'Ready Player One' Movie Latest News: Steven Spielberg to Direct Upcoming Sci-Fi Film
After working on the movie adaptation of Roald Dahl's The BFG or "The Big Friendly Giant," Steven Spielberg is set to direct a science fiction film, this time an adaptation of the science fiction novel "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline. For the film, he will be working once again with Warner Bros. after a 14 year absence. His last project with Warner was the late Stanley Kubrick's "Artificial Intelligence" in 2001.
According to a report in The Guardian, the film will be "his first entry into futuristic territory since 2005's 'War of the Worlds'." In the 1970s and 1980s, he was known for directing science fiction films which dictated the look and feel of the genre during that period.
"Ready Player One" is a science fiction and dystopian novel authored by Ernest Cline and published in 2011. It is set in the year 2044 where people were caught up in a virtual reality utopia world called OASIS. The main character, Wade Watts is no different. Like other people, he is obsessed with find an Easter egg within OASIS. OASIS' late creator James Halliday had indicated in his last will that whoever finds the Easter egg will inherit his entire estate, including the management and control of OASIS itself.
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Wade's perseverance pays off and he is able to find the three keys that are needed to unlock the egg. The story follows Wade as he tries to protect himself and his friends from an unscrupulous group of villains who want to take full control over OASIS.
Zak Penn, according to a report in Deadline, wrote the latest revision of the script, after Cline and Eric Eason. Penn is known for his work on "X-Men: The Last Stand" and "The Avengers."
The report also cites how the film will depict the virtual reality world that the book talks about, given that recent technological developments is making virtual reality readily available and less expensive. If Warner Bros. could successfully bring in this new technology in this movie, it could change the way movies are made.
