InSteven Spielberg’sReady Player One,Arnold Schwarzenegger’s underratedLast Action Herohas become a bona fide feature franchise … at least in the OASIS where everything and anything is possible. We know this because a movie theater marquee in a brand new trailer for the highly anticipated film reads simply, “Schwarzenegger - Jack Slater III.” This is a world I want to live in now and it makes our own world, where Jack Slater is a once-and-done action hero, pale in comparison.
Oh and if it’s Easter eggs like this you like–or nods to popular gaming titles likeBorderlands,Halo,Overwatchand evenDungeons & Dragons–you’re going to love this new trailer, if not the full-length movie, very, very much.
StarringTye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, andOlivia Cooke, Spielberg’sReady Player Oneopens March 29th.
Check out the newReady Player Onetrailer below:
The film is set in 2045, with the real world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But people have found salvation in the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday died, he left his immense fortune, and total control of the OASIS, to the first person to win three keys, unlocking the door to a digital Easter egg he hid somewhere in his seemingly infinite creation. His challenge launched a game that gripped the entire world, but after five years the scoreboard remained tauntingly empty…until now.
An unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)—under his avatar name, Parzival—finally conquers the first contest, instantly becoming a celebrity…and a target. Ruthless corporate mogul Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) proves he will stop at nothing to beat Wade and take over the OASIS, and suddenly the virtual stakes are all-too-real. Ultimately realizing he cannot win alone, Wade joins forces with his friends—now the High Five (Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki). Together, they are hurled into a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.
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