case you were wondering who some of the other characters were playing obtained character breakdowns last year. You can check them out here.
While the first two Tron movies were largely set inside the world of computers and programs, the script for Ares, written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne, is said to focus on the emergence of a sentient program that crosses over into the human world that is not ready for contact. While Ares is a sequel to Tron: Legacy, it is unknown if any characters from that film will return any capacity.
SOURCE: Deadline
