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A new installment of Tron is coming back online. After multiple false starts, the studio is back on track for a third Tron movie, with Jared Leto attached to star and director Joachim Rønning in talks to helm. Nominally titled Tron: Ares.The film is crewing up, eyeing an August start date in Vancouver.

Disney's Tron sci-fi franchise, began with the 1982 film that starred Jeff Bridges and was set inside the computer program called the Grid, where a computer hacker is abducted and forced to participate in gladiatorial games. The film's special effects were seen as game-changing at the time. In 2010 a sequel followed, Tron: Legacy, with Bridges reprising his role, Garret Hedlund and Olivia Wilde joining the franchise. It was the feature directing debut of “Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski. That film grossed $400 million globally, and Disney has been trying to figure out how to continue the franchise since.

Jared Leto first plugged into a third Tron movie in 2017 as the star and a producer, and he’s remained attached ever since. Garth Davis (Lion) signed on to helm the movie in 2020, but he ultimately parted ways with the project. Jesse Wigutow remains the film’s screenwriter, and Justin Springer, Jeffrey Silver and Emma Ludbrook are also producing. Leto next will co-star in Disney’s "Haunted Mansion".

Joachim Rønning has experience with sustaining Disney’s live-action film franchises. After launching his career in 2012 with the Oscar-nominated nautical adventure “Kon-Tiki,” the Norwegian filmmaker was tapped by Disney to direct the most recent “Pirates of the Caribbean” film, 2017’s “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” immediately followed by 2019’s “Maleficent” sequel. He recently wrapped production on “Young Woman and the Sea,” a biopic about Gertrude Ederle (Daisy Ridley), the first woman to swim across the English Channel. The film is set to debut on Disney+ this year.

Last year, Kosinski told Vulture that he had written and storyboarded a Tron: Legacy sequel that would bring the digital world of the movies into the real world. He was ready to move forward by 2015, but by then, the studio’s priorities had shifted and the movie fell apart.

“When I made ‘Tron: Legacy,’ they didn’t own Marvel; they didn’t own ‘Star Wars,'” Kosinski said. “We were the play for fantasy and science fiction. And once you’ve got those other things under your umbrella, it makes sense that you’re going to put your money into a known property and not the weird art student with black fingernails in the corner — that was ‘Tron.’ And that’s okay.”

The Tron franchise has appeared in crossover series like "Kingdom Hearts" and "Disney Infinity". Also it has been the focus of a television show "Tron: Uprising" and numerous video games, including the recently announced "Tron: Identity."