First Set Photos and Video from Steven Spielberg's "Ready Player One"
Steven Spielberg arrives in Birmingham to begin filming 'Ready Player One'. https://t.co/dqGn7bYDtt #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/8VG5DzqetI
— Birmingham Updates (@BhamUpdates) August 16, 2016
In the book, and presumably the film, the world has been ravaged by an energy crisis, leading to widespread economic stagnation and all of the social problems that accompany poverty. The protagonist Wade Watts, when he's in the real world, is a poor orphan living in the "stacks" of Oklahoma City. Meanwhile, most of the action takes place in a virtual universe called OASIS, which will likely be mostly CGI.
Movie lights and set prop cars. It's all so glamorous!
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
(It couldn't be less glamorous)#ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/91DD86d3gR
Clapped out dystopian set prop car. Standard Digbeth backdrop. Great stuff #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/UPpnaByPuZ
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
More token video? Ohio registrations on dystopian US Postal trucks #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/PkzenxdFlg
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
Filming starts in Digbeth on Steven Spielberg's futuristic dystopian 'Ready Player One'. US postal truck on set. pic.twitter.com/ZNEvPvfNyh
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
More token video? Ohio registrations on dystopian US Postal trucks #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/PkzenxdFlg
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
Just been walking through the set of #StevenSpielberg film #ReadyPlayerOne ! pic.twitter.com/H6HAgcYOeT
— Charles Alexander (@CAlexander2291) August 16, 2016
The film stars X-Men's Tye Sheridan, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl breakout Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, and T. J. Miller. It will be directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay co-written by Ernest Cline, who wrote the original novel of the same name, X-Men veteran Zak Penn, and Eric Eason. It will be scored by the legendary John Williams, and feature a small cameo from nerd hero Wil Wheaton.
Ready Player One hits theaters on March 30, 2018.
