Steven Spielberg Enlists AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Composer Alan Silvestri To Score READY PLAYER ONE
In a surprising move, John Williams will not be scoring Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. He'll instead by replaced The Avengers & Captain America: The First Avenger composer Alan Silvestri!
Variety is reporting five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams will no longer be scoring Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. Scoring duties will instead be handed over to two-time Academy Award-nominee Alan Silvestri, best known for his work on The Avengers and Captain America: The First Avenger. He's also set to score Avengers: Infinity War next year and the untitled Avengers 4 in 2019.
Williams, who is currently hard at work scoring Star Wars: The Last Jedi, will reteam with Spielberg on The Papers, which will be their 28th collaboration.
In an official statement, Amblin Productions confirmed the composer change. “Steven and John decided Alan Silvestri was the perfect choice for ‘Ready Player One’ since Steven has worked (as a producer) with Alan on the ‘Back to the Future’ films in the ’80s and Alan has scored other films for Steven’s Amblin and DreamWorks.”
On another note, while Justice League and Aquaman may be the big ticket items at Warner Bros.' San Diego Comic-Con presentation, the studio is also planning on unveiling the eagerly awaited first look at Spielberg's next directorial venture, which almost definitely means we're getting the first official teaser trailer. Spielberg is expected to be in attendance, his first SDCC appearance since 2011, along with screenwriters Ernest Cline & Zak Penn and stars Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), and T.J. Miller (Deadpool 2).
Check out the first synopsis from WB's press release below:
About “Ready Player One” From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the science fiction action adventure “Ready Player One,” based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon. 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. 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 decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger. Spielberg directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline. The film was produced by Spielberg, Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Dan Farah; with Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Chris DeFaria and Bruce Berman serving as executive producers. It stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn and T.J. Miller, with Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance. Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment present, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Amblin Production, a De Line Pictures Production, a Steven Spielberg Film, “Ready Player One.” Slated for release on March 30, 2018, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.
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
Win Morisaki as Toshiro Yoshiaki/Daito
Philip Zhao as Akihide Karatsu/Shoto
Ready Player One logs into the OASIS on March 30