READY PLAYER ONE Soundtrack Details Revealed; Plus Listen To The Main Title Theme & Check Out Two New Posters
As we inch closer to the release of Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One, another pair of awesome new posters have made their way online. Plus, listen to the first track from Alan Silvestri's score!
While Steven Spielberg was unable to reunite with 5x Academy Award-winner and frequent collaborator John Williams for the Ready Player One: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack due to the latter's commitments to the Star Wars franchise, the legendary director did manage to team-up with another ace maestro: 2x Academy Award-nominee Alan Silvestri, who composed the iconic scores for Back to the Future, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Avengers.
In a statement given to Entertainment Weekly, Spielberg teased Silvestri's eagerly-awaited upcoming score, which he describes as an intoxicatingly original composition that, in a film filled to the brim with references, somewhat surprisingly doesn't feature too many familiar beats. "While all sorts of culturally iconic references populate Ready Player One, the score that Alan Silvestri composed is completely and intoxicatingly original. It’s bound together by multiple themes that identify plot and character and is infused by such percussive adrenaline and soaring strings that Alan has made Ready Player One appear to fly." Silvestri provided some additional insight, offering his mindset while composing the score and briefly detailing his experience working with one of the greatest directors of all-time. "An invitation to travel arrived just about a year ago, not just to a place, but to a time. Actually, to a number of times — primarily the year 2045, along with a few stops in the ’80s. A rather detailed map had been drawn by Ernest Cline and the Captain of the voyage, none other than Mr. Spielberg himself. What could one possibly do or say? Pencil in hand, one firmly fastens one’s seatbelt, says ‘Sir, Yes, Sir,’ and prepares for the trip of a lifetime."
WaterTower Music will release the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to download on digital platforms, including iTunes and Amazon, on March 30th. A limited edition two-CD version will then arrive in stores on April 6th, followed by a special double vinyl on July 19th. You can pre-order by heading HERE.
Check out the full tracklist below:
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The Oasis
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“Hello, I’m James Halliday”
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“Why Can’t We Go Backwards?”
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An Orb Meeting
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Real World Consequences
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Sorrento Makes An Offer
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Welcome To The Rebellion
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High 5 Assembles
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Orb of Osuvox
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Sorrento Punked
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Wade’s Broadcast
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Arty On The “Inside”
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Looking For A Truck
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She Never Left
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Last Chance
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“Get Me Out Of This”
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“Hold On To Something”
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“This Is Wrong”
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“What Are You?”
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“There’s Something I Need To Do”
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Ready Player One – Main Title
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Ready Player One – End Credits
Listen to the entire Main Title Theme below:
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).
Check out the new RealD 3D poster and the latest international poster below:
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