First look at the eagerly anticipated 'Ready Player One' shows Spielberg has got it spot on!


Although we're in the middle of the blockbuster movie season, with major films such as Spider-Man: Homecoming and War of the Planet of the Apes, and Baby Driver thrilling cinema audiences worldwide, the biggest movie story to emerge concerns a film not out for almost another year.

Ready Player One is one of the most eagerly anticipated films for 2018 (can't get much better than the magician of a director Spielberg and the young sensation that is Tye Sheridan) . Not only is it based on the hugely popular novel by Ernest Cline and starring one of my favourite young talents of the last couple of years, it is also being directed by Steven Spielberg, his first major sci-fi movie since War of the Worlds in 2005.

The 2012 book and therefore movie, are set in 2044 where the world has been ravaged by climate change, poverty, famine and other man-made disasters (obviously). The population, therefore, take to VW to live happier lives inside a virtual world, and when the chance to win control over that virtuascape and a vast fortune come knocking on lead character Wade Watts' life, it changes things forever.

There are also plenty of nods to 80s pop culture along the way.


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