Jodie Turner-Smith Joins Jared Leto in Disney’s ‘Tron 3’

Jodie Turner-Smith, who starred in 2019’s Queen & Slim, has joined the cast of Tron: Ares, the third installment of Disney’s technology-pushing movie series.

Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Evan Peters have already logged on to the cyber adventure, which is gearing up for an August shoot in Vancouver. Joachim Ronning, who helmed Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and co-directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, is in the director’s chair.

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Disney released the original Tron in 1982, with Jeff Bridges starring as video game designer Kevin Flynn, who is transported inside his own creation and teams up with Tron, a security program played by Bruce Boxleitner. Bridges returned for a 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy.

While the two previous 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.

Leto, who has been attached to the project for several years, is to play Ares, the manifestation of the program. Lee is playing a video game programmer and tech CEO in what is described as a leading role.

It is not clear who Turner-Smith is playing.

Emma Ludbrook and Leto are producing through their production company Paradox along with Justin Springer and Jeffrey Silver. Russell Allen is executive producing.

Turner-Smith co-starred on TNT’s drama The Last Ship and Syfy’s space horror drama Nightflyers before gaining strong notices with Slim, which was directed by Melina Matsoukas and had a script by Lena Waithe.

She was more recently seen in Netflix’s Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston, and next appears in Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolyte.

Turner-Smith is repped by UTA, 111 Media and Johnson Shapiro.

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