Ready Player One (film)

Ready Player One is an upcoming American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Ernest Cline, Eric Eason, and Zak Penn, based on Cline's novel of the same name. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, and T. J. Miller. The film is scheduled to be released on March 30, 2018.

On June 18, 2010, it was announced that Warner Bros. and De Line Pictures had won the auction from Paramount, Fox, and Temple Hill Entertainment of the film rights to the sci-fi novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, which was not yet published. Cline was set to write the script for the film, which Donald De Line and Dan Farah would produce.Eric Eason rewrote Cline's script, and Zak Penn was hired to rewrite the previous drafts by Cline and Eason. Village Roadshow Pictures came aboard to co-finance and co-produce the film with WB.Steven Spielberg signed on to direct and produce the film, which Kristie Macosko Krieger would also produce along with Line and Farah.

Three actresses were top-runners for the role of Art3mis: Elle Fanning, Olivia Cooke, and Lola Kirke; In September 2015, Cooke was announced as the female lead role.Ben Mendelsohn was cast in the film to play the villainous role as an executive for an Oasis designer Internet corporation.Tye Sheridan was confirmed for the lead role of Wade at the end of February 2016. In mid-March 2016, Simon Pegg entered final talks to join the cast in the role of Ogden Morrow, co-creator of the Oasis.Mark Rylance joined the cast as James Halliday, the creator of Oasis. In June 2016, T. J. Miller was cast in the film to play a bounty hunter,Hannah John-Kamen was cast for an unspecified supporting role, and Japanese singer-actor Win Morisaki was cast as Toshiro Yoshiaki, also known as Daito.