Nostalgia Is a Matter of Life and Death in the Ready Player One Trailer
[contfnewc] Steven Spielberg, prolific veteran of the craft that he is, made two movies this year—th..
Steven Spielberg, prolific veteran of the craft that he is, made two movies this year—though we’ll have to wait a few months to see the second one. His Pentagon Papers drama The Post opens in theaters in just a few short weeks, and in March we’ll be treated to the project he actually completed shooting before starting on Ready Player One, an adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cyberpunk bestseller Ready Player One.
In the newest trailer that premiered Sunday morning, we’re introduced to a dystopian future in which the human population is at an all-time high, strangling the world’s cities and forcing everyone to build up instead of out, creating precariously-crafted apartment towers that house the residents of the year 2045. There’s nowhere left to go, Tye Sheridan’s Wade Watts explains, except one place.
Welcome to the ’80s—I mean, the OASIS.
The OASIS was created by a programming mastermind and serves as a getaway for the youth of the future who are just looking for a place where they can be the most idealized versions of themselves. The OASIS’s creator was also a huge fan of classic pop culture from the 1980s and ’90s, and when he dies he creates a scavenger hunt of clues and references from the era—Easter eggs—for the OASIS’s inhabitants to find. Whoever finds the final clue will inherit the entire virtual world. It’s a temptation way too good for Wade to pass up. The only problem is, he’s not the only one hunting clues. If you can believe it, the movie’s newest trailer contains even more blink-and-you’ll-miss-it references than the first one, from DeLoreans to Iron Giants to Overwatch characters.
Ready Player One opens in theaters March 30, 2018.
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