Ready Player One is coming to real life, and not everyone is on board. The 2011 sci-fi novel, which was adapted into a movie by Steven Spielberg in 2018, follows a young man named Wade Watts who lives in a dystopian America in 2045, where humanity seeks escape from a resource-depleted planet via a virtual reality platform called the OASIS. OASIS is a place where users can create their own worlds, many of which are inspired by popular movies and video games from the 1980s.
Per Variety, the company Futureverse announced that the newly formed Readyverse Studios (co-founded by Ready Player One author Ernest Cline and producer Dan Farah) is partnering with Warner Bros. Discovery to bring a version of the OASIS to the metaverse in 2024. While details about the intellectual properties and logistics involved are unknown, the company is describing it as “a multi-world, multi-IP, interoperable open metaverse experience.” However, fans online disagree about whether making the OASIS a reality is a good idea. Check out various social media fan reactions below:
RJ Palmer tweeted “I wish we had a word significantly stronger than ‘stupid’ for these kinds of people.”
Shoot the Sh*t concurred, saying “It’s like making Jurassic Park. Someone clearly missed the dystopian lesson…“
Sebastian expressed a similar concern, saying “Wasn’t Ready Player One a warning??? Lmao“
Erik Davis was less concerned, saying that “as long as I get to drive the DeLorean from Back to the Future, I’m in”
Skyla also shared concerns, saying “The way no one would play this because it’s so black mirror coded.”
hassan was more mixed, saying “Lowkey dope as hell but did we not learn from the movie tho.”
Socrateej shared a popular meme presenting a script saying “Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale, Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus“
More to come…
Ready Player One
Adapted from Ernest Cline’s novel of the same name, Ready Player One follows Wade Watts, an orphan who desperately wants to win a seemingly-impossible video game competition that would see him win ownership of the OASIS, a sophisticated virtual reality game that had revolutionized modern life. Helped by his friends and racing against time to find the hidden clues before the OASIS is claimed by an evil conglomerate, Wade’s love of the game is put to the test.
- Release Date
- March 29, 2018
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
- Cast
- T.J. Miller , Hannah John-Kamen , Lena Waithe , Mark Rylance , Mckenna Grace , Letitia Wright , Ben Mendelsohn , Ralph Ineson , Simon Pegg , Olivia Cooke , Tye Sheridan
- Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 2h 20m
- Genres
- Sci-Fi , Thriller , Action
- Writers
- Eric Eason , Zak Penn , Ernest Cline
- Budget
- 155–175 million
- Studio(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Distributor(s)
- Warner Bros. Pictures
