And this conversation became more like de Campi and Abrams’ real-life post-screening bar-side arguments. But the writers’ feelings about Spielberg got the better of them. It was supposed to be a straightforward series of six 500-word exchanges, three apiece. This month’s conversation did not go as planned. After James Halliday (Mark Rylance), the socially awkward creator of the OASIS, dies, Watts bands together with a group of fellow misfit video-game players - role call: Art3mis (Olivia Cooke)! Aech (Lena Waithe)! Sho (Philip Zhao)! And Daito (Win Morisaki)! - to save the OASIS from being overtaken by evil corporate overlord Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn). Like Cline’s source material, Spielberg’s movie follows Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager who likes to escape from his futuristic, economically depressed reality into the OASIS, a virtual reality world that’s like the Matrix, only with more 1980s nostalgia. This month’s conversation concerns Ready Player One, director Steven Spielberg’s new adaptation of Ernest Cline’s hyper-popular science-fiction novel. The following is the second monthly installment in a series of conversations between noted comics writer Alex de Campi ( No Mercy, May Day) and agreeable Hollywood Reporter contributor Simon Abrams.
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