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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-mark-rylance

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Think You Know What Happens in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One? Think Again

"I'd say the film is very faithful to the book, but also an original story. There will always be something new with Steven," Rylance told V.F. at the premiere of his latest film, Dunkirk, in New York on Tuesday. "The book has a lot of puzzles and keys that the characters have to figure out, and Steven has introduced new puzzles and keys so that the people who read the book will still not know how it's going to work out. It's a marvelous story with twists and turns and many thrilling moments."

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Do people just feel the need to put their own spin on things? If anything it sounds like this is just going to turn more people off. The book, as is, is wonderful.

MW03 said:

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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-mark-rylance

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Think You Know What Happens in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One? Think Again

"I'd say the film is very faithful to the book, but also an original story. There will always be something new with Steven," Rylance told V.F. at the premiere of his latest film, Dunkirk, in New York on Tuesday. "The book has a lot of puzzles and keys that the characters have to figure out, and Steven has introduced new puzzles and keys so that the people who read the book will still not know how it's going to work out. It's a marvelous story with twists and turns and many thrilling moments."

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Interesting development. Part of me is sad about them not sticking to the book, but part of me is excited to see what Spielberg comes up with. The gates/keys were one of the coolest parts of the book so being taken on a different adventure so to speak is intriguing.

MW03 said:

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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-mark-rylance

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Think You Know What Happens in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One? Think Again

"I'd say the film is very faithful to the book, but also an original story. There will always be something new with Steven," Rylance told V.F. at the premiere of his latest film, Dunkirk, in New York on Tuesday. "The book has a lot of puzzles and keys that the characters have to figure out, and Steven has introduced new puzzles and keys so that the people who read the book will still not know how it's going to work out. It's a marvelous story with twists and turns and many thrilling moments."

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Aliens. He's brining aliens into it.

Seriously this means all the 80s references are gone.

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MW03 said:

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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-mark-rylance

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Think You Know What Happens in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One? Think Again

"I'd say the film is very faithful to the book, but also an original story. There will always be something new with Steven," Rylance told V.F. at the premiere of his latest film, Dunkirk, in New York on Tuesday. "The book has a lot of puzzles and keys that the characters have to figure out, and Steven has introduced new puzzles and keys so that the people who read the book will still not know how it's going to work out. It's a marvelous story with twists and turns and many thrilling moments."

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Aliens. He's brining aliens into it.

Seriously this means all the 80s references are gone.

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That is sad.

There is no way they could fit this book into a movie in its original form. It would feel rushed and every big moment would fee unearned. You either amend the book to fit the format, or you create a steaming pile of trash. They need to get the feel of the book, and the basic story premises right, the details they can play with.

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MW03 said:

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http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/ready-player-one-steven-spielberg-mark-rylance

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Think You Know What Happens in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One? Think Again

"I'd say the film is very faithful to the book, but also an original story. There will always be something new with Steven," Rylance told V.F. at the premiere of his latest film, Dunkirk, in New York on Tuesday. "The book has a lot of puzzles and keys that the characters have to figure out, and Steven has introduced new puzzles and keys so that the people who read the book will still not know how it's going to work out. It's a marvelous story with twists and turns and many thrilling moments."

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Interesting development. Part of me is sad about them not sticking to the book, but part of me is excited to see what Spielberg comes up with. The gates/keys were one of the coolest parts of the book so being taken on a different adventure so to speak is intriguing.

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And what's more, there's a lot of this book that couldn't translate well. Couldn't get the spoiler tag to work.

The 80s references were what made this book so great. Without that, it's a stupid story.

Just a reminder, Steven Spielberg is doing the movie. I'm okay with any references he may have access to place into the movie in lieu of some of the other scenes from the book.

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There is no way they could fit this book into a movie in its original form. It would feel rushed and every big moment would fee unearned. You either amend the book to fit the format, or you create a steaming pile of trash. They need to get the feel of the book, and the basic story premises right, the details they can play with.

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Bingo.

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The 80s references were what made this book so great. Without that, it's a stupid story.

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Sadly, the target audience was born after 1990....

amercer said:

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Unthought Known said:

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The 80s references were what made this book so great. Without that, it's a stupid story.

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Sadly, the target audience was born after 1990....

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Really?

I'm half joking, but 15-27 year olds must be a big target for any sci fi / action flick.

Same target audience that took in stranger things.

Yeah I'm not worried about the 80's references. Geek culture is super popular nowadays. If they don't Nickelodeon it up too much, this has a chance to be wildly successful.

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Yeah I'm not worried about the 80's references. Geek culture is super popular nowadays. If they don't Nickelodeon it up too much, this has a chance to be wildly successful.

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I know 80s geek culture. I don't know modern.

So where the hell is the trailer???!!

Comic-Con exclusive now. Tomorrow. Between 1:30 and 3:30 Central. Should be online at some point during that window.

Thanks! I picked up this book last week just because of the mad props from this and another thread. I'm very excited about this one and can't wait to see Spielberg work his magic.

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aggie1906 said:

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Do people just feel the need to put their own spin on things? If anything it sounds like this is just going to turn more people off. The book, as is, is wonderful.

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You have to understand how hard it is to write/structure a movie. For countless reasons, most books have to be changed for the screen. It's not just some ego trip on the part of the filmmakers.

Besides, Spielberg already did basically the same thing with a little movie called Jurassic Park. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until proven wrong.

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I agree completely with you....but having read the book, let me tell you if there was ever a book written to be adapted, it's this one.

Im not happy to read that news, but I'll hoping that quote is a bit off and what really happens is he adds some filler sections that serve secondary to the content of the book.

I also do agree if you did a strict copy that you'd need more source material to fill it out for a 2 hour movie, so that's what I'm hoping this will end up being.

It isn't souring me from seeing the movie or anything though. Still have very high hopes.

Spielberg takes the stage at Hall H. Footage (hopefully) dropping any minute now...

Footage just slayed. Twitter is losing its collective mind. Surely it'll be up here soon...

https://www.youtube.com/user/WarnerBrosPictures/videos

****, I'm so pumped

Man that looks great. You can see some of the adaptations already. I assume they subbed the iron giant for someones robot they get after the second gate.

That final battle may be epic

So awesome...


Spotted:

Deadpool/Deathstroke?
Harley Quinn
Freddie Kreuger
Voldemort on roids??
Iron Giant
Tron Light Cycle?
Delorean

anything else?

Apparently that Light Cycle thing is from Akira (which WB owns and is developing into a movie) and not Tron, but I've never read the former, so I'm not 100% sure. Unless there's a Tron cycle as well that I missed.

From my buddy I mentioned a few days ago, via text, who has been working on bits and pieces...

"This isn't even half the stuff I've seen. If anything these are the okay parts."

Sex Panther said:

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Voldemort on roids??

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Is that Aech?

TCTTS said:

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Apparently that Light Cycle thing is from Akira (which WB owns and is developing into a movie) and not Tron, but I've never read the former, so I'm not 100% sure. Unless there's a Tron cycle as well that I missed.

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Oh duh... How'd I miss that. I love Akira.

Definitely what it's from. They even did the most famous scene: