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Steven Spielberg To Direct Sci-Fi Cult Favorite ‘Ready Player One
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Man I love this book so much. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. I think it's really going to depend on

1) How good they can make the Oasis look
2) How much buy in they get from all the copyright owners. If they can't use most of the stuff it won't be nearly as good.

At a minimum they need to get the rights for the stuff used in the various gates: Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Zork, War Games, etc..

And that ideally all most of the Giant Robots.

Yes. The good news is that
Spielberg mean that they're not going to try to make it on the cheap.

Warren wrote: "Yes. The good news is that
Spielberg mean that they're not going to try to make it on the cheap."

That's a definite positive. On the other hand I feel like Spielberg's latest movies have all been ... overproduced is the word I want to use. (It's from the music industry, does it translate to film?) They feel like there's been put so much effort and money into it so that all the rough edges have been filed off to the point where they lack heart. Ready Player One needs heart if it is going to work IMO.

I have a feeling that I'll like the movie a lot more than the book. Isn't Spielberg mentioned in the book a few times? Meta.

It's kind of like how Wil Wheaton reads the audiobook in which he's also mentioned.

Good point.

Rob wrote: "Man I love this book so much. I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. I think it's really going to depend on
1) How good they can make the Oasis look."
Yep.That's probably the biggest challenge. I don't think that Spielberg has a totally blank slate to work with.

This should be a good movie if Spielberg actually directs it. He is excellent at directing Sci-fi films. However he has a bad tendency to drop his projects. Robopocalypse comes to mind.

And anyways he is busy till 2016 (The BFG scheduled to release on July 1, 2016). There is good chance he might drop this in the meantime.

This makes me giddy. I loved the book and have been deathly afraid of how the movie adaptation will turn out. Hiring Spielberg means they are at least going to give it an A+ effort instead of a piss poor on the cheap adaptation.

I think I kinda wish they wouldn't make a movie. I feel it is one of those things that is perfect the way it is and should be left alone because it just isn't going to be as good in any other medium.

I'm just not going to get my hopes up for the movie. That way I can be pleasantly surprised if it is good. And if it not good, I won't be disappointed, I'll avoid it, and I'll always have this incredibly fun and amazing book to read.

However, I am a Spielberg fan. He is a great director. So the movie has a lot going for it so far.

It's The Greatest Movie In The World! And it only costs a quarter.

Marketing would LOVE that. :)

Hossain wrote: "This should be a good movie if Spielberg actually directs it. He is excellent at directing Sci-fi films. However he has a bad tendency to drop his projects. Robopocalypse comes to mind."

Interstellar also coming to mind. He was originally suppose to direct that as well.

Dustin wrote: "It's The Greatest Movie In The World! And it only costs a quarter."

Yeah, but it's standing room only.