Entertainment Weekly has revealed a batch of new stills and behind the scenes images for the upcoming sci-fi fantasy Ready Player One featuring Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha Cook (Olivia Cooke), and their avatars Parzival and Art3mis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), Ogden “Og” Morrow (Simon Pegg), Anorak, the High Five, Diato (Win Morisaki), Shoto (Philip Zhao), Aech (Lena Waithe), and director Steven Spielberg; check them out here along with a new banner…
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Ready Player One 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 is set for release on March 30th, 2018 and sees Steven Spielberg (The BFG) directing a cast that includes Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse) as Parzival, Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) as Art3mis, Lena Waithe (Master of Nine) as Aech, Simon Pegg (Star Trek Beyond) as Ogden Morrow, Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) as Nolan Sorrento, T.J. Miller (Deadpool) as i-R0k, Hannah John-Kamen (Game of Thrones) as F’Nale Zandor, Win Morisaki as Diato, newcomer Philip Zhao as Shoto and Mark Rylance (The BFG) as James Halliday.
Photo Credit: Warner Bros.
Originally published March 24, 2018. Updated December 3, 2022.
