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
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| Screenwriter Zak Penn |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
Ki Hong Lee
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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