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Ready Player One

Ready Player One

A better reality awaits.

20187.62h 20m

Overview

When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Directed by Steven Spielberg
Written by Ernest Cline, Zak Penn
Produced by Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko Krieger
Box OfficeBudget: $175.0MRevenue: $607.3M

Top Cast

Tye Sheridan

Tye Sheridan

Parzival / Wade

Olivia Cooke

Olivia Cooke

Art3mis / Samantha

Ben Mendelsohn

Ben Mendelsohn

Sorrento

Lena Waithe

Lena Waithe

Aech / Helen

T.J. Miller

T.J. Miller

I-R0k (voice)

Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg

Curator / Ogden Morrow

Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance

Anorak / Halliday

Philip Zhao

Philip Zhao

Sho

Win Morisaki

Win Morisaki

Daito

Hannah John-Kamen

Hannah John-Kamen

F'Nale Zandor

Themes & Keywords

futurebased on novel or bookvideo gamevirtual realitydystopianostalgialovefilm in filmevil corporationquest1980s2040sbased on young adult novelcolumbus, ohioinspirationalvrmmodystopian sci-fi

About Ready Player One

Ready Player One is a adventure, action, science fiction film released in 2018 exploring themes of future, based on novel or book, video game, virtual reality, dystopia, nostalgia. Directed by Steven Spielberg, it stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn. When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

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