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Steven Spielberg is bringing Ernest Cline's book Ready Player One to the big screen. The famed director is currently filming in the UK, and here's a peek at the production.
Thanks to its endless references to 1980s video games, Ernest Cline’s 2011 book Ready Player One is hard not to like if you’re a gamer of a certain age. It makes for a rip-roaring read: the classic hero’s journey redone with Back to the Future shout-outs, Joust and John Hughes. And it’s soon to be a film, too: Steven Spielberg is scheduled to start shooting this summer, ahead of a March 2018 release date.
"It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen," Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One -- and a new book, Armada -- says of playing Space Invaders as a child in 1977. "I was suddenly drunk with power."
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