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The original director's groundbreaking 1982 film Tron mostly takes place within the virtual realm inside video games, where software entities, depicted as characters in neon-streaked costumes, battle on the Grid in lethal challenges. Programs are ruthlessly killed (or “derezzed”) in the Combat Zone and obliterated by jetwalls in high-speed battles. The filmmaker's 2010 sequel Tron: Legacy returns inside the virtual domain for more vehicle combat and more conflict on the Grid.

The filmmaker's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares adopts a somewhat reduced game-like method. In the film, digital entities still clash each other for endurance on the virtual arena, but primarily in high-stakes struggles over classified information, serving as avatars for their business developers. Security programs and intrusion agents confront on digital networks, and in the outside world, large vehicles and speed bikes exported from the Grid function as they do in the simulated universe.

The soldier software the main character (Jared Leto) is another modern creation: a enhanced fighter who can be repeatedly manufactured to fight wars in the physical realm. But would the human actor have the practical skills to make it if he was pulled into one of the virtual world's challenges? At a recent media gathering, actors and filmmakers of Tron: Ares were questioned what virtual worlds they would be most likely to make it through. We have their answers — but we've also our own assessments about their abilities to endure inside virtual worlds.

The Star

Role: In Tron: Ares, Greta Lee portrays Eve Kim, the chief executive of ENCOM, who is preoccupied from her corporate responsibilities as she attempts to retrieve the key data assumed to be left behind by the founder (the actor).

The digital environment the actress feels she could survive in: “My kids are very into Minecraft,” she states. “I would never want them to know this, but [Minecraft] is so fantastic, the worlds that they create. I think I would want to explore one of the realms that they've made. My little one has built this one with creatures — it's just stocked with birds, because he loves parrots.”

Lee’s probability of survival: Ninety percent. If Lee simply resides with her little ones' feathered companions, she's secure. But it's unknown whether she understands how to steer clear of or contend with a dangerous creature.

The Actor

Character: Evan Peters portrays the antagonist, the head of opposing corporation the organization and descendant of the founder (David Warner) from the first Tron.

The virtual world the actor thinks he could survive in: “I'd certainly lose in the [Disc Arena],” he said. “I might go into BioShock.” Explaining that answer to colleague Gillian Anderson, he explains, “It's such a excellent video game, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, remarkable dystopian environments in Fallout, and BioShock is an subterranean, run-down dystopia.” Did he even understand the inquiry? Unknown.

Peters’ likelihood of survival: In BioShock? Five percent, similar to any other normal human's chances in the city. In any of the post-apocalyptic game? A modest chance, purely based on his appeal score.

The Star

Part: Gillian Anderson portrays the matriarch, guardian to Julian and child to Ed. She’s the ex CEO of the company, and a significantly rational executive than her son.

The digital environment Gillian Anderson believes she could make it through: “Pong,” said Anderson, in spite of her apparent experience with the digital experience Myst and her featured role in the 1998 choose-your-own-adventure software The X-Files Game. “That's as sophisticated as I could manage. It might take so long for the [ball] to arrive that I could duck out of the way promptly before it came to strike me in the head.”

The actress's probability of success: An even chance, depending on the basic nature of the title and whether being hit by the object, or not volleying the pixel back to the other player, would be deadly. Additionally, it’s really gloomy in Pong — could she slip off the stage to her death? What does the dark abyss of the title affect a individual?

The Filmmaker

Role: Joachim Rønning is the filmmaker of Tron: Ares. He additionally helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world Rønning thinks he could survive in: Tomb Raider. “I am a youngster of the ’80s, so I was interested in the retro system and the Atari, but the original title that got to me was the very first Tomb Raider on the console,” he explains. “Being a film enthusiast — it was the initial game that was so immersive, it was tactile. I'm not sure that's the game I would really like to be in, but that was my initial incredible journey, at least.”

Rønning’s likelihood of survival: Twenty percent. If Rønning was transported into a Tomb Raider world and had to contend with the creatures and {booby traps