‘Ready Player One’ will defy your imagination

HOLLYWOOD, CA — From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure ‘Ready Player One,’ a film based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.

Opening on March 29 in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. This film has been rated PG-13.

In 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone—the only limits are your own imagination.

The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the OASIS to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends—called the High Five—are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world.

Three-time Oscar winner Spielberg (‘Schindler’s List’ [director & picture], and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ [director]) directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on the novel by Cline, which has spent more than 100 weeks on the The New York Times Best Sellers list and recently shot to #1.

‘Ready Player One’ was produced by Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg, and Dan Farah. Adam Somner, Daniel Lupi, Chris deFaria and Bruce Berman served as executive producers.

‘Ready Player One’ stars Tye Sheridan (‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ ‘Mud’), Olivia Cooke (‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ ‘Bates Motel’), Ben Mendelsohn (‘Rogue One – A Star Wars Story,’ ‘Bloodline’), Lena Waithe (‘Master of None’), T.J. Miller (‘Deadpool’), Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen (‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’), with Simon Pegg (‘Star Trek” and ‘Mission: Impossible’ movies) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (‘Bridge of Spies,’ ‘Dunkirk’).

Behind the scenes, Spielberg collaborated with Oscar-winning director of photography Janusz Kaminski (‘Schindler’s List,’ ‘Saving Private Ryan’), Oscar-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’), Oscar-winning editor Michael Kahn (‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’) and editor Sarah Broshar (‘The Post’), and Oscar-nominated costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone (‘Moonrise Kingdom’).

The score is by Oscar-nominated composer Alan Silvestri (the ‘Back to the Future’ films, ‘Forrest Gump’).

Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment present, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Amblin Production, a De Line Pictures Production, a Steven Spielberg Film, ‘Ready Player One.’