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Steven Lisberger's groundbreaking 1982 film Tron mostly takes place within the fantastical world inside video games, where software entities, envisioned as people in neon-streaked outfits, compete on the virtual landscape in dangerous games. These entities are brutally killed (or “deleted”) in the Disc Arena and crushed by force fields in high-speed showdowns. The filmmaker's 2010 follow-up Tron: Legacy returns inside the computer world for more light-cycle action and more combat on the virtual world.

The filmmaker's Legacy continuation Tron: Ares employs a slightly lesser video game-y approach. In the picture, digital entities still fight each other for endurance on the virtual arena, but primarily in high-stakes struggles over classified files, acting as representatives for their company creators. Security programs and hacking tools clash on digital networks, and in the outside world, Recognizers and light cycles transferred from the virtual world operate as they do in the digital environment.

The soldier software Ares (the star) is an additional modern creation: a advanced warrior who can be repeatedly manufactured to participate in conflicts in our world. But would the human actor have the practical skills to endure if he was transported into one of the digital arena's challenges? During a current media gathering, the cast and crew of Tron: Ares were asked what games they would be most inclined to survive in. Below are their replies — but we also offer our own assessments about their abilities to endure inside simulated environments.

The Actress

Part: In Tron: Ares, Lee portrays the executive, the CEO of the company, who is diverted from her leadership tasks as she attempts to recover the “permanence code” thought to be remaining by the founder (the star).

The game Greta Lee feels she could survive in: “My children are really into Minecraft,” she states. “I would never want them to discover this, but [Minecraft] is so amazing, the realms that they create. I believe I would prefer to go onto one of the worlds that they've built. My little one has designed this one with creatures — it's just filled with birds, because he adores parrots.”

The actress's likelihood of endurance: Ninety percent. If she simply hangs out with her little ones' parrots, she's all good. But it's unknown whether she is aware of how to avoid or handle a Creeper.

Evan Peters

Part: Peters portrays the antagonist, the chief of competing company Dillinger Systems and descendant of the original character (David Warner) from the initial Tron.

The digital environment the actor feels he could survive in: “I certainly would absolutely lose in the [Disc Arena],” he said. “I would go into BioShock.” Elaborating on that answer to fellow actor the actress, he states, “It is such a excellent digital experience, it’s the best. BioShock, Fallout 3 and 4, remarkable dystopian environments in Fallout, and BioShock is an subterranean, run-down society.” Did he grasp the inquiry? Unknown.

The actor's likelihood of success: In BioShock? A low chance, comparable to any other average person's odds in Rapture. In any of the post-apocalyptic series? Ten percent, only based on his charisma rating.

Gillian Anderson

Role: Gillian Anderson portrays the mother, mother to the son and child to the original character. She’s the previous chief executive of Dillinger Systems, and a significantly level-headed director than the character.

The virtual world Anderson believes she could make it through: “Pong,” remarked Gillian Anderson, in spite of her obvious experience with the title Myst and her supporting part in the 1998 choose-your-own-adventure software The X-Files Game. “That is as sophisticated as I could handle. It would take so a while for the [ball] to arrive that I could move out of the way promptly before it arrived to strike me in the head.”

Gillian Anderson's probability of success: An even chance, depending on the simple essence of the game and whether receiving a blow by the pixel, or not hitting the ball back to the adversary, would be fatal. Also, it’s extremely gloomy in Pong — could she tumble from the arena to her demise? What does the dark abyss of the title affect a human?

The Filmmaker

Job: Joachim Rønning is the director of Tron: Ares. He also directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

The virtual world the director feels he could endure in: Tomb Raider. “I am a kid of the ’80s, so I was interested in the retro system and the Atari, but the first title that captivated me was the very first Tomb Raider on PlayStation,” Joachim Rønning says. “Being a film enthusiast — it was the original game that was so engaging, it was tactile. I'm uncertain that's the game I would really desire to be in, but that was my original incredible journey, at least.”

Joachim Rønning's chances of survival: A low chance. If Joachim Rønning was transported into a adventure world and had to deal with the creatures and {booby traps