A new batch of Ready Player One images has hit the net as a new trailer will be released this Sunday.
“We’re starting to see people are more locked into their phones than looking up and interacting with people,” Olivia Cooke, who plays Samantha Cook / Art3mis, tells EW.com. “In 2045, there is world famine, there is world war, and the cost of a plane ticket, travel, and of living life to a high standard in reality has gotten so exorbitant that the only form of escape for them is to log into an alternate reality.
“Art3mis is something of a legend,” Cooke says. “She is known for being tough, fearless, and confident. I feel like Samantha is that as well. There’s really no differentiation. She prides herself on being true to the core.”
Watch the Comic-Con trailer below as well.
Updated: with new poster.
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the science fiction action adventure “Ready Player One,” based on Ernest Cline’s bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
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.
“Ready Player One” stars Tye Sheridan (“X-Men: Apocalypse,” “Mud”), Olivia Cooke (“Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” “Bates Motel”), Ben Mendelsohn (“Rogue One – A Star Wars Story,” “Bloodline”) and T.J. Miller (“Deadpool,” “Silicon Valley”), with Simon Pegg (the “Star Trek” movies, the “Mission: Impossible” movies) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” upcoming “Dunkirk”).
Excited to premiere the new @ReadyPlayerOne trailer this Sunday here in Austin at the @drafthouse! Follow /ReadyPlayerOneMovie on FB to see the debut LIVE followed by a Q&A. In Austin free passes available now at @gameovergames @AustinBooks & @BookPeople #GuntersNeverSayDie pic.twitter.com/zdVPEflL0O
— Ernie Cline (@erniecline) December 7, 2017
