Ready Player One Movie

[Juju EyeBall]

To go along with my prior response, there was one thing I was thinking about while listening to the book. Wouldn't there be some type of licensing issue if they tried to cover things in the book...onto the big screen? It is one thing to mention a show like Family Ties or Airwolf in a book, but isn't it another matter to show footage of such things in the movie? I think of shows like Miami Vice and WKRP...where they had trouble releasing them on DVD because they had to get permission to use the music that they used when originally aired.

I guess this is what I was getting at when I said I didn't recognize much in the trailer compared to the book. It's got to be a licensing nightmare. I'm afraid what we are going to see is a bunch of pastiche references to 80's stuff that is just different enough to for them to avoid having to pay anybody.

[T. Foster]

To go along with my prior response, there was one thing I was thinking about while listening to the book. Wouldn't there be some type of licensing issue if they tried to cover things in the book...onto the big screen? It is one thing to mention a show like Family Ties or Airwolf in a book, but isn't it another matter to show footage of such things in the movie? I think of shows like Miami Vice and WKRP...where they had trouble releasing them on DVD because they had to get permission to use the music that they used when originally aired.

Yes, but when you’re literally Steven Spielberg people are more likely to say yes. Also, with media ownership consolidation whatever studio is producing this (Warner?) surely has a lot of in-house IP they can license at reduced/nominal fees. So we can probably expect to see third-party IP traded out for in-house stuff (e.g. Freddy Krueger and The Iron Giant in the trailer, neither of which I remember being mentioned in the book but both of which are WB properties).

[MageInBlack]

Well, finished the book. Already seeing a bunch of inconsistencies...

First of all, I guess some of these things were meant to happen. For example, in the book Wade just stayed in his apartment and would rub that Nair hair removal cream on himself so he was bald and didn't have to worry about haircuts and such. He was also overweight and pale. He lost weight later on...but was still pale from lack of sun light.

So no one probably wants to watch a movie about a pale, bald kid playing an MMORPG the whole time.

Second, because he stayed in his apartment for most of the book, the producers thought this was boring like watching Tom Hanks talk to a volley ball. So they wrote the movie where the characters meet in person quicker. One scene has Wade and Artemis sitting together where Artemis says something like "welcome to the revolution". There wasn't anything about this in the book at all.



Third, the characters have been changed a bit. There is this Hannah John-Kamen actress playing someone called "F'Nale Zandor". I have no clue who that is. IMDB also lacks Daito and Shoto, so I don't know if they are being omitted from the movie or not.

Lastly, this was an enjoyable story for someone like me since I am filled with (what my wife calls a fountain of useless knowledge) 80's pop culture references and played many of the computers and game systems mentioned. The character of James Halliday was born about the same year as me so the timeline matches easier for sure. Except for the "lesson learned" in the end...or basically what Halliday warns Wade "not to do", the book kinda makes it sound like the author was writing a story saying how "never going outside and playing video games while absorbing television, music, and movies from the 70's and 80's isn't so bad since these are the people that won the contest". It is like an alcoholic writing a book about how the sober people died from a virus and the drunk people avoided catching it. So it pays to be an alcoholic...right?

I liked the part of the book where Wade was noticing weight gain and turned on his health settings on his OASIS console. He couldn't play on it unless his calorie intake was the appropriate amount. I wish some tech had this built in. Did you ever take away an iPhone from a kid for punishment. They act like you took their crack pipes away.

Not in the book. Had a different robot and he had to pilot it. He mentions seeing the Iron Giant in the choices, but no one ever chose it.


I have no clue what this is supposed to be since the story focused on Wade and he stayed in an apartment for months.


Not in the book. No racing anything. Just a mention of arena battles.


At least THIS was in the book. If this is the club he was invited to for finding the first key.


Sorento didn't walk the streets with a pistol. In fact, you never see this person either except on news feeds or his avatar in the OASIS.


Not in the book. Wade didn't do a Braveheart speech. He sent an email and posted on his blog.


Not in the book. Again...Wade never really left his apartment. He doesn't meet Artemis until the very end of the book.


Sorry...again...no racing and hence no Delorean.


I still plan to see the movie. I just hope they try to send the message that staying in a basement for most of your life...trying to get some artifact on World of Warcraft...may not be the best way to live your life. Play games for a bit...sure...but fucking go outside!

[Juju EyeBall]

Relevant?

[thedungeondelver]

Yeaaaaah...this is just Hunger Games/The Maze Runner redux. Leaning more towards pass, again.

[tacojohn4547]

Fuck You January...that's great DD!!

[francisca]

I haven't read the book, so I've got no dog in the race as to whether or not it is true to the book, but I will say, the trailer did not grab me in any way.

[Juju EyeBall]

Fuck You January...that's great DD!!

I fully endorse their channel,foul language and all.

[tacojohn4547]

Watched the trailer (finally). It seems to have more in common with Ender's War and virtually nothing to do with AD&D (that I could see).

[JCBoney]

Watched the trailer (finally). It seems to have more in common with Ender's War and virtually nothing to do with AD&D (that I could see).

People are over-emphasizing the AD&D element of the book. If you haven't read it, then the Tomb of Horrors plays out in a scene, but that's about it. The rest of the book touches on a ton of 70s/80s super-geek material, but there's not much AD&D involved, so there shouldn't be much in the movie either. If any at all.

[ThirstyStirge]

People are over-emphasizing the AD&D element of the book. If you haven't read it, then the Tomb of Horrors plays out in a scene, but that's about it. ...but there's not much AD&D involved, so there shouldn't be much in the movie either. If any at all.

I. AM. OUTRAGED!!!!!!

GRRRRR!!!!!!!



*temper-tantrum on the floor*

[MageInBlack]

There was the Tomb of Horrors level, a mention of modules and Dragon magazine in the chat room, and a planet called Gygax. The OASIS is separated into planets you travel to. So you could go to the planet Norrath and play Everquest, or to Azeroth and play WoW.

[ScottM]

Really enjoyed the book. Hoping the movie is better than the trailers seem. They have to put in some of the Tomb of Horrors scenes or it would be a total fail.