When Steven Spielberg decided to adapt Ernest Cline's sci-fi fantasy novel, "Ready Player One," the book underwent critical reappraisal and the reception to the adaptation was mixed. There were good reasons for this to happen: Cline's novel, which was hailed as a heartfelt trip down nostalgia lane when it was first released, was now re-evaluated through the lens of toxic nerd culture that catered predominantly to straight, white males. Moreover, with the advent of Gamergate in early 2014, it became impossible to view Cline's vision as a harmless, escapist fantasy — instead, it read as an exhausting, hollow catalog of '80s pop culture trivia that promotes problematic gatekeeping. More importantly, it props up an escapist fantasy that is exclusionary, misogynistic, and deeply toxic.
Does Spielberg manage to improve upon these aspects in Cline's novel? For the most part, yes. Spielberg is the kind of director who rarely misses: while...
Does Spielberg manage to improve upon these aspects in Cline's novel? For the most part, yes. Spielberg is the kind of director who rarely misses: while...
- 11/26/2022
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Death’s door may just lead to the Internet. As the world continues to run out of burial space, a new option for memorializing loved ones presents itself: Nft designers are developing metaverse cemeteries.
On Thursday, Dec. 8th — the same day the New York Times wrote about a metaverse wedding — a group called Remember launched its first public sale of 5,000 commemorative “memorial stone” NFTs, starting with a batch of 1,500. According to Remember’s OpenSea shop page, each Nft is unique, “unlike traditional tombstones that share many similarities in size and color.
On Thursday, Dec. 8th — the same day the New York Times wrote about a metaverse wedding — a group called Remember launched its first public sale of 5,000 commemorative “memorial stone” NFTs, starting with a batch of 1,500. According to Remember’s OpenSea shop page, each Nft is unique, “unlike traditional tombstones that share many similarities in size and color.
- 12/11/2021
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
It doesn’t take long for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two to reunite gunter-turned-billionaire Wade Owen Watts with a vintage video game that holds a clue to a virtual scavenger hunt that will forever change the future of the digital, escapist Oasis. But after winning this particular game, Parzival (Wade’s Oasis alter ego) finds that he automatically starts over. Because of an extra life, he is given the option of playing through the game again, even though there are no surprises, simply to rack up extra points and because he can.
Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready Player One, Cline’s 2011 debut novel, delighted readers with its futuristic generation of gunters who had taken on all things 1980s with religious fervor in search of the Easter egg that would bequeath the Oasis, Willy Wonka-style, to one lucky player. The book also made some incisive...
Reading Ready Player Two feels a lot like that. Ready Player One, Cline’s 2011 debut novel, delighted readers with its futuristic generation of gunters who had taken on all things 1980s with religious fervor in search of the Easter egg that would bequeath the Oasis, Willy Wonka-style, to one lucky player. The book also made some incisive...
- 11/24/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Between Saving Private Ryan and Ready Player One—the critically acclaimed adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel—VFX supervisor Roger Guyett has been along for the ride on two of the most demanding projects of Steven Spielberg’s career.
An entirely different animal than the former picture—a 1998 war drama which won five Oscars—Ready Player Onewas “a really complicated movie to make.” Containing close to 1500 digital effects shots, the film was crafted through a “multi-tiered animation approach,” consisting of motion capture, more traditional keyframe animation techniques, and pure computer animation.
Set in a dystopian Columbus, Ohio in the year 2045, the adventure pic follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teenager coming of age at a time when people need an escape, and have found one in technology. It’s in the Oasis, a virtual reality software devised by James Halliday (Mark Rylance), that Wade can be whoever he wants to be.
An entirely different animal than the former picture—a 1998 war drama which won five Oscars—Ready Player Onewas “a really complicated movie to make.” Containing close to 1500 digital effects shots, the film was crafted through a “multi-tiered animation approach,” consisting of motion capture, more traditional keyframe animation techniques, and pure computer animation.
Set in a dystopian Columbus, Ohio in the year 2045, the adventure pic follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), an orphaned teenager coming of age at a time when people need an escape, and have found one in technology. It’s in the Oasis, a virtual reality software devised by James Halliday (Mark Rylance), that Wade can be whoever he wants to be.
- 2/6/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Steven Spielberg’s epic adventure Ready Player One is available on Digital Download now, and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray and DVD August 6th. Now you have the chance to win a copy of the film on Blu-ray, bundled with some awesome 80s classics! We’re giving away 3 bundles, containing Ready Player One, The Iron Giant, The Goonies and Gremlins.
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts truly feels alive is when he escapes to the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the Oasis, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone—the only limits are your own imagination. The Oasis was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday, who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir.
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts truly feels alive is when he escapes to the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the Oasis, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone—the only limits are your own imagination. The Oasis was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday, who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir.
- 7/23/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ready Player One burst out of nowhere and has become a beloved novel, already taught in schools around the country, making Ernest Cline a hero in the very pop culture the novel celebrates. He took his personal Golden Age and wrote an adventure celebrating the icons of the late 1970s and 1980s, the era when computers and video games changed the world, ushering in the Age of the Geek.
Of course it was going to be turned into a movie but the question is could any film essentially capture the brio of the novel, and could anyone secure all the rights necessary to populate the film with the very icons required to make the virtual world of the Oasis plausible? When Warner Bros. won the bidding war, they wisely turned it over to the one man whose name alone would help secure those rights as well as make a faithful film: Steven Spielberg.
Of course it was going to be turned into a movie but the question is could any film essentially capture the brio of the novel, and could anyone secure all the rights necessary to populate the film with the very icons required to make the virtual world of the Oasis plausible? When Warner Bros. won the bidding war, they wisely turned it over to the one man whose name alone would help secure those rights as well as make a faithful film: Steven Spielberg.
- 7/23/2018
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Lifelong gaming fan Steven Spielberg goes all-in for motion capture, with much different results than The Adventures of Tintin. It’s an ode to 1980s videogame fads and pop culture that could be re-titled ‘Astounding Adventures in Licensing.’ It’s Star Wars, Tron and Avatar mashed together for young teens, and more interesting than it ought to be.
Ready Player One
Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Warner Brothers Home Video
2018 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 140 min. / Street Date July 26, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 44.95
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen.
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen
Film Editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn
Original Music: Alan Silvestri
Written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on his novel
Produced by Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko, Steven Spielberg
Directed by Steven Spielberg
In early 1979 I was on the set...
Ready Player One
Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Warner Brothers Home Video
2018 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 140 min. / Street Date July 26, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 44.95
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen.
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen
Film Editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn
Original Music: Alan Silvestri
Written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on his novel
Produced by Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko, Steven Spielberg
Directed by Steven Spielberg
In early 1979 I was on the set...
- 7/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
For those of you looking to beat the heat and escape the dog days of summer, July’s VOD and digital slate of horror and sci-fi titles has got you more than covered. The month kicks off with nine different movies arriving on various platforms on July 3rd, including Another WolfCop, Ready Player One, Big Legend, Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare, Hover, and You Were Never Really Here, just to name a few.
July 10th is another busy release day, with The Lighthouse, Traffik, and Darkness Reigns all making their digital debuts, and then just a few days later, fans can check out The Devil’s Doorway, Siberia and The Night Eats the World on Friday the 13th. The month’s releases wrap up with Breaking In and Sunset Society on the 24th, and then 14 Cameras hits on July 27th.
Another WolfCop (Rlje Entertainment) – July 3rd
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July 10th is another busy release day, with The Lighthouse, Traffik, and Darkness Reigns all making their digital debuts, and then just a few days later, fans can check out The Devil’s Doorway, Siberia and The Night Eats the World on Friday the 13th. The month’s releases wrap up with Breaking In and Sunset Society on the 24th, and then 14 Cameras hits on July 27th.
Another WolfCop (Rlje Entertainment) – July 3rd
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- 6/29/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Burbank, CA, May 22 – Join an immersive virtual universe when Ready Player One arrives on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD. From Warner Bros. Pictures, Amblin Entertainment and Village Roadshow Pictures, along with filmmaker Steven Spielberg, comes the action adventure Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn. The ensemble cast also includes Lena Waithe (Master of None), T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Simon Pegg (the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies) and Oscar® winner Mark Rylance.
Three-time Oscar® winner Spielberg* directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline. It is based on the novel by Cline, which has now spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List,...
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn. The ensemble cast also includes Lena Waithe (Master of None), T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Simon Pegg (the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies) and Oscar® winner Mark Rylance.
Three-time Oscar® winner Spielberg* directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline. It is based on the novel by Cline, which has now spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers List,...
- 5/29/2018
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
Starting with “Close Encounter of the Third Kind” (1977), nine films directed by Steven Spielberg have earned Oscar nominations in Best Visual Effects. This year, with the CGI extravaganza “Ready Player One,” a 10th Spielberg picture is poised to contend in this category.
The film, based on Ernest Cline‘s eponymous novel, finds earth on the verge of collapse in the year 2045. Providing the human race a distraction is Oasis, a virtual reality universe created by the oddball James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Prior to his death, Halliday devised a three-part contest which, if won, will provide the lucky champion with Halliday’s fortune and exclusive control over Oasis. Among those competing for this glory is young wannabe-hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan). After Wade emerges the first conqueror of part one of the contest, he collaborates with friends on the dizzying journey to winning the remaining two parts.
Of the film’s visual effects,...
The film, based on Ernest Cline‘s eponymous novel, finds earth on the verge of collapse in the year 2045. Providing the human race a distraction is Oasis, a virtual reality universe created by the oddball James Halliday (Mark Rylance). Prior to his death, Halliday devised a three-part contest which, if won, will provide the lucky champion with Halliday’s fortune and exclusive control over Oasis. Among those competing for this glory is young wannabe-hero Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan). After Wade emerges the first conqueror of part one of the contest, he collaborates with friends on the dizzying journey to winning the remaining two parts.
Of the film’s visual effects,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
The following contains spoilers for “Ready Player One.”
As Ernest Cline and Zak Penn adapted “Ready Player One” into a Steven Spielberg movie, they wanted to create a sequence that featured a film within the film for one of the contests mounted by the Oasis founder James Halliday. They first proposed Rutger Hauer chasing the kids in a sequence reimagining the original Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”; Warners shot that down, as the studio was about to release “Blade Runner 2049.”
So Cline and Penn came up with another ’80s classic released by Warners from a world-class auteur, one revered by Spielberg: Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “The Shining.” They never thought Spielberg would agree to it. After all, Kubrick and Spielberg had been friends; when Kubrick finished shooting “The Shining” at London’s Elstree Studios, Spielberg took over the Overlook Hotel set to film the...
As Ernest Cline and Zak Penn adapted “Ready Player One” into a Steven Spielberg movie, they wanted to create a sequence that featured a film within the film for one of the contests mounted by the Oasis founder James Halliday. They first proposed Rutger Hauer chasing the kids in a sequence reimagining the original Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”; Warners shot that down, as the studio was about to release “Blade Runner 2049.”
So Cline and Penn came up with another ’80s classic released by Warners from a world-class auteur, one revered by Spielberg: Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “The Shining.” They never thought Spielberg would agree to it. After all, Kubrick and Spielberg had been friends; when Kubrick finished shooting “The Shining” at London’s Elstree Studios, Spielberg took over the Overlook Hotel set to film the...
- 4/4/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The following contains spoilers for “Ready Player One.”
As Ernest Cline and Zak Penn adapted “Ready Player One” into a Steven Spielberg movie, they wanted to create a sequence that featured a film within the film for one of the contests mounted by the Oasis founder James Halliday. They first proposed Rutger Hauer chasing the kids in a sequence reimagining the original Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”; Warners shot that down, as the studio was about to release “Blade Runner 2049.”
So Cline and Penn came up with another ’80s classic released by Warners from a world-class auteur, one revered by Spielberg: Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “The Shining.” They never thought Spielberg would agree to it. After all, Kubrick and Spielberg had been friends; when Kubrick finished shooting “The Shining” at London’s Elstree Studios, Spielberg took over the Overlook Hotel set to film the...
As Ernest Cline and Zak Penn adapted “Ready Player One” into a Steven Spielberg movie, they wanted to create a sequence that featured a film within the film for one of the contests mounted by the Oasis founder James Halliday. They first proposed Rutger Hauer chasing the kids in a sequence reimagining the original Ridley Scott “Blade Runner”; Warners shot that down, as the studio was about to release “Blade Runner 2049.”
So Cline and Penn came up with another ’80s classic released by Warners from a world-class auteur, one revered by Spielberg: Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic “The Shining.” They never thought Spielberg would agree to it. After all, Kubrick and Spielberg had been friends; when Kubrick finished shooting “The Shining” at London’s Elstree Studios, Spielberg took over the Overlook Hotel set to film the...
- 4/4/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Steven Spielberg Invented the Modern Blockbuster, but ‘Ready Player One’ Suggests He Might Regret It
Steven Spielberg is going to die. Hopefully not today or tomorrow or anytime soon, but at some point in the near-ish future — after more than five decades of projecting his soul directly onto movie screens — the bearded architect who built so much of the modern world’s collective imagination will fade into its collective memory. Considering that the increasingly prolific filmmaker has released two major studio features in just the last four months, it might seem a bit premature to speculate about Spielberg’s demise (or even his retirement), but the guy is 71 years old, and not even the gods can live forever.
More to the point, Spielberg has clearly started to think about this himself, the shadow of his own mortality creeping into his body of work. Case in point: “Ready Player One.”
While Spielberg’s sexagenarian years found him continuing to zero in on the themes that have...
More to the point, Spielberg has clearly started to think about this himself, the shadow of his own mortality creeping into his body of work. Case in point: “Ready Player One.”
While Spielberg’s sexagenarian years found him continuing to zero in on the themes that have...
- 4/3/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It seems that certain sectors of the Internet have already deemed Ready Player One as the worst film 2018 and “the death of creativity”, based mostly on the fact these keyboard cobras did not like some posters! Well, there you go, anyway, if you are up for pressing start on the latest big screen adventure from Steven Spielberg, join us as we enter the Oasis…
Set in a future society that is beset by economic and social problems, most of the globe instead opts to turn on their headset and enter the Oasis. A vast virtual world co-created by James Halliday (Mark Rylance) and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg) which allows you to live out the very limits of your imagination. Mountain climbing with Batman, sure. Racing your DeLorean against The A-Team’s Gmc Vandura, of course. Setting up a Piers Morgan fan club, ok maybe that’s a stretch. Point is,...
Set in a future society that is beset by economic and social problems, most of the globe instead opts to turn on their headset and enter the Oasis. A vast virtual world co-created by James Halliday (Mark Rylance) and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg) which allows you to live out the very limits of your imagination. Mountain climbing with Batman, sure. Racing your DeLorean against The A-Team’s Gmc Vandura, of course. Setting up a Piers Morgan fan club, ok maybe that’s a stretch. Point is,...
- 4/2/2018
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
[This story contains spoilers for Warner Bros.' Ready Player One.]
The following is the second monthly installment in a series of conversations between noted comics writer Alex de Campi (No Mercy, May Day) and agreeable Hollywood Reporter contributor Simon Abrams. This month's conversation concerns Ready Player One, director Steven Spielberg's new adaptation of Ernest Cline's hyper-popular science-fiction novel.
Like Cline's source material, Spielberg's movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager who likes to escape from his futuristic, economically depressed reality into the Oasis, a virtual reality world that's like the Matrix, only with more 1980s nostalgia. After James Halliday (Mark Rylance),...
The following is the second monthly installment in a series of conversations between noted comics writer Alex de Campi (No Mercy, May Day) and agreeable Hollywood Reporter contributor Simon Abrams. This month's conversation concerns Ready Player One, director Steven Spielberg's new adaptation of Ernest Cline's hyper-popular science-fiction novel.
Like Cline's source material, Spielberg's movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager who likes to escape from his futuristic, economically depressed reality into the Oasis, a virtual reality world that's like the Matrix, only with more 1980s nostalgia. After James Halliday (Mark Rylance),...
- 4/1/2018
- by Simon Abrams,Alex de Campi
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The virtual reality adventure sacrifices depth for chaotic genre pleasures
Based on Ernest Cline’s 2011 sci-fi bestseller, Steven Spielberg’s busy adaptation is metatextual in its fascination with the limits, loopholes and crossover points of the self-contained universes artists create. The year is 2045, and in the Stacks, a greying junkyard in Columbus, Ohio, humans reside in trailers but live in the Oasis, a fantastically detailed Technicolor virtual reality accessed through headsets and haptic suits. Before he died, its creator, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), planted an Easter egg in his virtual world. The first person to reach it – after finding three hidden keys and their clues – would inherit his fortune, as well as the Oasis itself. Leading the race is gamer geek Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) via his avatar Parzival, alongside his virtual friends, the orc-like Aech (whose real-world reveal I won’t spoil here) and Olivia Cooke’s Art3mis,...
Based on Ernest Cline’s 2011 sci-fi bestseller, Steven Spielberg’s busy adaptation is metatextual in its fascination with the limits, loopholes and crossover points of the self-contained universes artists create. The year is 2045, and in the Stacks, a greying junkyard in Columbus, Ohio, humans reside in trailers but live in the Oasis, a fantastically detailed Technicolor virtual reality accessed through headsets and haptic suits. Before he died, its creator, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), planted an Easter egg in his virtual world. The first person to reach it – after finding three hidden keys and their clues – would inherit his fortune, as well as the Oasis itself. Leading the race is gamer geek Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) via his avatar Parzival, alongside his virtual friends, the orc-like Aech (whose real-world reveal I won’t spoil here) and Olivia Cooke’s Art3mis,...
- 4/1/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
In the corner of my 10-year-old bedroom was an autographed picture of Freddy Krueger, a die-cast metal Voltron, and an overused Nintendo that could only be started when the right combination of maneuvers was conducted. That connection to the past continues to engage my participation in old-school video arcades, museums that recreate the mom-and-pop video stores of my childhood, and retro toy companies that reconstruct the characters I had epic battles with in the sandbox. Nostalgia is a powerful tool.
Steven Spielberg is solely responsible for many childhood memories for numerous film fans. It’s undeniable how much influence the director had on novelist Ernest Cline, who fashioned the book Ready Player One as an ode to popular culture and ultimately an ode to nostalgia.
The film adaptation of Ready Player One is composed to the edges with pop culture everything, literally everything you might possibly imagine from the video...
Steven Spielberg is solely responsible for many childhood memories for numerous film fans. It’s undeniable how much influence the director had on novelist Ernest Cline, who fashioned the book Ready Player One as an ode to popular culture and ultimately an ode to nostalgia.
The film adaptation of Ready Player One is composed to the edges with pop culture everything, literally everything you might possibly imagine from the video...
- 3/31/2018
- by Monte Yazzie
- DailyDead
Sneak Peek new homage comic book cover illustrations, supporting "Minority Report" director Steven Spielberg's live-action feature "Ready Player One", based on the 2011 science-fiction novel by Ernest Cline, opening March 29, 2018:
"...in the year 2044, the world has been gripped by an energy crisis from the depletion of fossil fuels...
"...causing widespread social problems and economic stagnation.
"To escape the decline their world is facing, people turn to the 'Oasis'...
"...a virtual reality simulator accessible by players using visors and 'haptic' technology, perfected by 'James Halliday'...
"...who, when he died, had announced in his will to the public that he had left an 'Easter Egg' inside Oasis and the first person to find it would inherit his entire fortune..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ready Player One"....
"...in the year 2044, the world has been gripped by an energy crisis from the depletion of fossil fuels...
"...causing widespread social problems and economic stagnation.
"To escape the decline their world is facing, people turn to the 'Oasis'...
"...a virtual reality simulator accessible by players using visors and 'haptic' technology, perfected by 'James Halliday'...
"...who, when he died, had announced in his will to the public that he had left an 'Easter Egg' inside Oasis and the first person to find it would inherit his entire fortune..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Ready Player One"....
- 3/31/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
MaryAnn’s quick take… A nightmare of nothingness, of empty, soulless wankery, that serves only to reassure male dorks that their pop-culture obsessions make them special, and will make cute girls like them. I’m “biast” (pro): mostly a big fan of Spielberg…
I’m “biast” (con): …but he’s faltering more often these days
I have read the source material (and I hate it)
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Oh, what a terrible dystopia. The year is 2045. Society is collapsing. Everybody is poor and desperate. Rule is seemingly by corporations, which distract the citizenry from their misery with digital circuses and drone-delivered pizza. The last hope for humanity: the benevolence of billionaires.
No, wait: that’s today. Bill Gates is trying to fix malaria, Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix public education, and...
I’m “biast” (con): …but he’s faltering more often these days
I have read the source material (and I hate it)
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Oh, what a terrible dystopia. The year is 2045. Society is collapsing. Everybody is poor and desperate. Rule is seemingly by corporations, which distract the citizenry from their misery with digital circuses and drone-delivered pizza. The last hope for humanity: the benevolence of billionaires.
No, wait: that’s today. Bill Gates is trying to fix malaria, Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix public education, and...
- 3/29/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Spielberg’s Virtual Reality pop-culture fest is now in cinemas and to get you in the mood here are a couple of featurettes.
Set in a dystopian future, where everyone spends most of their time in an advanced virtual reality video game, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) takes part in an epic quest to find an easter egg left by the game’s creator, the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance).
Check out the featurettes and let us know your thoughts below.
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Set in a dystopian future, where everyone spends most of their time in an advanced virtual reality video game, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) takes part in an epic quest to find an easter egg left by the game’s creator, the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance).
Check out the featurettes and let us know your thoughts below.
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- 3/29/2018
- by Tom Batt
- The Cultural Post
Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline's bestseller of the same name, premieres in theaters nationwide today—but did the beloved filmmaker do the novel justice? For those who haven't read Cline's story, published in 2011, here's a brief synopsis: Set in the year 2045, an orphaned 18-year-old named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) creates an aspirational avatar, Parzival, and ventures into the Oasis—an immersive virtual universe where everyone escapes reality. (Literally, everyone goes there to "live.") Before his death, the Oasis' creator, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), promised his entire fortune—and total control of his company!—to the winner of a...
- 3/29/2018
- E! Online
Ready Player One is an abomination of a novel, but it was never going to be that bad as a movie. If nothing else (and frankly, there may be nothing else), Steven Spielberg is an infinitely better director than Ernest Cline is a writer. For the auteurists out there, this film’s most obvious sibling in Spielberg’s oeuvre is Tintin, as it similarly exploits the unlimited, camera-less potential of all-cgi worlds for extraordinarily elaborate sequences. Anyone can do a long take, but not everyone will do a long take that pivots into a rapid zoom in on a subject. But Tintin is a supercharged Indiana Jones adventure; Ready Player One doesn’t merely up the scale but overcrowds itself. The scenes of millions of things happening at once are skillfully made, to be sure, but they’re still visually busy to the point of numbness instead of energization. The...
- 3/29/2018
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
Well, if ya’ can’t beat em’, join em’. Or exploit em’. And “piggy-back” on em’. An old adage, but that’s been the thinking of the movie studios whenever they’re threatened by other forms of entertainment. Too many folks are staying at home, listening to the radio, rather than filling the movie houses? Turn some of the big radio stars into movie stars (as with Jack Benny and Bob Hope) and make some films based on the popular radio series (as Columbia did with Blondie, which was based on the still-running newspaper comic strip). And what supplanted the radio as the preferred home-based entertainment? Television, adding visuals to keep the “bijou” neighborhood theatres empty. This time the studios offered gimmicks and enhancements that the then tiny screens couldn’t match: 3D, stereophonic sound, and Cinemascope, which lead to Cinerama, not to mention the tricks and tools spearheaded by...
- 3/28/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
David Crow Mike Cecchini Dec 11, 2018
We have seen the pop culture glory that is Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Repeatedly. So we're ready to dissect every geeky gem in it!
This article contains more Ready Player One spoilers than a Nintendo Player’s Guide walkthrough.
Ready Player One is now out on Blu-ray and HBO, and fans are basking in all of its easter egg glory. While Steven Spielberg was able to infuse a creative spark into the film that allowed it to stand on more than only pure nostalgia, there is no denying that the immediate hook of Ernest Cline’s novel and the subsequent Spielberg blockbuster is its cornucopia of movie references, video game easter eggs, and pop culture homages to all things ‘80s. The film might be set in 2045, but it’s good to know that the future is just as obsessed with Gen-x and Millennial culture as we are today!
We have seen the pop culture glory that is Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Repeatedly. So we're ready to dissect every geeky gem in it!
This article contains more Ready Player One spoilers than a Nintendo Player’s Guide walkthrough.
Ready Player One is now out on Blu-ray and HBO, and fans are basking in all of its easter egg glory. While Steven Spielberg was able to infuse a creative spark into the film that allowed it to stand on more than only pure nostalgia, there is no denying that the immediate hook of Ernest Cline’s novel and the subsequent Spielberg blockbuster is its cornucopia of movie references, video game easter eggs, and pop culture homages to all things ‘80s. The film might be set in 2045, but it’s good to know that the future is just as obsessed with Gen-x and Millennial culture as we are today!
- 3/28/2018
- Den of Geek
Anyone who read the novel Ready Player One knew that it both would make for a fun movie and also would be really hard to adapt. Jam packed with pop culture references and dense with callbacks, it could be overwhelming and one note in the wrong hands. Enter Steven Spielberg. This week, Ready Player One hits theaters and represents Spielberg having a ton of fun. He was the perfect choice to adapt Ernest Cline’s novel, elevating the enjoyable source material into a work of pop art. This is the most fun that any film has been so far in 2018. You’re watching a master at work, one who is loving every moment of this movie too. Trust me when I say, it shows. It’s an absolute blast. This epic takes place in the future, after society has come down a few pegs. Most people spend their free time getting away from it all,...
- 3/28/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
‘Ready Player One’: 16 Key Differences Between the Bestselling Book and Steven Spielberg’s New Movie
Ernest Cline’s bestselling novel “Ready Player One” takes America’s obsession with pop cultural references, the unstoppable push of technology, and an unlikely hero and combines them all up into a single vivid story. The movie doesn’t exactly require its audience to know the ins and outs of “Dungeons & Dragons,” but man, it can’t hurt.
It’s only appropriate that the movie version of the film, out later this week, was helmed by no less than Steven Spielberg, one of the biggest inspirations for Cline’s story. Of course, Spielberg has taken his own liberties with the material, though the creative spirit that informed Cline’s book is very much in evidence.
Set in the near-future, the film adaptation — written by Cline and Zak Penn — stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts (also known by his avatar name “Parvizal”), who spends most of his time inside a...
It’s only appropriate that the movie version of the film, out later this week, was helmed by no less than Steven Spielberg, one of the biggest inspirations for Cline’s story. Of course, Spielberg has taken his own liberties with the material, though the creative spirit that informed Cline’s book is very much in evidence.
Set in the near-future, the film adaptation — written by Cline and Zak Penn — stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts (also known by his avatar name “Parvizal”), who spends most of his time inside a...
- 3/28/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The gamer kid in Steven Spielberg lets his Vr freak flag fly in Ready Player One, a mindbending joyride that jacks you into a fantasia bursting with CGI wonders, dazzling cyperscapes mixed with live action, hidden Easter eggs and infinite pop-culture shoutouts to the 1980s. (Better brush up on everything from Alien to Zemeckis if you don’t want to be left behind.) The legendary director's aim in this go-for-broke adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 sci-fi novel, a geek touchstone, is to get you in the game, and it's a...
- 3/27/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Upon exiting the theater after Ready Player One, my immediate takeaway was that “they don’t make films like this anymore.” Based on the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One takes place in the near-future of 2045, a dystopian landscape where Earth has become ridden by global warming, overpopulation, and general economic stagnation. Because of this dilapidation, many chose to spend their days inside the virtual society/Mmorpg world of the Oasis. What soon follows is a hero’s journey with Ohio orphan Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) as he becomes the first player in five years to unlock part of the puzzle left by the Oasis’ creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) in his last will and testament. Stated in the will, the first one who unlocks...
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- 3/27/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Two of the unsung heroes of Steven Spielberg’s latest blockbuster Ready Player One, are young actors Win Morisaki and Philip Zhao, who play Daito and Sho, respectively. To mark the film’s release we sat down with the talented, entertaining duo.
We discussed with the pair the casting process and what it meant to them to be given a role of this nature – as well as how surreal it still is seeing their face up on the big screen. We also asked what their avatar name would be if they were to play in the Oasis, while Morisaki tells us which video game he excels at best.
Meanwhile Zhao tells us if acting is what he’d now like to do for a living, and Morisaki – a famous singer in Japan – explains whether he plans to continue mixing the two as he progresses in his career.
Watch the full interview below…...
We discussed with the pair the casting process and what it meant to them to be given a role of this nature – as well as how surreal it still is seeing their face up on the big screen. We also asked what their avatar name would be if they were to play in the Oasis, while Morisaki tells us which video game he excels at best.
Meanwhile Zhao tells us if acting is what he’d now like to do for a living, and Morisaki – a famous singer in Japan – explains whether he plans to continue mixing the two as he progresses in his career.
Watch the full interview below…...
- 3/26/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As we get closer to the release of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, we have some more stuff to share with you to keep the excitement flowing through your geek veins. There are two new posters and nine new photos that offer us more insight into the story that is set in this future version of the world.
I'm really excited and curious to see how this movie is received by audiences. I really hope that it succeeds. I personally thought it was an amazing film and it's one I'll probably watch over and over again in the theater.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first...
I'm really excited and curious to see how this movie is received by audiences. I really hope that it succeeds. I personally thought it was an amazing film and it's one I'll probably watch over and over again in the theater.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first...
- 3/23/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Stars: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Mark Rylance, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller | Written by Zak Penn, Ernest Cline | Directed by Steven Spielberg
An affectionate ode to ‘70s and ‘80s pop culture wrapped in a bold vision of a future where reality and unreality are no longer binary concepts, or an insufferable procession of cultural name-drops revelling unquestioningly in the echo-chamber of nostalgia? However you view Ernest Cline’s 2011 debut novel Ready Player One, it’s undoubtedly an impressive piece of world-building. And if you’re going to choose a filmmaker to realise that vision, you could do worse than Steven Spielberg. (I mean, he already tarted up a pretty limited novel by the name of Jaws…)
Cline’s text doesn’t admit to much of ‘80s produce being tacky and/or downright terrible, but that’s the point: the kids of 2044 are atavistically absorbing the inner joy of an old,...
An affectionate ode to ‘70s and ‘80s pop culture wrapped in a bold vision of a future where reality and unreality are no longer binary concepts, or an insufferable procession of cultural name-drops revelling unquestioningly in the echo-chamber of nostalgia? However you view Ernest Cline’s 2011 debut novel Ready Player One, it’s undoubtedly an impressive piece of world-building. And if you’re going to choose a filmmaker to realise that vision, you could do worse than Steven Spielberg. (I mean, he already tarted up a pretty limited novel by the name of Jaws…)
Cline’s text doesn’t admit to much of ‘80s produce being tacky and/or downright terrible, but that’s the point: the kids of 2044 are atavistically absorbing the inner joy of an old,...
- 3/21/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
Warner Bros. have released over 50 new images from Ready Player One, showcasing Steven Spielberg‘s return to blockbuster filmmaking. Based on the Earnest Kline novel of the same name, Ready Player One follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) as he navigates a virtual reality world dubbed “The Oasis” in search of Special “easter eggs” that will grant the user full control over the virtual environment. Ironically enough, the film was made using a combination of Vr and Motion Capture technology. Considering that the film is loaded with fourth-wall breaking easter-eggs, it will be interesting to see how Spielberg, along with long-time cinematographer Janusz Kaminski will handle the self- reverential nature of the source material.
Regardless, the screenplay Ready Player One was written by Cline and Zak Penn, and the film also stars Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, and Hannah John-Kamen.
Regardless, the screenplay Ready Player One was written by Cline and Zak Penn, and the film also stars Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, and Hannah John-Kamen.
- 3/21/2018
- by Taylor Salan
- Age of the Nerd
This evening the capital was visited by cinema royalty in the form of Steven Spielberg, as he and his cast walked the blue carpet for the European Premiere of Ready Player One. It is an unashamed 80s geek fest, perfect for Mr. Spielberg who adapted it from Ernest Cline’s best-selling book.
The film stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen, Susan Lynch, and Ralph Ineson.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were players one and two on the carpet this evening, here’s how they fared:
Ready Player One European Premiere Interviews
Ready Player One Synopsis
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies,...
The film stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen, Susan Lynch, and Ralph Ineson.
Colin Hart and Scott Davis were players one and two on the carpet this evening, here’s how they fared:
Ready Player One European Premiere Interviews
Ready Player One Synopsis
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies,...
- 3/19/2018
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Steven Spielberg returns to the silver screen just two months after his Oscar nominated drama The Post to present an adaption of Ernest Cline’s popular novel Ready Player One. It’s a tale gloriously steeped in nostalgia, and marks an ambitious undertaking for the venerable filmmaker, but it simply couldn’t have been left in more reliable hands. This is his domain, and unsurprisingly, what transpires is a magical cinematic experience.
Set in the year 2045, our story begins in Columbus, Ohio, where the world is now gripped with virtual reality, and in particular, a game entitled Oasis, started by the eccentric visionary James Halliday (Mark Rylance), which allows players to put on a pair of glasses and have them transported to a whole other world, where they navigate their way around as their avatar, making friends and enemies in this fictional landscape. For Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) it’s...
Set in the year 2045, our story begins in Columbus, Ohio, where the world is now gripped with virtual reality, and in particular, a game entitled Oasis, started by the eccentric visionary James Halliday (Mark Rylance), which allows players to put on a pair of glasses and have them transported to a whole other world, where they navigate their way around as their avatar, making friends and enemies in this fictional landscape. For Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) it’s...
- 3/19/2018
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Warner Bros. has released 60 photos from the highly anticipated Steven Spielberg film Ready Player One! Some of these photos offer us a first look at the avatars for T.J. Miller's i-R0k and Ben Mendelsohn's Sorrento. They also include new looks at Daito and Shoto. I also included a video featuring ten minutes of behind-the-scenes footage along with a list of companies that Warner Bros. was able to obtain a license from so they could use their characters in the movie.
Some of the photos are revealing, and offer story elements that previously haven't been revealed. They don't really spoil any plot points, but if you are familiar with the book, then there are some things that you'll certainly be excited to see. The video, however, does spoil a few things, but if you don't care about spoilers then watch it.
I can't wait for audiences to get to see this movie!
Some of the photos are revealing, and offer story elements that previously haven't been revealed. They don't really spoil any plot points, but if you are familiar with the book, then there are some things that you'll certainly be excited to see. The video, however, does spoil a few things, but if you don't care about spoilers then watch it.
I can't wait for audiences to get to see this movie!
- 3/19/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Opening on Friday, March 29 is Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Ready Player One. In the Vanity Fair review, Joanna Robinson says Steven Spielberg’s latest film, “is in every way a spiritual ode to the boy’s adventure genre he made so popular in the 80s. There is a heart beating at the center of The Goonies, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and more—but in Ready Player One, audiences will instead find a gleaming, digital, golden Easter egg.”
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon. In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the Oasis,...
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon. In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the Oasis,...
- 3/19/2018
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Warner Bros. wanted to give fans a taste of the music from Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, so they released the main title theme for the film. This theme was composed by Alan Silvestri, who also wrote the iconic theme for Back To The Future.
I really enjoyed the musical score of Ready Player One and Alan Silvestri brought a fresh and soaring sound that worked perfectly for this film that pays tribute to the history of geeky pop culture.
While talking to Entertainment Weekly, Silvestri expresses how excited he was that Spielberg invited him to come on this journey of epic geek culture.
"An invitation to travel arrived just about a year ago, not just to a place, but to a time. Actually, to a number of times — primarily the year 2045, along with a few stops in the ’80s. A rather detailed map had been drawn by Ernest Cline...
I really enjoyed the musical score of Ready Player One and Alan Silvestri brought a fresh and soaring sound that worked perfectly for this film that pays tribute to the history of geeky pop culture.
While talking to Entertainment Weekly, Silvestri expresses how excited he was that Spielberg invited him to come on this journey of epic geek culture.
"An invitation to travel arrived just about a year ago, not just to a place, but to a time. Actually, to a number of times — primarily the year 2045, along with a few stops in the ’80s. A rather detailed map had been drawn by Ernest Cline...
- 3/19/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
I finished up my reread of Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline — soon to be released as a major motion picture by Steven Spielberg — today on Twitter. (Part 1.) Here’s my commentary.
#ReadyPlayerOne, where we are: High-school dork Wade, who is secretly Incredibly Amazing, is now living in the Oasis mecca of Columbus, Ohio, as he attempts to solve the second puzzle in Internet billionaire madman James Halliday's online puzzle. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Chapter 17: Wade refuses to accept Art3mis's request for him to stop engaging with her, and we also learn that "most gunters [easter egg hunters] are male." So feminism has made no progress by the 2040s. Damn. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Oo, some transphobia, too! Fun. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Art3mis Again requests that Wade not contact her. But he does, becoming a pest on email. She gives in and they begin to correspond,...
#ReadyPlayerOne, where we are: High-school dork Wade, who is secretly Incredibly Amazing, is now living in the Oasis mecca of Columbus, Ohio, as he attempts to solve the second puzzle in Internet billionaire madman James Halliday's online puzzle. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Chapter 17: Wade refuses to accept Art3mis's request for him to stop engaging with her, and we also learn that "most gunters [easter egg hunters] are male." So feminism has made no progress by the 2040s. Damn. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Oo, some transphobia, too! Fun. #ReadyPlayerOneReread
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 18, 2018
Art3mis Again requests that Wade not contact her. But he does, becoming a pest on email. She gives in and they begin to correspond,...
- 3/18/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
My reread of Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline — soon to be released as a major motion picture by Steven Spielberg — commenced today on Twitter. (I’ll finish tomorrow.) Here’s how it’s gone down so far.
Ten-minute countdown to my #ReadyPlayerOne live-tweet reread. If you want to avoid potential spoilers for the movie, you might want to mute the hashtag #ReadyPlayerOneReread… pic.twitter.com/eMfOfMW2he
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 17, 2018
I shall be rereading #ReadyPlayerOne on my ancient Kindle. If you want to read along: Amazon Us [https://t.co/3wZ9Dn8h1R], Amazon Can [https://t.co/ccqOHTPGgn], and Amazon UK [https://t.co/WMZHkrriwy]. You don't need an actual Kindle: get the free Kindle app for lots of devices. pic.twitter.com/yJ6I6adxBa
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 17, 2018
(This Kindle has hung on for so long and has behaved like a real trooper, always, that this Twitter event is probably guaranteed to be the thing that finally kills it.
Ten-minute countdown to my #ReadyPlayerOne live-tweet reread. If you want to avoid potential spoilers for the movie, you might want to mute the hashtag #ReadyPlayerOneReread… pic.twitter.com/eMfOfMW2he
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 17, 2018
I shall be rereading #ReadyPlayerOne on my ancient Kindle. If you want to read along: Amazon Us [https://t.co/3wZ9Dn8h1R], Amazon Can [https://t.co/ccqOHTPGgn], and Amazon UK [https://t.co/WMZHkrriwy]. You don't need an actual Kindle: get the free Kindle app for lots of devices. pic.twitter.com/yJ6I6adxBa
— MaryAnn Johanson (@maryannjohanson) March 17, 2018
(This Kindle has hung on for so long and has behaved like a real trooper, always, that this Twitter event is probably guaranteed to be the thing that finally kills it.
- 3/17/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
“An adventure too big for the real world.”
Steven Spielberg’S sensational Ready Player One arrives in cinemas March 29 and we have a pair of tickets for you to win to see the film at the European Premiere on March 19.
Not only will you be able to watch this visually stunning movie ahead of its UK release, the film’s incredible cast, including Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn will be attending the exclusive star-studded event – as well as the living legend himself, Mr. Steven Spielberg.
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the science fiction action adventure “Ready Player One,” based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
The film is set in 2045, with the real world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But people have found salvation in the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where you can go anywhere, do anything,...
Steven Spielberg’S sensational Ready Player One arrives in cinemas March 29 and we have a pair of tickets for you to win to see the film at the European Premiere on March 19.
Not only will you be able to watch this visually stunning movie ahead of its UK release, the film’s incredible cast, including Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke and Ben Mendelsohn will be attending the exclusive star-studded event – as well as the living legend himself, Mr. Steven Spielberg.
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the science fiction action adventure “Ready Player One,” based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
The film is set in 2045, with the real world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But people have found salvation in the Oasis, an immersive virtual universe where you can go anywhere, do anything,...
- 3/16/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Steven Spielberg‘s long awaited adaptation of Ready Player One is less than two weeks away, and the film’s marketing blitz seems to be in full effect. Although Ready Player One recently saw it’s seemingly final trailer just a few days ago, there was one glaring omission that I completely missed: the lack of John Williams music. The film will mark only the second time in Spielberg’s illustrious career that Williams will not have scored one of his films.
Stepping in for Williams on this film is Alan Sylvestri, a long-time collaborator of Spielberg’s–but never on a film that he’s directed. This is surprising, considering that Silvesrri has been a mainstay of the Amblin family, composing scores for Back to the Future and Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?, as well as more recent scores such as the now-iconic Avengers theme.
Silvestri’s theme for the film,...
Stepping in for Williams on this film is Alan Sylvestri, a long-time collaborator of Spielberg’s–but never on a film that he’s directed. This is surprising, considering that Silvesrri has been a mainstay of the Amblin family, composing scores for Back to the Future and Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?, as well as more recent scores such as the now-iconic Avengers theme.
Silvestri’s theme for the film,...
- 3/16/2018
- by Taylor Salan
- Age of the Nerd
Based on the awesome book by Ernest Cline, sci-fi action thriller Ready Player One is the latest film from Steven Spielberg and stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
Ready Player One is set for release on March...
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
Ready Player One is set for release on March...
- 3/16/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Warner Bros. has released a final trailer for their impending adaptation of Ready Player One. The film has been touted as director Steven Spielberg‘s return to blockbuster filmmaking, and recently premiered to mostly critical acclaim at this year’s SXSW festival. We’ve seen a great deal of footage from the film in the past few months, but this trailer seems to reveal even more new footage that absolutely screams Spielberg, and completely revels in this. There’s too many references to count in this trailer, but my favorite one has to be from the long tracking shot in the middle of the trailer that points to Jurassic Park.
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and Olivia Cooke. The film is due in theaters March 29th, 2018, but here’s the new trailer to tide you over:
The film is set in...
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and Olivia Cooke. The film is due in theaters March 29th, 2018, but here’s the new trailer to tide you over:
The film is set in...
- 3/16/2018
- by Taylor Salan
- Age of the Nerd
Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) teams up with his competitor-turned-ally/crush Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) in the new trailer for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One.
Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, the author also wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn. As the trailer showcases, Watts and Art3mis live in a dystopian reality where the population's main escape is to the "virtual universe" of Oasis where "you can do anything, be anyone without going anywhere at all." Before Oasis creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) died,...
Based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ernest Cline, the author also wrote the screenplay with Zak Penn. As the trailer showcases, Watts and Art3mis live in a dystopian reality where the population's main escape is to the "virtual universe" of Oasis where "you can do anything, be anyone without going anywhere at all." Before Oasis creator James Halliday (Mark Rylance) died,...
- 3/16/2018
- Rollingstone.com
I can't wait to tell you what I thought about Ready Player One, but I can't yet! However, for those of you who are familiar with the kind of movies that I like, then I'm pretty sure you all know what I thought about the film. I just can't wait for all of you fellow movie geeks to get to experience this story for yourselves. You're in for quite an awesome ride and you have to see it on the biggest screen as you possibly can!
While you wait to watch the movie, a new trailer has been released called "Dreamer". Apparently, it's the last full trailer for the film that will be released, and I will say it's the best one yet. Even after seeing the movie, this trailer got me excited to watch it again!
One of the cool things about these trailer that have been released... they...
While you wait to watch the movie, a new trailer has been released called "Dreamer". Apparently, it's the last full trailer for the film that will be released, and I will say it's the best one yet. Even after seeing the movie, this trailer got me excited to watch it again!
One of the cool things about these trailer that have been released... they...
- 3/15/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
There’s a new trailer for Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on the best-selling book by Ernest Cline.
Set in a dystopian future, where everyone spends most of their time in an advanced virtual reality video game, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) takes part in an epic quest to find an easter egg left by the game’s creator, the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance).
Ready Player One will arrive in UK cinemas March 29th. Check out the trailer above and let us know your thoughts.
Set in a dystopian future, where everyone spends most of their time in an advanced virtual reality video game, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) takes part in an epic quest to find an easter egg left by the game’s creator, the late James Halliday (Mark Rylance).
Ready Player One will arrive in UK cinemas March 29th. Check out the trailer above and let us know your thoughts.
- 3/15/2018
- by Tom Batt
- The Cultural Post
"What part of your past as you trying to escape, Halliday?" Warner Bros has released one final trailer for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernie Cline's book Ready Player One, hitting theaters at the end of this month. This nostalgia-packed, sci-fi action epic just premiered at the SXSW Film Festival over the weekend, and tickets are available to buy now if you want to get them early. If you're planning to see this, you should know what to expect, a super-nerdy movie filled with references and throwbacks, which is the entire point of it. Young actor Tye Sheridan stars as Wade Watts, known in the Oasis gaming world as "Parzival". The full cast includes Mark Rylance as Oasis creator, James Halliday, as well as T.J. Miller, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Letitia Wright, and Kae Alexander. I'm honestly still very excited to see this movie, and I...
- 3/15/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The latest poster art for Ready Player One has been released, and it features The Iron Giant and Parzival holding up a boombox in an effort to pump up an army to save the Oasis. This is a Cinemark exclusive poster and will be handed out to fans who come to see the movie at their theaters.
Steven Spielberg's film recently premiered at SXSW and fans are loving it! I really hope that this movie does well and I'm really curious to see what audiences think of it when it's released. I think it will be yet another great Spielberg movie.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to...
Steven Spielberg's film recently premiered at SXSW and fans are loving it! I really hope that this movie does well and I'm really curious to see what audiences think of it when it's released. I think it will be yet another great Spielberg movie.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to...
- 3/15/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Based on the awesome book by Ernest Cline, sci-fi action thriller Ready Player One is the latest film from Steven Spielberg and stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance.
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
Ready Player One is set for release on March 29th 2018. This latest poster,...
The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the Oasis, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the Oasis, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
Ready Player One is set for release on March 29th 2018. This latest poster,...
- 3/15/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
For those of you who are excited to enter the Oasis in Steven Spielberg's upcoming film adaptation of Ready Player One, we've got a cool new piece of poster art for you to check out today! It has also been announced that tickets are now on sale.
The film recently premiered at SXSW and it was met with rave reviews from the majority of people in attendance. There are a few people there that I know personally and trust when it comes to their movie opinions and they loved it.
As you all know, I've been excited about this movie since it was first announced that Steven Spielberg was directing it. I've enjoyed everything that I've seen in the trailers, and not that it's actually getting good reviews, my expectations are exploding through the roof. Hopefully, the film actually lives up to them!
The film is set in 2045, with...
The film recently premiered at SXSW and it was met with rave reviews from the majority of people in attendance. There are a few people there that I know personally and trust when it comes to their movie opinions and they loved it.
As you all know, I've been excited about this movie since it was first announced that Steven Spielberg was directing it. I've enjoyed everything that I've seen in the trailers, and not that it's actually getting good reviews, my expectations are exploding through the roof. Hopefully, the film actually lives up to them!
The film is set in 2045, with...
- 3/14/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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