Several files found in Fortnite Battle Royale give us clues about an upcoming collaboration with the Tron saga. We tell you everything we know.
On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, several Fortnite Battle Royale files were decrypted. These files give us quite solid clues about the next collaboration that we will see in Season 5 of the Battle Pass of Fortnite Chapter 2: nothing more and nothing less than the Tron saga. We tell you everything we know about it just below:
Fortnite x Tron: everything we know
At around 12:00 p.m. CET on Wednesday, February 10, 2021, several files within Fortnite Battle Royale were decrypted. Specifically, those that refer to the portal codename Mainframe. These files are basically an image, and an audio track. Just below you have both items combined:
The mainframe portal files have just been decrypted. From the aesthetics and the music it seems that the next hunter will be a Tron character. # Fortnite # FortniteSeason5 pic.twitter.com/LLNc9SJwQA
– Rubén Martínez (@ruvenmb) February 10, 2021
Both the music and the image itself are very reminiscent of the Tron saga, owned by Disney, and whose most recent film was Tron: Legacy, released in theaters in 2010:
Sure enough, this is Tron. There is no room for doubt.
⬅️Left: Tron: Legacy (2010 film) image
➡️Right: Mainframe portal image within Fortnite. # Fortnite # FortniteSeason5 pic.twitter.com/0iPjMwQmvm– Rubén Martínez (@ruvenmb) February 10, 2021
Season 5 of the Fortnite Chapter 2 Battle Pass has hunting as its main theme. Agent Jonesy travels between different realities to recruit the best hunters from across the galaxy, as long as the Fortnite characters cannot escape the game. Each new character he recruits appears in a portal within the island of the video game, as has happened previously with Daryl Dixon and Michonne from The Walking Dead, or with the Predator, this “means of transport” being his way of arriving at the island. As we mentioned, the decrypted files belong to a portal that, at the time we write this news, has yet to appear within Fortnite.
Given the precedents, it is expected that Tron skins will arrive in Fortnite. We will inform you more fully as soon as we have more information about it.
What is Tron? What is this saga about?
Tron poster (1982 film)
According to Wikipedia, the Tron saga is a franchise that was created in 1982, with the release of the homonymous movie. In it, Kevin Flynn (played by actor Jeff Bridges) is a computer genius and video game developer who is trapped in a virtual world, and must escape from it by interacting with different programs.
Tron: Legacy (2010 film) poster
Its sequel, Tron: Legacy was released in 2010, and tells us the adventure of Sam (played by actor Garrett Hedlund), Kevin’s son, to rescue his father from the virtual world.
There is a third film in the works, called Tron: Ares, although for now not much is known about it beyond that actor Jared Leto will be the protagonist.
Sources: Wikipedia / Tron, Fortnite Battle Royale, own elaboration
