Ernest Cline

Mark Rylance is close to pushing the start button on Ready Player One at Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow. The Oscar-winning Bridge of Spies actor is in negotiations for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel.

Tye Sheridan has landed the coveted lead role in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ready Player One. Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, and DreamWorks are collaborating to make the film based on the bestselling novel by Ernest Cline.

Steven Spielberg has found his villain for the feature adaptation Ready Player One offering the role of the main antagonist to Ben Mendelsohn. He would star opposite Olivia Cooke who was previously cast as the female lead.

The indie starlet is in talks to play a virtual treasure hunt in Steven Spielberg’s next directing project

Zack Lightman learns that the Space Invaders-like video game he’s been playing is actually real, as he is recruited for his talents by an international galactic army to defend Earth.

The “Interstellar” director may take on some problems closer to home.

Scribe gets repped.

Logline: Kept under wraps but said to focus around “the ultimate wish fulfillment to every videogame fan on the planet”.

Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.

Logline: Story centers on a teenager named Wade Watts who escapes his bleak surrounds by logging into Oasis, a globally networked virtual utopia where users lead idyllic alternate lives. When the game’s eccentric billionaire creator dies, he offers up his fortune as the prize in an elaborate treasure hunt, one that leaves Watts pitted against powerful corporate foes and several ruthless competitors who’ll do anything, in the Oasis or the real world, to reach the treasure first.

Logline: Four die-hard Star Wars fans drive across the country to fulfill a friend’s dying wish, a sneak peak of “Episode 1: Phantom Menace.”