READY PLAYER ONE Lands The Cover Of EW; Plus 15 New Photos, Two Posters And An IMAX Featurette

READY PLAYER ONE Lands The Cover Of EW; Plus 15 New Photos, Two Posters And An IMAX Featurette

Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One has landed the cover of this week's Entertainment Weekly. Plus, come check out fifteen new promotional stills, two new posters, and a sweet new IMAX featurette!

By RohanPatel - Mar 23, 2018 08:03 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Entertainment Weekly
As we inch closer to the release of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One on Wednesday night, Entertainment Weekly has revealed its exclusive cover, featuring Tye Sheridan standing front-and-center while plugged into the vast world of the OASIS. The trade has also released a whole batch of new details and photos from the eagerly-awaited film. 

Warner Bros. has also issued a new theatrical one-sheet, featuring all five members of the High Five standing tall, preparing to fight for not only their lives but for the entire fate of the world. A new banner has also been released with new images of all of your soon-to-be favorite characters.

Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Olivia Cooke (Thoroughbreds), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), Lena Waithe (Master of None), T.J. Miller (Deadpool 2), Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki (Kamen Rider), Hannah John-Kamen (Ant-Man and the Wasp), Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - Fallout) and Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies).

Watch the new IMAX featurette below:



To view every photo at once, simply click on the VIEW LIST (ONE PAGE) button below!

 


In a slight departure from the novel, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha Cook (Olivia Cook) are pictured sharing a tender moment in the real world. While Watts is a genuine geek, who is essentially just trying to win a game, Cook's reason for engaging in the hunt is to protect the future of humanity.

 


Watts and Cook in their badass OASIS avatars as Parzival (Tye Sheridan) and Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), respectively. While Wade's avatar is a considerable departure from his real-life persona, Samantha keeps one element from her real-life: the birthmark over her right eye.

 


Here's what's presumably a flashback sequence with James Halliday (Mark Rylance) and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg) introducing the world to the game-changing OASIS.

 


Anorak (Mark Rylance), James Halliday's OASIS avatar, explaining the rules of his epic Easter Egg hunt. He debuts all three keys - The Copper Key, The Jade Key, and The Crystal Key - and reveals the Grand Prize: the first person to collect all three keys will win both his fortune and ownership of the OASIS.

 


The High Five assembled. From left-to-right, Sho (Philip Zhao), Aech (Lena Waithe), Parzival (Tye Sheridan), Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), and Daito (Win Morisaki). They're seen here speaking to the Curator, in an effort to gain more insight into Jim Halliday's (Mark Rylance) life and upbringing.

 


This photo features another departure from the novel as four out of the five members of the High Five assemble in the real world. Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is plugged in while Samantha Cook (Olivia Cooke), Sho (Philip Zhao), and Daito (Win Morisaki) hang on inside of Helen's (Lena Waithe) delivery van. The scene sees Helen trying to drive them to safety with the IOI hot on their tails.

 


Unlike Wade (Tye Sheridan), who was living in the Stacks, Samantha (Olivia Cooke) was trapped in a high-tech debtor prison by the IOI after a series of unfortunate events. However, here we see that she's escaped and is now entering the OASIS through the control center of Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) at IOI headquarters. 

 


Technically, this meeting between Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and Helen (Lena Waithe) is a major book spoiler, but considering how movies need to be marketed, it's understandable that Spielberg decided to change things up a bit. Waithe shares a bit about the nature of her character, "[Aech] is sort of like Mr. T meets Michael Clarke Duncan meets Ice Cube meets Rambo."

 


A behind-the-scenes shot of the Steven Spielberg directing his two young stars, Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) and Olivia Cooke (Thoroughbreds). Also, if you look closely enough, you'll see Black Panther breakout Letitia Wright right behind the legendary filmmaker.

 


EW has also provided us with an in-depth look at Aech's intergalactic garage, revealing ten well-placed Easter Eggs from Ready Player One. The movies referenced include Spaceballs, Exosquad, Battlestar Galactica, RoboCop, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Cowboy Bebop, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and of, course, The Iron Giant.

You can read all about them HERE

 


(L-R) LENA WAITHE as Aech and TYE SHERIDAN as Parzival in Warner Bros. Pictures', Amblin Entertainment's and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "READY PLAYER ONE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

 


(L-R) LENA WAITHE as Aech and TYE SHERIDAN as Parzival in Warner Bros. Pictures', Amblin Entertainment's and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "READY PLAYER ONE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

 


(L-R) TYE SHERIDAN as Parzival and OLIVIA COOKE as Art3mis in Warner Bros. Pictures', Amblin Entertainment's and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "READY PLAYER ONE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

 


(Center L-R) Director/producer STEVEN SPIELBERG and TYE SHERIDAN on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures', Amblin Entertainment's and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "READY PLAYER ONE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

 


Director/producer STEVEN SPIELBERG on the set of Warner Bros. Pictures', Amblin Entertainment's and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "READY PLAYER ONE," a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

 


Check out this sweet new theatrical one-sheet for the movie as the High Five stand united.

 


Here's a new banner poster, featuring fresh shots of the principal cast as well as a pull quote from one of the many positive reviews.


The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.


Ready Player One features:
Director: Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts/Parzival
Olivia Cooke as Samantha "Sam" Cook/Art3mis
Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento/Sorrento
Simon Pegg as Ogden "Og" Morrow
Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday/Anorak
Lena Waithe as Helen Harris/Aech
Win Morisaki as Toshiro Yoshiaki/Daito
Philip Zhao as Akihide Karatsu/Shoto
Hannah John-Kamen as F'Nale Zandor
T.J. Miller as iR0k
Ralph Ineson as Rick
Letitia Wright as Reb
Mckenna Grace in an undisclosed role


Ready Player One logs into the OASIS on March 29


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jj2112
jj2112 - 3/23/2018, 8:21 PM
Ok bring on the negative comments guys.
TheRealTomServo
TheRealTomServo - 3/23/2018, 8:44 PM
@jj2112 - i’d be honored to.
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 3/24/2018, 4:45 AM
@jj2112 - I don't get why anyone would have any problem with this movie, but whatever. It just leaves more enjoyment for the rest of us. And it separates the geeks from the uber-geeks.
jj2112
jj2112 - 3/24/2018, 6:55 AM
@TheRealTomServo - Not what I'd expect from someone who likes MST3000 but to each their own I guess.
jj2112
jj2112 - 3/24/2018, 6:59 AM
@GwenLantern - Yup. The book was a fun read and I enjoyed the references, I don't understand the hate it gets. Then you read things like the (supposedly) great Southern Reach trilogy after the highly-praised Annihilation movie came out and find you're bored to tears.
TheRealTomServo
TheRealTomServo - 3/23/2018, 8:45 PM
JaKBaLLTV
JaKBaLLTV - 3/23/2018, 9:44 PM
@TheRealTomServo - SHHHUSSSHHH
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 3/23/2018, 9:04 PM
Lena Waithe's character resembles Korg.
JaKBaLLTV
JaKBaLLTV - 3/23/2018, 9:40 PM
more than 15 images, someone can't count too good?
GwenLantern
GwenLantern - 3/24/2018, 5:18 AM
I just can't wait to get my Gunter on for this flick.

It's not had much of a push, though. I keep looking for Merch and there is barely anything. I saw a pretty boring T-shirt (just the title logo for the movie) and there are the Funko Pops (just bought myself an Art3mis, yesterday), but nothing else. You think they'd at least have Ready Player One themed chocolate eggs out there for Easter.

Speaking of eggs, what are any of us hoping to see in the picture?

I'm personally gonna keep an eye out for two things, in particular:

1. A Lego Dimensions egg.

Given the similarities between Lego Dimensions and the Oasis and the fact that Warners own the rights to the franchise, I don't knwo how Ernest Cline could resist trying to fit something in there. A Lego Batman or Lord Vortech or something?
Both Lego Dimensions and the Oasis are virtual spaces that utilize a lot of licenses, mostly associated with geek culture and with a specific bent to the '80s. Pretty much everythimg in Lego Dimensions is Halliday canon. They even share some things with the Ready Player One movie, such as the Delorean and the Jurassic Park T-Rex. Hoping to see at least a little bit of Lego.

2. Rosebud.

From Citizen Kane. Does that sound odd?
It really shouldn't, given the similarities between the two films.
Check it out, which film am I describing here:

In the mid-'40s, a celebrated and enigmatic media mogul dies.
He dies at the beginning of the film.
His last words are a puzzle to be solved.
The protaganist spends the rest of the film trying to solve this puzzle via a library, three vital "keys" and eventually ends up at the media mogul's own elaborate, palacial home. During his investigation, he finds out more and more about the mind of the media mogul and what made him tick.

Is that Citizen Kane? Yes, it is. It is also Ready Player One.

And it turns out that what makes both Kane and Halliday tick is the nostalgia for his a piece of his childhood represented by, in Halliday's case all the things he loved, video games, toys, films, cartons, etc. For Kane it was just one thing; Rosebud.

And Speilberg OWNS Rosebud. I think Kane might be his favorite film, I'm not sure. It's certainly one of them. He owns the actual Rosebud prop from 1941!! I'm not sure if it's actually the one from Citizen Kane or the one from Hellzapoppin' (maybe it's the same prop in both films. I dunno "I thought they burnt" Rosebud at the end of Citizen Kane, maybe they didn't, who knows).

I also couldn't help but be reminded of Citizen Kane when I saw Simon Pegg as Halliday's oldest friend made-up to look older, much in the same manner that Joseph Cotton, as Charlie Kane's oldest friend was also made-up to look old, in Citizen Kane.

Surely the similarities betwen the Oasis and Lego Dimensions has not escaped Cline's notice and surely the similarities between Citizen Kane and Ready Player One has not escaped Speilerg's notice.

So I'm keeping a lookout.
bobevanz
bobevanz - 3/24/2018, 8:12 AM
I have been to the promise land and it is good! No great!! Can't wait to see it again this week!! Eat it sux0rs
Chameleon
Chameleon - 3/24/2018, 8:14 AM
THIS MOVIE IS GOOD
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