4 Big Reasons Spielberg Is The Best For Ready Player One

4 Big Reasons Spielberg Is Best For Ready Player One

Not long ago we were talking about a completely different high profile director to helm the 80s reference heavy movie Ready Player One. Not everyone was 100% on board with Christopher Nolan bringing the book by Ernest Cline to life on the screen. With the official announcement that it will be Stephen Spielberg in the director chair there are several reasons why this is a good thing if you are a fan of the book.

4.) He Is Working With A Powerful Script

Screenwriter Zak Penn

Author Ernest Cline

Zak Penn (Incredible Hulk, Avengers) has been collaborating for some time now with the Ready Player One writer Earnest Cline on this script and actually quite successfully. So successfully in fact the two decided to create an episode that went on the documentary series Signal to Noise. The episode was titled Atari: Game Over in which Cline and Penn explored their shared admiration for everything retro and gaming. They were the story behind the great treasure hunt that was the Atari landfill dig. Being such a labor of love for them with this screenplay Spielberg will have an easier time creating the amazing world that is the Oasis.

3.) He Has Always Been Cutting Edge

On Set Of Jaws

With a bulk of this story taking place in a virtual world the possibilities are endless as far as what style and technology he will use to create this movie. Going all they way back to Jaws in 1975 Spielberg has always been on the cutting edge of what technology can do and create on the big screen. He put an animitronic shark on screen and was able to sell it as real to a mass audience, something that just wasn't happening at the time. Sure there were movies like The Dark Crystal but nothing that was trying to imitate real life to the degree that Bruce did (Bruce is what the production team named the shark). As technology advanced Spielberg worked it into his movies. Jurassic Park, which won an Academy Award for visual effects in 1994, was another example of a leap in movie technology spearheaded by Spielberg. It will be very interesting to see what the next step in cinema technology is according to Spielberg.

2.) He Can Get The Rights

Pop-Culture Explosion

One of the biggest concerns fans have with turning the book into a film is all the pop culture references and whether or not Warner Brothers will be able to legally put them in the movie. If it isn't possible it will be incredibly difficult to accurately create the movie given it relies so heavily on those references. Lord of the Rings, Dune, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Ghostbusters, Space Invaders, Atari, Dungeons and Dragons, Robotron, Star Wars, Swordquest Series, Back to the Future, and the list goes on and on and on. This being a movie adaptation he isn't going to be able to cram all of the awesomeness of the book but I really think he can get the core of what the book is onscreen. As a bonus he bring with him the rights to all of his movies which are referenced in the book as well (Goonies especially).

1.) He Attracts Big Names

Now that Spielberg is attached to this movie Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars will be clamoring to audition for a role. No names have been officially attached but I'm going to go ahead and create my dream-team for these iconic roles.

Wade (Parzival)

Nicholas Hoult


Samantha (Art3mis)

Ellen Page


Aech

Dylan O’Brien


Helen Harris

Gabourey Sidibe


James Halliday

James Urbaniak


Ogden Morrow

Jeff Bridges


Nolan Sorrento

Kevin Spacey

Daito

Ki Hong Lee

Shoto

Ryan Potter

What's you dream cast for the movie? Sound out in the comments! If you haven't read the book check it out over here. We kinda gave it the #1 Book For Geeks Award. Ernest Cline also has another book coming out that you can check out over here.

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Ernest Cline’s ARMADA Receives it’s Long Awaited Release Date!

Ernest Cline’s ARMADA Receives it’s Long Awaited Release Date!

After months of speculation, Random House has finally announced the release date for author Ernest Cline’s follow-up to his debut novel Ready Player One. Beginning Wednesday, July 15, prepare to immerse yourself in the world of ARMADA.

Check out the Synopsis below, and guarantee yourself a copy by pre ordering through your favorite bookseller!

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF READY PLAYER ONE

It’s just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom—if he can make it that long without getting suspended again.

Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer.  

At first, Zack thinks he’s going crazy.

A minute later, he’s sure of it. Because the UFO he’s staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every night, a hugely popular online flight simulator called Armada—in which gamers just happen to be protecting the earth from alien invaders.  

But what Zack’s seeing is all too real. And his skills—as well as those of millions of gamers across the world—are going to be needed to save the earth from what’s about to befall it.

Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can’t help thinking of all the science-fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn’t something about this scenario seem a little too… familiar?

Armada is at once a rollicking, surprising thriller, a classic coming of age adventure, and an alien-invasion tale like nothing you’ve ever read before—one whose every page is infused with author Ernest Cline’s trademark pop-culture savvy.

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Until next time True Believers,

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