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).
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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