"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage
Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known
as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden
within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's
obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power
and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue,
he finds himself beset by players (Gunters) willing to kill to take this
ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to
win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape."
Speaking to Collider, X-Men: Apocalypse's star Tye Sheridan who is playing Wade and
his in-game avatar Perzival in Ready Player One offered some details about the
film such as how much of it is spent inside the virtual world, and how close to
the novel Steven Spielberg is sticking to.
"60% of the film
takes place in this virtual video game and 40% takes place in the real world.
The idea of the film
— it’s established that this video game this virtual reality game is much more
glamorous than the real world; people have jobs inside of this game which is
called the OASIS, people spend their lives inside this video game. My character
is kind of this loser in the real world, but in this video game the creator of
the game dies and leaves behind an easter egg hidden inside of the game that
holds his trillions of dollars and control of the game and he says whoever
finds it in the game is the person who should take over the OASIS. So five
years go by, no one’s found the easter egg and — there are three keys in order
to get to the easter egg — he’s the first one to find the first key. So his
avatar becomes famous in the video game, where in the real world he’s still
kind of this loser, so he’s juggling both."
And speaking of his
avatar, Sheridan says that Spielberg turned to motion-capture to bring Perzival
to life.
"We shot for the
first seven, eight weeks in Mo-Cap. Everything that happens in The Oasis is all
shot in motion capture," Sheridan said before adding that the character's
design is still a mystery to him.
Based on the popular 2011
sci-fi novel written by Ernest Cline of the same name, Ready Player One also
stars Olivia Cooke, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Ben Mendelsohn, and
Hannah John-Kamen.
Ready Player One hits
theaters on March 30, 2018.
Source - Collider
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