Steven Spielberg to Direct Sci-Fi Cult Favorite ‘Ready Player One'

If you have read the sci-fi book Ready Player One, you understand how difficult it would be to bring the multiple virtual world experience to the big screen. Warner Bros. has an immediate solution to the problems by bringing in a first rate director who is no stranger to virtual scenarios and technical manipulation.

The book takes place in 2044 and follows the story of a virtual-reality game creator who offers up his entire company to the best player who can find an Easter egg in one of his many virtual worlds via a game called OASIS.

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Hasn't Spielberg been phoning it in for a number of years now?

Sounds like a shitty version of TRON.

Great book, highly recommend it. I hope he can do it justice. But I fear that the studio will make him change the story to appeal to a mass audience, loosing the heart of the book.

Is the main character a young boy?

Youn said:

Is the main character a young boy?

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Teenage. I grew up during the computer / arcade gaming craze of the 80's and this book really pays tribute to that era.

Here is the description from Amazon.
In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

It's going to be hard to have all of that copyrighted stuff be part of the movie. Either that or (more likely) they'll strip most of it out. The book is full of video game and movie references. It's a pretty good book, but I lived through a lot of pop culture from the book. Younger audiences might not like it as much.

It's a great book, at least if you grew up in the late 60's to late 80's and is a gamer and like rock music (not metal, rock).
I have a hard time seeing this being a good movie though unless you make it like 8 hours long or so, not possible to cut much out and still keep the experience, and they would need a voice-over as a lot of what happens is the main characters thoughts.

But, If they make it I will watch it as I love the book, not expecting much though.

kledar586 said:

Hasn't Spielberg been phoning it in for a number of years now?

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That's what I heard, and is actually common place now where the name is really just a brand that they slap on other people's work. Tarantino does that a lot, where he just sells his name to slap on stuff he has no involvement with really.

excellent book if you're familiar with the 80's era of gaming and culture, very entertaining storyline and characters.

will be hard to include majority of the books content though as it will require a truckload of licensing

I guess I need to read the book. As an 80's kid myself, I love this kind of stuff but damn... reading the plot synopsis it sounds like a terrible mashup of Hackers and Wreck it Ralph.