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Call it a soft reboot.

Tron Ares is the third film on the Tron franchise, but it's not a direct sequel, so you can go in pretty clean.

What's important is that it flips the script.

Instead of humans entering the digital world, this movie sees human-shaped artificial intelligence programs entering our world.

It stars Jared Leto as an AI soldier, Greta Lee as a CEO trying to save the world, and Evan Peters as a CEO trying to 3D print an army or something. I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about Tron, Ares, on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me today is Jordan Cruciola. She's a writer and producer and the host of the podcast Feeling Scene on Maximum Fun. Welcome back, Jordan. Thank you so much for having me on the occasion of Tron.

On the occasion of Tron.

Wouldn't think of anybody else.

Also with us is the co-host of Slate's I-Cy-Y-M-I podcast and former pop culture happy hour producer Candice Lim, showing her face around here.

Hey, Candice.

Hi.

Hey.

All right, let's get into it.

In Tron Aries, Greta Lee is Eve.

She's a programmer trying to bring objects from the digital world into the real world to help save lives.

The problem, digital objects can't survive in our world longer than 29 minutes.

Meanwhile, a rival programmer played by Evan, is using the same tech to bring

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