With these hurdles to overcome, it’s good that the Ready Player One movie is in the competent hands of a director like Steven Spielberg.
There’s also that little movie called E.T. One of the earliest choices Steven Spielberg made about the Ready Player One movie was to remove references to his own work, of which there are many.
The Ready Player One movie is still a long way off, but it’s been in development for years—even before Ernest Cline’s novel hit bookstores in 2011, it already had a movie deal in place.
This group includes the protagonist, Wade Watts, a poor kid from the Stacks, and the plot of the Ready Player One book follows his quest as he searches for the Easter Egg and clues, and the Ready Player One movie follows the same arc.