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Movie Adaptations We’re Looking Forward to Watching in 2018

Ready Player One

Based on Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Release Date: March 30th
Cast to include: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller

Plot: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg.

Our thoughts: The past and the future are going to collide for a mind-melting adventure this spring! Have you SEEN the previews? Orcs and Akira and Overwatch and Deloreans, oh my! Steven Spielberg with bring us into an intense virtual world in the way only he can. We’re predicting even more amazing pop culture references and pure fun. Plus, the story is so perfectly timed as America fights to uphold net neutrality.

More on Ready Player One.

Buy the Ready Player One book.

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By Nat, the Geek Girl

Southern California native who likes movies, books (Shadowhunter Chronicles, NA, YA fantasy, Red Rising series), TV shows (The Sandman), and San Diego Comic-Con. I also like to write, but don't get to do much of that aside from on here. I fell into the BTS rabbit hole, and I refuse to leave.