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The original director's groundbreaking 1982 film Tron largely occurs within the fantastical realm inside digital games, where programs, portrayed as characters in glowing attire, face off on the digital arena in deadly games. The characters are mercilessly destroyed (or “derezzed”) in the Disc Arena and crushed by force fields in digital vehicle showdowns. The filmmaker's 2010 follow-up Tron: Legacy ventures inside the digital realm for further light-cycle action and additional fighting on the Grid.

The new director's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares takes a slightly less video game-y approach. In the movie, programs still fight each other for existence on the Grid, but mostly in high-stakes conflicts over classified information, serving as agents for their company developers. Protection software and hacking tools clash on corporate systems, and in the real world, Recognizers and light cycles brought from the digital realm behave as they do in the digital environment.

The combat entity Ares (the star) is another recent development: a super-soldier who can be endlessly replicated to participate in conflicts in the real world. But would the real-life star have the practical abilities to survive if he was inserted into one of the Grid’s games? During a current press event, the cast and crew of Tron: Ares were inquired what digital environments they would be most apt to make it through. Below are their answers — but we've also our own judgments about their abilities to persist inside simulated environments.

The Star

Character: In Tron: Ares, Lee embodies the CEO, the leader of the company, who is diverted from her leadership tasks as she attempts to retrieve the crucial information believed to be left behind by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).

The digital environment the actress believes she could survive in: “My children are very into Minecraft,” she says. “I'd never want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so cool, the worlds that they create. I feel I would want to go onto one of the worlds that they've built. My little one has designed this one with beasts — it's just stocked with parrots, because he is fond of parrots.”

Greta Lee's chances of survival: A high percentage. If Greta Lee simply hangs out with her children's feathered companions, she's all good. But it's uncertain whether she is aware of how to steer clear of or handle a Creeper.

The Star

Role: Evan Peters plays the antagonist, the chief of competing company the business and grandson of the original character (David Warner) from the initial Tron.

The virtual world Peters feels he could survive in: “I would definitely be defeated in the [Disc Arena],” he remarked. “I would go into BioShock.” Clarifying that answer to fellow actor the actress, he says, “It's really such a good game, it’s the finest. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, amazing dystopian environments in the franchise, and the game is an underground, decrepit dystopia.” Was he understand the inquiry? Unclear.

Evan Peters' chances of survival: In BioShock? A low chance, comparable to any other normal human's odds in the location. In any of the post-apocalyptic series? A modest chance, purely based on his appeal score.

The Star

Part: the actress plays the mother, guardian to the character and offspring to the founder. She’s the previous CEO of Dillinger Systems, and a increasingly calm executive than the character.

The virtual world the actress feels she could survive in: “Pong,” remarked Anderson, regardless of her evident knowledge with the game Myst and her co-starring role in the late 1990s interactive software The X-Files Game. “That is as complex as I could get. It'd take so long for the [ball] to come that I could move out of the way promptly before it came to collide with me in the head.”

The actress's likelihood of endurance: Fifty percent, based on the basic character of Pong and whether being hit by the object, or not hitting the pixel back to the other player, would be fatal. Additionally, it’s really dim in Pong — could she slip off the platform to her death? What does the black void of the title do to a individual?

The Director

Position: Joachim Rønning is the director of Tron: Ares. He furthermore directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world Rønning believes he could make it through: Tomb Raider. “I am a kid of the ’80s, so I was interested in the retro system and the console, but the first game that got to me was the original Tomb Raider on the console,” Rønning says. “Since I'm a cinema buff — it was the initial experience that was so engaging, it was interactive. I'm not sure that's the game I would really desire to be in, but that was my initial incredible adventure, at least.”

The director's probability of survival: A low chance. If Joachim Rønning was transported into a adventure game and had to face the wildlife and {booby traps