{"id":84459,"date":"2016-02-10T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T09:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=84459"},"modified":"2016-02-10T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T17:18:58","slug":"ready-player-one-release-date-pushed-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/ready-player-one-release-date-pushed-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Player One release date pushed back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When faced with the power of the unstoppable juggernaut that is <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>, it seems that everyone must back off. Even the likes of Steven Spielberg, as it turns out, as his adaptation of Ernest Cline&#8217;s mega-selling novel, <em><strong>Ready Player One<\/strong><\/em>, has been pushed back from its original release date of 15 December 2017 (the same date as Rian Johnson&#8217;s <em><strong>Star Wars: Episode VIII<\/strong><\/em>) to 30 March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it&#8217;s a perfectly sensible choice. Considering how well <em><strong>The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/em> has done (grossing $2 billion and counting), going up directly against it unnecessarily would just be silly. Furthermore, by way of competition March currently only has an unnamed Universal monster movie (believed to be a new take on <em><strong>The Wolf Man<\/strong><\/em>) and Egypt-set thriller <em><strong>Anubis<\/strong><\/em>, so it should be an infinitely less intimidating month for new releases.<\/p>\n<p>For those who are unfamiliar with the story, <strong><em>Ready Player One<\/em> <\/strong>posits us in a future Earth where much of the population &#8211; including the young protagonist, Wade Watts &#8211; spends their waking hours jacked into a massive online server known as OASIS, where the players spend their time searching for clues in its 80s pop culture-infused environment. But when Wade (who goes by the moniker of &#8216;Parzival&#8217; in the game) finds one of the clues, he immediately finds himself beset by rival players who are willing to kill to discover OASIS&#8217;s\u00a0secrets \u00a0&#8211; including the sinister suits of\u00a0Innovative Online Industries, who are seeking to appropriate\u00a0and regulate it for their own ends.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the only cast members confirmed are Ben Mendelsohn as Innovative Online Industries official\u00a0Nolan Sorrento and Olivia Cooke as Wade&#8217;s fellow hacker Samantha Evelyn Cook, aka &#8216;Art3mis&#8217;, with Zak Penn (<em><strong>X-Men: The Last Stand<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Elektra<\/strong><\/em>) and Eric Eason (<em><strong>A Better Life<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Manito<\/strong><\/em>) co-writing the script.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ready Player One<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 30 March 2018. For more news about the biggest films, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow-issue-116.html\">pick up the latest issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Spielberg isn&#8217;t underestimating the power of Star Wars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":84460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4399],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ready_Player_One-Wade_in_Hideout-artwork.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}