Ready Player One

It is 2045 and reality sucks for teenage Wade Watts. Life - if it is life - is much better when he is in the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. This is the start of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline . Wade is obsessed with studying and solving the puzzles hidden within the OASIS which are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Solving those puzzles promises power and wealth.

It is not all fun and games. Right at the first clue, we find that there are players willing to kill to win. That means operating both in virtual reality and the everyday reality that wade has been avoiding.

The novel Ready Player One has been popular since it was published in 2011 as Cline's first novel.

The novel is now a film by Steven Spielberg. It seems to be a pretty faithful adaptation.

OASIS, is a very expansive virtual reality universe that lends itself to film. The creator of OASIS is the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday, played by Mark Rylance.

When Halliday dies, he leaves his immense fortune to the first person to find a digital Easter egg he has hidden somewhere in the OASIS. This contest takes hold of the world and the protagonist Wade, played by Tye Sheridan. 

The film opens March 29.