From music, to video
games, to technology, to fashion, to movies, and more, Ernest Cline's 2011 novel
ready Player One is an authentic treasure trove of 1980's pop culture facts and
references, so who better to direct such a daunting project than one of the
80's biggest icons, Steven Spielberg.
Speaking to USA
Today, the filmmaker revealed that he is more fascinated with the anti-social
component of Cline's tale of a society forced to live in a virtual world then
the plethora of 80s references, including his own. "I’m not making this
movie to remind people of my ‘80s movies. I may leave most of them out!"
Leaving out the
moments where he and his work are referenced don't really affect the end result
since the one thing the book has in spades are references.
The
world that Cline built isn't that different from our own and that it turns out
was what attracted Spielberg to the book, as according to him Ready Player One
is "a crystal ball into exactly what is going to be happening not in 30 or
40 years but in between 5 and 10 years from now, where a virtual world becomes
almost like a drug of choice and where we are spending more time in a
nonorganic space than we are breathing and eating and interacting in real life."
In Ready Player One, more than being a drug or way to
prevent people from coming outside to play, the virtual world is the only way
many can make a living and get an education since the world they inhabit has
been ravaged by constant wars and recessions, and that isn't lost on the
director who says that "this movie is going to show why it’s interesting not
living in the real world but what we’re missing by not," Spielberg adds. "It’s
a cautionary tale but it’s also a big rockin’ adventure movie, too."
Ready Player One
opens on December 15, 2017 with Olivia Cooke starring.
Source - USA Today
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