Warner Bros Pictures just released a new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One. The new trailer titled “Dreamer” reveals more of the world of the science fiction film which is based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline.
The cast is led by Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud) and includes Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Bates Motel), Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One – A Star Wars Story, Bloodline), and T.J. Miller (Deadpool, Silicon Valley). Simon Pegg (the Star Trek movies, the Mission: Impossible franchise) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk) also star in the much anticipated action adventure film.
Zak Penn and Ernest Cline wrote the script. Donald De Line, Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, and Dan Farah served as producers, with Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Chris deFaria and Bruce Berman executive producing. The behind the scenes team includes Janusz Kaminski as director of photography, Adam Stockhausen as production designer, Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar as editors, and Kasia Walicka Maimone as costume designer. Alan Silvestri (the Back to the Future films, Forrest Gump) composed the music.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment present in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Amblin Production, and De Line Pictures Production. Warner Bros Pictures has set a Thursday, March 29, 2018 theatrical release date.
The Plot: 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.
