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Steven Lisberger's iconic 1982 picture Tron mostly takes place within the virtual realm inside digital games, where software entities, portrayed as characters in neon-streaked attire, compete on the virtual landscape in lethal contests. Programs are ruthlessly killed (or “deleted”) in the Disc Arena and crushed by energy barriers in digital vehicle battles. The filmmaker's 2010 continuation Tron: Legacy goes back inside the virtual domain for more vehicle combat and further conflict on the virtual world.

The filmmaker's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares adopts a somewhat reduced game-like method. In the picture, digital entities still fight each other for existence on the virtual arena, but mostly in critical struggles over secretive files, serving as representatives for their corporate developers. Protection software and hacking tools engage on ENCOM servers, and in the real world, large vehicles and light cycles brought from the virtual world operate as they do in the virtual world.

The combat entity the protagonist (the star) is another recent development: a super-soldier who can be infinitely replicated to participate in conflicts in the real world. But would the human actor have the real-world skills to endure if he was inserted into one of the Grid’s games? At a recent press event, stars and directors of Tron: Ares were inquired what digital environments they would be most likely to survive in. Below are their responses — but we've also our own assessments about their capabilities to persist inside simulated environments.

Greta Lee

Role: In Tron: Ares, the actress portrays Eve Kim, the chief executive of the corporation, who is distracted from her corporate responsibilities as she attempts to locate the key data believed to be abandoned by Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges).

The virtual world Greta Lee believes she could survive in: “My children are extremely into Minecraft,” she states. “I'd never want them to discover this, but [Minecraft] is so cool, the environments that they construct. I believe I would like to enter one of the worlds that they've made. My youngest has built this one with creatures — it's just stocked with birds, because he adores parrots.”

Greta Lee's chances of survival: 90%. If Lee simply resides with her kids’ birds, she's safe. But it's unknown whether she is aware of how to avoid or deal with a hostile mob.

The Star

Part: the actor plays Julian Dillinger, the head of competing company Dillinger Systems and descendant of Ed Dillinger (the star) from the original Tron.

The game Evan Peters feels he could survive in: “I'd certainly lose in the [Disc Arena],” he remarked. “I would go into BioShock.” Explaining that reply to fellow actor the actress, he states, “It is such a great video game, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, incredible ruined worlds in Fallout, and the game is an subterranean, run-down nightmare.” Did he grasp the question? Uncertain.

The actor's likelihood of success: In BioShock? Five percent, comparable to any other regular individual's likelihood in the location. In any of the Fallout title? A modest chance, only based on his appeal level.

The Actress

Character: the actress portrays Elisabeth Dillinger, parent to the character and offspring to Ed. She’s the ex chief executive of the corporation, and a more calm executive than her son.

The virtual world Gillian Anderson believes she could make it through: “Pong,” stated the actress, despite her apparent knowledge with the digital experience Myst and her co-starring role in the 1998's participatory software The X-Files Game. “That's as sophisticated as I could handle. It would take so much time for the [ball] to approach that I could move out of the way swiftly before it reached to hit me in the head.”

The actress's likelihood of endurance: 50%, based on the basic character of Pong and whether getting struck by the ball, or not volleying the ball back to the opponent, would be lethal. Also, it’s extremely dim in Pong — could she fall off the platform to her demise? What does the dark abyss of Pong affect a person?

Joachim Rønning

Position: the director is the director of Tron: Ares. He also helmed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world the director believes he could make it through: Tomb Raider. “I was a kid of the ’80s, so I was fond of the home computer and the gaming device, but the initial title that influenced me was the first ever Tomb Raider on the system,” he explains. “Since I'm a cinema buff — it was the original experience that was so engaging, it was tactile. I'm not sure that's the game I would actually like to be in, but that was my original amazing adventure, at least.”

Rønning’s chances of endurance: Twenty percent. If Rønning was transported into a Lara Croft game and had to face the creatures and {booby traps