FIRST LOOK: Steven Spielberg’s new movie Ready Player One - ‘Willy Wonka meets The Matrix’
STEVEN SPIELBERG’S Ready Player One, starring Tye Sheridan, Simon Pegg, TJ Miller and Mark Rylance, has had its first set photos surface online.
The first set photos have leaked online
The film is based on Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, described by USA Today as “Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.
Set in a dystopian 2044, most of earth’s inhabitants spend their lives in a virtual utopia called the OASIS made up of 10,000 planets.
The sci-fi thriller follows teenager Wade Watts, a pop culture obsessive, as he launches on a quest left by the OASIS’s dead founder - a quest for a hidden egg that leads to his billion-dollar fortune.
The first set photos were leaked online yesterday revealing this futuristic world…
Steven Spielberg at The EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)
They're multiplying! Filming starts in Digbeth on Spielberg's Ready Player One. #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/rvOb6C6woq
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
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
2 dozen movie trailers suggests Hollywood stars on their way for filming of Spielberg's Ready Player One in Digbeth pic.twitter.com/zqvaRoVDk9
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
Filming has been taking place in Digbeth, part of central Birmingham in England, where the director was spotted.
The photos posted show a number of movie trailer for the various stars.
However most notable are the futuristic vehicles for this dystopian American future.
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
Clapped out dystopian set prop car. Standard Digbeth backdrop. Great stuff #ReadyPlayerOne pic.twitter.com/UPpnaByPuZ
— I Choose Birmingham (@ichoosemag) August 16, 2016
We already have many escapisms today in the form of movies, TV shows, video games and books, but this story is showing how far humanity can go.
Next year sees the release of Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, starring Rylance once again.
Then in 2019 fans will be treated his fifth Indiana Jones film with Harrison Ford.
Ready Player One will be released in UK cinemas March 30, 2018.