Ready player one series6/22/2023 By now, the book was a New York Times bestseller and producer Donald De Line set up the adaptation at Warner Bros., where Cline had already submitted a few drafts of his own. Penn realized that his nostalgic 2014 documentary “ Atari: Game Over” - in which Cline was a subject - was perfect preparation for adapting this cinematic valentine to ’80s pop culture. Two years later, the writer of MCU movies like “X-Men: The Last Stand” and “The Avengers” reconsidered. It appealed on a visceral level, but as a job, ‘This isn’t going to happen.'” This guy sucked every interest I have in my brain and put it into a book. “It was so enormous, the scope was so huge,” Penn said in a phone interview. When screenwriter Zak Penn read galleys in 2011 for Ernest Cline’s “ Ready Player One,” he had a thought: “This will never get made.” The sprawling novel was wall to wall with ’80s references, everything from movies “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,” “Batman” and “Back to the Future” to video games Halo, Minecraft, Tomb Raider, and Dungeons and Dragons.
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