After years of rumours and rumblings of a new Tron movie, now comes word that the picture is finally happening.

Via Deadline, Disney is at early work on a new Tron offering which will be directed by Lion’s Garth Davis. Not only that, but, as previously speculated, Jared Leto will headline the movie.

From what we can tell, this film will be a straight-up third Tron movie that will follow in the footsteps of 1982’s Tron and 2010’s Tron: Legacy. At several points over the past decade, Legacy director Joseph Kosinski claimed that a sequel to that film would happen at some point, and the last few years saw Leto linked to that sequel.

While Kosinski won’t be involved in this third Tron, we now know that Leto will be.

In that ’82 original, Jeff Bridges’ Kevin Flynn is a computer programmer who ends up transported to a world inside a hugely powerful computer. When Flynn is unable to get out of this world, the 2010 Tron: Legacy found Garett Hedland playing Flynn’s son Sam as he looks to try and find his old man.

Tron: Legacy may not have quite got the universal praise of the first movie, but we’ll be damned if Legacy wasn’t a visual delight with an absolutely gorgeous soundtrack to accompany its action.

There were tentative plans to follow Legacy will a sequel shortly after its release, but Disney pulled back on that call after that movie and George Clooney’s Tomorrowland underperformed at the box office.

Finally getting a third Tron film? With the technological possibilities presented here in 2020? Consider us hugely intrigued by this.

Interestingly, Leto took to Twitter to seemingly reveal the title of Tron: Ares for this new movie – although that post was quickly deleted.