News > More on Tron: Disney selects Garrett Hedlund to star in the sequel

Garret Hedlund has been cast as the lead in the Tron sequel. Disney also considered Ryan Gosling, Chris Pine, and Michael Stahl-David for the role. According to The Hollywood Reporter despite Garret Hedlunds low profile he is considered to be on the cusp.

Hedlund, who made his debut in 2004's "Troy," has until now acted in larger ensemble pieces. He was one of the football players in Peter Berg's "Friday Night Lights," one of the foursome in the ensemble thriller "Four Brothers," a supporting player in the fantasy film "Eragon," and he appeared opposite Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman in "Georgia Rule."

Hedlund will play the lead, a man who finds himself pulled into the world of a computer and retracing the steps of a character from the original movie named Kevin Flynn.

Jeff Bridges is reprising the role of Flynn, who was a computer programmer but ended up as the CEO of a software corporation. Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett have also been cast in the project, which was known as "Tron 2" and "Tr2n" but is now going with the simple "Tron."