Final ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer Doubles Down On The References

Warner Bros. has released a final trailer for their impending adaptation of Ready Player One. The film has been touted as director Steven Spielberg‘s return to blockbuster filmmaking, and recently premiered to mostly critical acclaim at this year’s SXSW festival. We’ve seen a great deal of footage from the film in the past few months, but this trailer seems to reveal even more new footage that absolutely screams Spielberg, and completely revels in this. There’s too many references to count in this trailer, but my favorite one has to be from the long tracking shot in the middle of the trailer that points to Jurassic Park.

Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and Olivia Cooke. The film is due in theaters March 29th, 2018, but here’s the new trailer to tide you over:

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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.