Put In The Konami Code Because The Full ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Is Game On
The only taste of Ready Player One we got recently was from Comic-Con earlier this year. It gave us the impression that a kid obsessed with the 80s uses a virtual world to explore his nerd fantasies. Are there a lot of references? Yes. Duh. The teaser was full of so many characters from popular culture that one could make a trailer breakdown to pick out all of the references (many have), but this trailer finally shows us the plot.
Premise: The film is set in 2045, with the world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But the people have found salvation in the OASIS, an expansive virtual reality universe created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS, sparking a contest that grips the entire world. When an unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) decides to join the contest, he is hurled into a breakneck, reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of mystery, discovery and danger.
The movie is like a huge MMORPG, but everyone in the entire world is playing to win $500 billion dollars. Obviously there will be evil people trying to kill you in the real-world as well as the virtual. So grab a Slice cola and jam some Van Halen, then transport yourself into the trailer below for Ready Player One:
Ready Player One is set to arrive in theaters on March 30, 2018.