Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor‘s industrial indie rock group of many incarnations, is coming together to take on the score of Disney’s Tron: Ares. The reveal about the upcoming sci-fi pic took place Friday night during a presentation at D23.
Just like Daft Punk was responsible for the sound of 2010’s Tron: Legacy, NIN are giving this Tron its futuristic sonic sound. That Tron: Legacy album wound up breaking soundtrack records back during its release.
Tron: Ares is the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise. Starring the returning Jared Leto, the plot follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with AI beings. It’s directed by Joachim Rønning. Original star Jeff Bridges also returns with a cast that includes Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson.
It has an October 10, 2025 release date after going into production this past January.
Reznor’s Nine Inch Nails was mostly a one-man band after he formed it in the late 1980s, hitting it big with 1989’s Pretty Hate Machine, which went triple platinum. Eventually, a rotating group of musicians joined Reznor on later NIN albums and incarnations, notably frequent collaborator Atticus Ross in 2016.
Ross and Reznor have become a formidable movie music duo, collaborating among others with David Fincher for his pics The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network and Mank, winning the Original Score Oscar in 2011 for Social Network. With Mank they were actually nominated twice in 2021, winning along with John Batiste for Disney/Pixar’s Soul.
The Tron franchise launched in 1982 starring Bridges as video game creator Kevin Flynn, which became a cult classic. It took until 2010 for the follow-up, Tron: Legacy, introducing Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde to the cast.
