Are you ready to square off against the champions of Street Fighter? Do you have what it takes to walk tall beside The Iron Giant? The film adaptation of Ernest Cline's READY PLAYER ONE certainly hopes so, because the latest trailer for Steven Spielberg's virtual adventure is chock full of cameos that are bound to propel you into a spiral of nostalgia from which you might never want to escape.
When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. It's then that a VR wunderkind named Wade Watts finds the first clue and starts a race for the Egg. Of course, Wade isn't the only one who's hoping to uncover the secrets of the Oasis. Along his path Wade encounters an army of vicious combatants who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the prize. Before long, the game turns deadly and Wade must rely on the aid of other players to start a revolution and secure the virtual world for the greater good.
Helmed by legendary director Steven Spielberg, READY PLAYER ONE stars Tye Sheridan as Wade Watts, Olivia Cooke as Smantha Cook, T.J. Miller as i-R0k, Simon Pegg as Ogden Marrow, and Mark Rylance as James Halliday, creator of the Oasis virtual utopia.
Scheduled to arrive in theaters on March 29th, READY PLAYER ONE looks to be an action-filled roller coaster fueled by nostalgia and a desire to dazzle audience members with slick visuals, dynamic locales, and more pop culture character cameos than you can ever imagine.