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Evan Peters, star of “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” and “Mare of Easttown,” is joining Jared Leto in “Tron: Ares,” the third film in Disney’s extremely long-lived cyberspace franchise.

Joachim Rønning (“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”) will direct the film from a script by Jesse Wigutow. Production is set for August (an actors strike notwithstanding).

Along with his frequent appearances on FX’s “American Horror Story” anthology series, Peters played Peter Maximoff in several “X-Men” movies for 20th Century Fox (before the studio was acquired by Disney), starting with 2014’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

The original “Tron,” starring Jeff Bridges, debuted in 1982 with groundbreaking innovations in digital visual effects. Originally a flop, the film generated a cult following, which eventually led to the 2010 sequel “Tron: Legacy,” starring Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde. “Top Gun: Maverick” filmmaker Joseph Kosinski made his directorial debut with the film. He developed a sequel for several years but ultimately parted ways with Disney on the project in 2015.

“When I made ‘Tron: Legacy,’ they didn’t own Marvel; they didn’t own ‘Star Wars,’” Kosinski told Vulture in 2022. “We were the play for fantasy and science fiction. And once you’ve got those other things under your umbrella, it makes sense that you’re going to put your money into a known property and not the weird art student with black fingernails in the corner — that was ‘Tron.’ And that’s OK.”

Two years later, Leto signed up to star and produce a third “Tron” movie, and he’s remained attached since. Justin Springer, Jeffrey Silver and Emma Ludbrook are also producing.

If you are an actor out there, the story of Evan Peters will be absolutely inspirational. He was a kid from Missouri who fell in love with movies and the characters he would see in them, and a chance meeting with a casting person gave him the impetus to beg his parents to let him move to Hollywood at just age 15. In his second audition he got the job, and eventually achieved his goal of meeting the Olsen twins (or at least one of them).

It hasn’t stopped for Peters since then in a young career that has already won him an Emmy for Mare of Easttown and a Golden Globe earlier this year for his acclaimed work as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story on Netflix. He is also a producer on the limited series with Ryan Murphy and was careful about his, and the show’s, approach to telling the story of this notorious killer. From adopting his physical attributes to staying in character throughout, Peters put his all into the part, but in this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side he tells me it is going to be his last walk on the dark side of humanity for a very long time. You can’t blame him. Murphy has also put him in numerous seasons of American Horror Story as a variety of unsavory characters, even including another serial killer, and Peters feels it is time for a change.

He loved playing his Emmy-winning role of Det. Colin Zabel opposite Kate Winslet in Mare, a normal guy who met a tragic and shocking end, and he tells me he learned a lot from the experience of working with the veteran star. He even has already been part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe playing Peter/Quicksilver in several X Men movies, as well as WandaVision, and there is much, much more to come.

To watch our conversation and get the “actor’s side” of things from Peters, click on the video above.

Added new photos of Evan Peters attending Deadline Contenders Television at Directors Guild Of America on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. 

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