It introduces an upgrade to the Oasis interface technology right at the beginning. Ballantine BooksĬan you take us on a speed run of Ready Player Two’s plot and what readers can anticipate?įor fans of the first book, the story picks up nine days after the end of Ready Player One. The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Inverse connected with Cline to hear more about how he decided to plunge back into the Oasis, why technology’s march since the first book made this new project challenging, dealing with negative reviews, making movies with Spielberg, and an update on the film adaptation of Armada. But I can tell from the experience of making the first movie that everybody had a lot of fun.” “It’s in the early stages right now,” he says, “especially since Hollywood is in limbo right now. It’s a continuation of Wade Watts’ nostalgia-fueled journey that picks up shortly after his grand victory in the first book, with a dangerous new quest involving more ‘80s nostalgia puzzles and Easter Eggs hidden in The Oasis.Īccording to Cline, Ready Player Two the movie is already in the works. Now the Austin-based author and self-proclaimed video game nerd is back with the sequel to his 2011 debut novel with Ready Player Two. “Criticism, and really vitriolic criticism, is a side effect of massive success that I never imagined I would ever have,” says Cline.
29, 2018, Ready Player One cashed in on the book’s insane popularity by collecting $582 million worldwide and transporting audiences into the mind-warping domain of the Metaverse - even if the reviews were… mixed.
that are Steven Spielberg taking a cellphone photo of a paragraph from my book and then it would end up transposed directly into the script,” Cline tells Inverse. “I’ve seen these notes documents at Warner Bros. Cline even worked with Spielberg on the screenplay through several drafts before Zak Penn ( X2, Elektra) was recruited for rewrites, and he still looks back at those days as an incredible experience. With its virtual world treasure hunt pitting Gunters against Sixers to lay claim to eccentric genius James Halliday’s Gregarious Simulation Systems and its gazillion-dollar fortune, the geeky sci-fi novel became a global sensation, spending 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Īs expected, Cline’s hit novel attracted Hollywood’s attention, and Steven Spielberg signed on to direct the film project for Warner Bros. It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 10 years since Ernest Cline’s visionary pop culture confection, Ready Player One, introduced us to the immersive digital realm of The Oasis.
Video games are the only thing that make life bearable.” - Anorak’s Almanac, Ready Player One “Being human totally sucks most of the time.
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