Film News
Spielberg’s Ready Player One To Shoot in the UK
Spielberg’s Dystopian Sci-fi Comes to the UK
According to trade TV and Film website theknowledgeonline.co.uk, Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated feature film adaptation of Ready Player One is to shoot in the UK, with a summer shoot currently likely.
The director, who is just finishing off work on adapting Roald Dahl’s The BFG, will helm the production and joins a team comprising Donald De Line, Dan Farah and Kristie Macosko Krieger. It is very early days, with active pre-production not yet underway.
The film is an adaptation of the award-winning sci-fi dystopian novel by Ernest Cline. Set in 2045, the book centres on teenager Wade Watts and his devotion to a virtual utopia known as the OASIS, which contains thousands of different worlds.
Among the puzzles – which revolve around the creator’s fixation with past pop culture – and set within the virtual universe, is a vastly complex treasure hunt to find an egg. This search takes Watts on a dangerous and possibly deadly path as he sets out to win the power and wealth promised to the victor.
You must be logged in to post a comment Login