A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

(C)2018 Warner Home Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, and Amblin Entertainment On Tuesday, July 24, Warner Home Entertainment released director Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One on Blu-ray and DVD, three weeks after the digital download release and nearly four months after the theatrical premiere of this imaginative adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling 2011 novel of the same name. Director Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction action-adventure reveals a chaotic, collapsing world in the year 2045. Salvation lies in the OASIS, a fantastical virtual-reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday When Halliday dies, his immense fortune is left to the first person who can find a digital Easter egg hidden in the OASIS. Joining the hunt is unlikely hero Wade Watts, who is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending quest filled with mystery, discovery, and danger.  Although Warner Home Entertainment released Ready Player One in several dis...

On March 29, 2018, Warner Bros. released Ready Player One, director Steven Spielberg’s ambitious and visually stunning adaptation of Ernest Cline’s eponymous science fiction novel set in a dystopian near-future in which virtual reality and pop culture from the past are the only means of escape in a crumbling post-Information Age world. Co-written by Cline and Zak Penn ( The Last Action Hero ), Ready Player One combines live action sequences with immersive video game-inspired computer graphics – making this one of Spielberg’s most complex movies in his storied career. The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. ...