BRIDGE OF SPIES Star Mark Rylance Joins Steven Spielberg's READY PLAYER ONE
Fresh off an Academy Award win, Bridge Of Spies star Mark Rylance has signed up to play a key role in another Steven Spielberg-led project - the highly anticipated Ready Player One. Come check it out!
The OASIS has found its creator.
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) is currently in final talks to join the cast of Steven Spielberg's next directorial venture - Ready Player One. He'll portray James Donovan Halliday, the enigmatic creator of the OASIS, whose death sets off the events in the popular Ernert Cline novel, i.e. the competition to find Halliday's hidden Easter Egg.
This news marks the fourth consecutive collaboration between Spielberg and Rylance, which started with his Academy Award-winning turn in Bridge Of Spies. He'll be seen next as the titular character in The B.F.G., which is due out this July, and also recently signed on to play Pope Pius IX in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which will be Spielberg's follow-up to Ready Player One.
Rylance joins an impressive cast headlined by X-Men: Apocalypse star Tye Sheridan, and includes Olivia Cooke (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), and Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation). Production on the film will kick off this summer with June being the target date, and THR adds that it won't interfere with Rylance's commitments to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.
So, what do you guys think of Rylance's casting? Sound off with your thoughts below!
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.
Ready Player One features:
Director: Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts/Parzival
Olivia Cooke as Samantha Evelyn Cook/Art3mis
Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento
Simon Pegg as Ogden "Og" Morrow
Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday
Ready Player One logs into the OASIS on March 30, 2018