Warner Bros. has secured
acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg to their highly anticipated adaptation of author
Ernest Cline popular sci-fi book, Ready Player One, which takes place in the year 2044 and follows a teenager
called Wade Watts, who only really feels alive when he's jacked into the virtual
utopia known as the OASIS, created by James Halliday. There, Wade tries to
do what no other player has been able to, find and decipher all the 80's pop
culture clues left behind by the game creator, and win the big prize, OASIS
itself.
Ready Player One will be a conundrum,
inside a riddle, inside a problem, inside a massive headache. The book is
filled, and I mean filled with specific references to the 80's, from The
Goonies, Back to the Future, Gremlins, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Atari, Voltron,
Christian Slater, The Amazing Spider-Man, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc, etc, etc,
(do you want to know more?), which in a book is fine, but when you translate it
to film, then all of a sudden you have to deal with rights, and in this case
lots, and lots or rights, some of which they might not get.
X-Men: The Last Stand, and
The Avengers scribe Zak Penn wrote the latest draft after taking over the
duties from Cline, and Eric Eason (A Better Life).
It's unclear when the
director will actually tackle Ready Player One since his M.O. is to become
attached to multiple projects and then let them stew until he thinks they are
ready. Remember Robopocalypse?
Source - Deadline
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