Steven Spielberg to direct 'Ready Player One'
Deadline reports that the man who has helmed everything from "Jaws" and "ET" to "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Minority Report" is about to get to grips with an adaptation of the cult sci-fi novel.
Written by Ernest Cline and set in a dystopian 2044, "Ready Player One" revolves largely around a virtual reality game focused on references to 1980s pop culture. And, as Deadline points out, some of those references are to Spielberg himself.
It is understood that the film would be a Warner Brothers - Village Roadshow co-production and that it will be the next cinematic project in Spielberg's schedule following the completion of his current film -- a big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's story "The BFG."
