February 2, 2017

SPIELBERG'S RELEASE OF RP1

Video Game Treasure Hunt

Based on "Ready Player One," the first novel by "Fanboys" screenwriter Ernie Cline. In the near future, outcast teenager Wade Watts escapes from his bleak surroundings by logging in to the OASIS, a globally networked virtual utopia where users can lead idyllic alternate lives. When the eccentric billionaire who created the OASIS dies, he offers up his vast fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt. Along with gamers from around the world, Wade joins the adventure, and quickly finds himself pitted against powerful corporate foes and other ruthless competitors who will do anything, in the oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.

The Ready Player One movie cast includes Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cook, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, TJ Miller and Ben Mendelsohn.

"Ready Player One is one of those rare novels that gave me an ache of loss whenever I had to stop reading. Having lived through the 80's...and owned (and still have) an Atari personal computer, the entire world of Ready Player One was something very dear to me. Ernest Cline's interweaving of games like Zork, Pac Man and the dozens of others was a great walk down memory lane. I'm not sure how Spielberg will be able to condense the book into one movie - good luck with that one!" - RCS

A Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures production, the Ready Player One movie is being directed by Spielberg, who is also producing alongside Donald De Line, under his De Line Pictures banner, Dan Farah and Kristie Macosko Krieger. Bruce Berman will serve as executive producer.

Dodge the Empire

Ready Player One was moved from a December 17, 2017 release to the March 30th date to avoid the box office, black hole suction of Star Wars Episode VIII.