It’s been two years since Warner Brothers won the heated auction for the screen rights to Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and it’ll be another two years before the movie comes out.
But people can’t stop talking about it, particularly guessing casting on the RP1 Facebook page (Jesse Eisenberg? Ellen Page? Robert Downey Jr.?) and speculating about how the movie will move between actual and virtual reality.
The only verified news about the movie is that Cline wrote the screenplay (he also wrote the script for the movie Fanboys) and Eric Eason is doing a script rewrite.
Cline recently talked a bit about the movie here:
“It has the kind of, uh, Inception level of visual creativity that you can go with. That’s why I’m really excited for the director to get hired. We’re still in the very early stages, but once the director comes on board and brings, like, whatever their visual, you know, whatever their vision is to the OASIS, I’m really excited what’s going to happen.”
Ready Player One comes out in paperback next month—check it out and start making your own predictions.
I could put the book down. It’s 1am and I finally finished it. I love this book. Can’t wait to see the movie.
absolutely amazing and nostalgic … the closer i got to the end the more upset i got that i would eventually have to stop reading it… took me to an amazing place in my imagination, or should i say, Ernie Cline’s imagination… thankyou so much for writing this
awesome book.
My daughters 5000 student freshman class @UMass, Amherst have to read this book over the summer. All the 80′s references, technology and lingo were easy for me, but I feel 18yr. olds will find it foreign. I found the book entertaining and sad. Sad that the apocalyptic, dismal world of Wade Watts could someday be a reality. And entertaining with the game like atmosphere, the friendships, and the semi love story. That whole man vs. machine thing keeps it all going as well.
The book was amazing, I can’t wait for the film adaptation. It is very refreshing to read a stand alone book that has a great plot and satisfying resolution. Books this epic are usually trilogies that stagnate in the middle and become repetitious and predictable (Hunger Games, Anyone?). RP1 brought more to the table in one book than most achieve in three, and I believe the movie will do the same.
I loved the book! I got to meet Ernest Cline at ArmadilloCon (Sci-Fi/Fantasy convention) in Austin, Texas last weekend. He spoke on a panel called “Fans in the Mainstream Media: The Big Bang Theory, The Guild, and More”. There was lots of talk about RP1 and Fanboys. I hope they let him stay true to his book. I’m looking forward to seeing this movie!
This book was absolutely amazing. It brought me back to when i was a kid playing lunar lander on my first computer, playing super mario bros on my old nintendo, or sonic the hedgehog on my sega game gear. I cant wait for the movie. And i cant wait to by my first immersion console either. LOL.
I’m only 24, so some of the references were lost on me (despite a decent knowledge of older games before my generation), but despite that, I still loved this book. I can honestly say that this book gave me the most visual experience I’ve ever had from reading, the world just built up in my head without a detail lost. Absolutely can’t wait for the movie.
I’m 41 and grew up in the 80`s going to the local arcade for hours each day.This book brought me back to my childhood. Loved every minute of it. Can’t wait to see the movie.
An amazingly addictive book. I read this faster than any book I have read in years. 12am, 1am, mornings, lunches, whenever I could get to it.
It was fun, adventurous and the main character was full of suprises and intelligence, one step ahead of the bad guys…
I only wish that it leant itself to a sequel. Who knows?? Wade reinvents the OASIS?
Mixed feelings here. Not sure why everything needs to be made into a movie. One of my favorite books ever, if past experience is any guide then the movie will completely fail to bring it to life.
Rare pre-release copy of Ready Player One up on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181009847841
My dad always brings the best books home room work, then forgets them at home when he leaves on business. Ready Player 1 was one of them. I finished it going,” MOVIE MOVIE MOVIE.” Robert downy Jr. and the kid from hugo (who is ender in the NEW enders game movie!!)