Screen Rant attended the Ready Player One press conference, where Steven Spielberg revealed some of the properties that they couldn’t get the rights to, such as Star Wars.
If Spielberg couldn’t get the rights to Star Wars for his film, no one can.
At that point, Ben Mendelsohn joked that Spielberg could’ve asked him for help getting the rights, since he starred in Gareth Edwards’ Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Spielberg also revealed that there were a few properties other than Star Wars that he and Krieger were unable to procure for the film.