Check Out Alan Silvestri’s Main Theme From ‘Ready Player One’

Steven Spielberg‘s long awaited adaptation of Ready Player One is less than two weeks away, and the film’s marketing blitz seems to be in full effect. Although Ready Player One recently saw it’s seemingly final trailer just a few days ago, there was one glaring omission that I completely missed: the lack of John Williams music. The film will mark only the second time in Spielberg’s illustrious career that Williams will not have scored one of his films.

Stepping in for Williams on this film is Alan Sylvestri, a long-time collaborator of Spielberg’s–but never on a film that he’s directed. This is surprising, considering that Silvesrri has been a mainstay of the Amblin family, composing scores for Back to the Future and Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?, as well as more recent scores such as the now-iconic Avengers theme.

Silvestri’s theme for the film, which comes via Water Tower Music, should feel somewhat familiar, since the film is meant to evoke a sense of the past and present colliding in the giant nostalgia bomb that is Ready Player One. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and Olivia Cooke. Here’s a taste of Silverstri’s score, along with the official synopsis for Ready Player One, which is set for release on March 29, 2018.

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The film is set in 2045, with the real world on the brink of chaos and collapse. But people have found salvation in the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance). When Halliday died, he left his immense fortune, and total control of the OASIS, to the first person to win three keys, unlocking the door to a digital Easter egg he hid somewhere in his seemingly infinite creation. His challenge launched a game that gripped the entire world, but after five years the scoreboard remained tauntingly empty…until now.

An unlikely young hero named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan)—under his avatar name, Parzival—finally conquers the first contest, instantly becoming a celebrity…and a target. Ruthless corporate mogul Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn) proves he will stop at nothing to beat Wade and take over the OASIS, and suddenly the virtual stakes are all-too-real. Ultimately realizing he cannot win alone, Wade joins forces with his friends—now the High Five (Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Lena Waithe, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki). Together, they are hurled into a reality-bending treasure hunt through a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS.