Ready Player One Casts its Wade
Steven Spielberg’s latest project ‘Ready Player One’ is based on a book by Ernest Cline, about a teenage boy in the future, 2044 to be exact, called Wade Watts who only feels at home logging on and playing his favorite game OASIS. This virtual world contains thousands of worlds within it and the currency in the game is the most table currency in the world. However when the creator dies he launches a contest with the winner receiving the creators real-life fortune and full control over OASIS. When Wade discovers the first clue in the contest he finds his life in danger, both in the real world and the virtual one and the race is on for the ultimate prize.
Ernest Cline has also wrote the screenplay for the movie and it now looks like Spielberg has found his Wade Watts in the shape of Tye Sheridan. Sheridan beat off thousands to land the role with casting taking the form of the usual agent submissions and also advertising it online leaving it open to anyone.
Tye joins Ben Mendelsohn and Olivia Cooke, who are both part of the project.
The movie is not set to hit theaters until December next year, so that gives you plenty of time to go and get the novel, it is a great read!
