This story contains spoilers for “Tron: Ares“
Get ready to enter the Grid: Tron: Ares is finally out in theaters.
Tron: Ares, directed by Joachim Rönning, is the third installment of the science fiction classic. franchise it started with the 1982 film Tron. And like many modern films that are part of a vast Hollywood franchise, Tron: Ares leaves the door open for future storytelling.
Tron: Ares does this in the final moments of the film's main story, as well as in the stinger that plays after the credits roll.
The film takes place some time after the events of “Tron: Legacy(2010), stars Jared Leto as an advanced artificial intelligence program named Ares, created by Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters), programmer and rising CEO of a technology corporation. Greta Lee portrays Eve Kim, also a programmer and CEO of a technology company once led by the hero of the original Tron. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).
While understanding Tron: Ares doesn't necessarily require extensive knowledge of the previous films, fans of Tron and Legacy will be the first to realize the significance of the doors the film leaves open. (If you want to avoid spoilers, go back.)
Evan Peters as Julian Dillinger in Tron: Ares.
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The post-credits scene is a reference to Tron.
Tron: Ares ends with Julian—the grandson of Edward Dillinger, Flynn's original Tron rival—escaping to the Dillinger Corporation Grid.
The post-credits scene shows Julian sorting through the wreckage of his digital world before noticing and activating his ID disk. After he picked up the glowing round object, his digital suit began to take on a familiar silhouette.
Those who have seen Tron will recognize that Julian's costume resembles that of Sark, the villainous program written by Ed Dillinger who led the original film's Master Control Program army. In Tron, Sark was played by David Warner, who also played Ed.
This scene further cements Julian as the successor to his grandfather's legacy and leaves open the possibility of him returning as a villain in a future Tron installment.

Jared Leto as Ares in Tron: Ares.
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Tron: Ares ends with a hint of a future connection to Tron: Legacy.
The new Tron movie ends with a hint that Ares' story is not over yet. In the final moments of the film, Ares looks at images of Quorra, the character Olivia Wilde played in Tron: Legacy.
Quorra, like Ares, began her existence on the Grid and eventually made her way into the real world. But Quorra is not an artificial program; she is an “isomorphic algorithm” or digital being that spontaneously emerged from the Grid. In Legacy, she was introduced as Flynn's mentee who learned about humanity from him.
Could a meeting between Ares and Quorra be in the future of the Tron franchise? Only time (and most likely the box office performance of Tron: Ares) will tell.