Mark Rylance Ready Player One: British actor joins Steven Spielberg’s next. Will be the third time they’ve teamed.
Academy Award winning actor Mark Rylance has officially joined the cast of Ready Player One, reuniting him with his Bridge Of Spies and The B.F.G. director Steven Spielberg. More on the Mark Rylance Ready Player One casting news below.
Rylance boards the movie adaptation of the book by Ernest Cline, joining the already cast Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cook, Ben Mendelsohn and Simon Pegg. According to Heat Vision, Rylance will play the character of James Donovan Halliday, the creator of OASIS, an enigmatic figure with shades of Howard Hughes and Steve Jobs.
To give you a little more background, here’s the official book synopsis, obtained from Amazon.
It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS – and his massive fortune – will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.
Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions – and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.
The Mark Rylance Ready Player One casting news comes as a bit of surprise as it will be the third time that he and Spielberg have worked together, following Bridge Of Spies and The B.F.G. The two are also set to unite for a fourth, as Pope Pius IX in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which Spielberg will shoot directly after Ready Player One.
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