READY PLAYER ONE: The Second Trailer For Steven Spielberg's Next CONFIRMED For Sunday; Check Out New Photos!

READY PLAYER ONE: The Second Trailer For Steven Spielberg's Next CONFIRMED For Sunday; Check Out New Photos!

It's official. The new theatrical trailer for Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is coming this Sunday! Plus, we have four awesome new photos from the upcoming sci-fi epic. Check them out!

By RohanPatel - Dec 08, 2017 04:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Ernie Cline
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline has confirmed that the eagerly-awaited theatrical trailer for Steven Spielberg' upcoming adaptation of his best-selling novel will be with us this Sunday, just in time to be attached to Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Last Jedi next weekend.

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, star Tye Sheridan hints at his different approach to playing the nobody-turned-legend Wade Watts and his OASIS avatar Parzival. “[Parzival] is a bit more confident than Wade. It’s a nice little contrast between who he is in the OASIS and who he is in the real world. When we first meet Parzival, he wins the first race and his avatar becomes this celebrity within the OASIS. But [Wade] is an outcast and an underdog in the real world, and no one knows that he’s actually Parzival. It’s almost like a Clark Kent thing, where he’s someone super, but no one knows about it.

Check out his tweet below:


Plus, Entertainment Weekly has released four new stills, check them out and learn more about what they mean below:

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Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) emerges from the abandoned van he uses as his headquarters and you can catch a glimpse of a number of cool Easter eggs, including the stationary bike he uses to generate power and several articles about his idol, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), whose challenge to locate three expertly-hidden keys - with the grand prize being his entire fortune - sets off the events in the novel.

 



Those familiar with the novel will immediately recognize this scene that looks like it was lifted directly from the pages of Cline's story as Watts watches his home in the Stacks get blown to Kingdom Come by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) and the IOI after Parzival (Sheridan) refuses his offer to join forces in the OASIS. Spielberg teases, “They do come after you, and that’s when our case spills over into the real world. Our major characters, they are in mortal jeopardy.

 



Here's our first real look at Watts in the OASIS as his avatar Parzival, whose name as you may have guessed is inspired by Percival, one of the knights of Arthur's round table. You may even recognize the sword on his back if you look closely enough. The photo reveals Parzival doing some research, watching archival footage of Halliday and Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg) developing the virtual reality world. He's joined by an OASIS librarian, The Curator, on his left and Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the warrior-goddess heroine of the story, on his right. 

 



Honestly, this is actually a borderline major spoiler from the novel, but it looks like the movie may be opting to go in a different direction with Art3mis' real-world identity and appearance. Here we see her looking on in horror as a bunch of people in the real world engage in an epic online battle. Cooke explains, "My character has stumbled on to the street where she’s seeing all of these people in their work clothes, all ages, all ethnicities who are getting together and locked in their visors. They’re having a huge war, this rampage. We’re starting to see people are more locked into their phones than looking up and interacting with people. In 2045, there is world famine, there is world war, and the cost of a plane ticket, travel, and of living life to a high standard in reality has gotten so exorbitant that the only form of escape for them is to log into an alternate reality.
 
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 Art3mis
Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento
Simon Pegg as Ogden "Og" Morrow
Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday/Anorak
T.J. Miller as i-R0k
Hannah John-Kamen in an undisclosed role
Lena Waithe as Aech

Win Morisaki as Toshiro Yoshiaki/Daito
Philip Zhao as Akihide Karatsu/Shoto
Ralph Ineson as Rick
Letitia Wright as Reb


Ready Player One logs into the OASIS on March 30
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DeadWade213
DeadWade213 - 12/8/2017, 4:28 PM
I think this film is going to blow our minds in ways we don't expect at all.
grif
grif - 12/8/2017, 5:29 PM
@DeadWade213 - what ways would those be?
Kumkani
Kumkani - 12/8/2017, 4:37 PM
I've never read the novel but I'm so excited for this. Looks absolutely crazy
TomSolo
TomSolo - 12/8/2017, 4:37 PM
This book had everything going for it, and then I realized it was little more than ‘Member Berries and macguffins. I can’t believe I am saying this, but I hope the movie does not follow the book. It was like Philip K. Dick written by a mediocre 7th grade writer with a boner for the 80’s. And I lived through that era and played almost every game mentioned in the book and played on a lot of the computers and consoles mentioned in it, and it was not enough to trick me into thinking this book was anything more than nostalgia porn.

Maybe Speilberg can do something interesting with this swill.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/8/2017, 4:47 PM
@TomSolo - the references come first in Ready Player One. Take that away, and there's not much left. The characters are thin.

I enjoyed it at first but after a second read you notice how weakly written it is.

The book is simply trying to get a base acknowledgment of recognition from his audience with every 80s refetence it can spew.
Katharis
Katharis - 12/8/2017, 6:01 PM
@TomSolo - I liked the comment but disagree; it is, plain and simple, a mcguffin chase set in a distopia. It has the "trials" elements, the companions. It is, indeed, a very simple story... And I don't see anything wrong with that.

It is no masterpiece, but I am glad I read it.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/8/2017, 4:38 PM
NOSTALGIA FOR EVERYONE!!!!
Buscema
Buscema - 12/8/2017, 4:38 PM
Cyclops wannabe ...
MrPositive
MrPositive - 12/8/2017, 4:40 PM
@Buscema - I love me some sarcasm
Kyos
Kyos - 12/8/2017, 4:51 PM
I'm really not sure about Parzival and Art3mis in this. The movie should be quite enjoyable nonetheless. Lots of opportunities for crazy visuals and fanservice-y pop culture stuff. I liked the book quite a bit, even though it didn't exactly blow me away.
Kyos
Kyos - 12/8/2017, 4:54 PM
My first and biggest problem with the book was probably that I found it completely unrealistic that in a program like that Wade would get a username like 'Parzival'. ^^'
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 12/8/2017, 4:58 PM
I've seen the first trailer on the big screen twice and I always get chills. The score gets me every time.
CornBred
CornBred - 12/8/2017, 5:09 PM
If this is anything like the particular draft of the script of this movie...yikes.
Odin
Odin - 12/8/2017, 5:09 PM
This is going to be that early spring hit which surprises everyone in 2018. We always get that nowadays; Kingsman, Deadpool, Logan and now this.
SmellofDuty
SmellofDuty - 12/8/2017, 5:44 PM
I read the novel two years ago. All in all, I wasn’t that impressed. I did like a lot of it though. But i feel there was too much pandering to teenage sensibilities. I’m glad to see that there are some changes being made. But, even if Spielberg had made a straight adaptation, he still would’ve knocked it out of the park.
BlindAl9
BlindAl9 - 12/8/2017, 5:48 PM
I'm looking forward for this. Hopefully the movie will blow our mind
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