Ready Player One is an upcoming American science fiction action film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline, based on Cline's 2011 novel of the same name. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T. J. Miller, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance.
The film is scheduled to be released by Warner Bros. in the United States on March 29, 2018.
Warner Bros. and De Line Pictures won an auction for the rights to Ernest Cline's book Ready Player One in 2010, before it had been published.[16] Cline was set to write the script for the film, which Donald De Line and Dan Farah would produce.[16] Eric Eason rewrote Cline's script,[17] and Zak Penn was hired to rewrite the previous drafts by Cline and Eason. Village Roadshow Pictures came aboard to co-finance and co-produce the film with WB.[18] Steven Spielberg signed on to direct and produce the film, which Kristie Macosko Krieger would also produce along with De Line and Farah.[19] Ready One Player is Spielberg’s first action-fantasy film since The Adventures of Tintin in late 2011, and his first live-action adventure fantasy film since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008.[20]