Steven Spielberg is one of history’s most exciting directors, having directed Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. His latest movie is Ready Player One and the trailer is filled with pop culture references!
Watch the trailer below:
Hawk-eyed viewers will notice that the song featured in the trailer is the song “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and that there are appearances from Harley Quinn and Deadshot, Gandalf, the Iron Giant, the DeLorean, Freddy Krueger, and more.
The film is an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel of the same name and is set in a dystopian future where man-made natural calamities have ravaged the earth. Most of the people are poor and their only way out is to play OASIS, a virtual reality game laden with ’80s pop culture references. Its developer, the late James Halliday, put puzzles in the game and whoever solves it will inherit the large fortune Halliday left, along with ownership of OASIS and its mother company. The lead, Wade Watts, attempts to win the game before the evil corporation IOI.
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan as Watts, Mark Rylance as Halliday, and Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento, the representative of the IOI.
The film is expected to premiere on March 30, 2018.
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