Ready Player One

Ready Player One
By Ernest Cline

Rather than doing a review for Ready Player One, I decided to just go ahead and write the movie trailer for it.

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Movie Trailer Time after the break:

Black screen.  Opening few seconds of Rush’s 2112 play.

Narration begins as song continues

“In a world where corporations wage economic warfare against a downtrodden population.”

     (Drums start in 2112) 

     (Video shows the main character, Wade, sitting in a laundry room, wearing goggles, and watching  
     Airwolf on  a laptop computer)

“There is a virtual world that serves as the common man’s last refuge.”

     (Show the Oasis logo)

“Children are taught, fantasies are fulfilled, and money is made.” 

     (Show skyscrapers gleaming in the sunlight

     Cut to a fit, middle-aged executive with flowing blond hair wearing a form fitting haptic body suit
     walking down a clean white hallway with several flunkies in tow)

“There’s a game unlike any other game ever seen before”

     (Exec sits in crazy haptic autoform suspended chair and puts on hi tech looking googles)

“Created by, James Halliday; a mad genius game programmer obsessed with 80’s pop culture”

     (2112 is still playing in the background and the following lyrics are highlighted:

     “Look around at this world we've made
     Equality our stock in trade
     Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
     Oh, what a nice, contented world”)

     (Video transitions from a gawky teenage boy at a table in a basement playing Dungeons and
     Dragons to the same guy many years later in his basement programming a computer and drinking
     whatever caffeinated beverage will sponsor the movie)

“And the stakes are for complete control of the virtual world within the world where people play games.”

     (Cut to Wade watching the video feed that announced the competition, then video game spaceship 

     battles, then on-the-ground warfare between hundreds of avatars)

“The evil corporations want to win and control it for profit”

     (The exec laughs an evil cackle as the vid transitions to the exploding trailer park, while our hero sits
     in his junkyard hideout with his goggles on.  Behind him we see several car batteries and a
     stationary bike wired together)

“Only one boy, and his rag tag group of friends, can stop them from destroying the Oasis.”

     (Wade puts on his goggles and a special effect zoom shows Wade’s avatar (Perzival), and the
     avatars of his friends, Art3mis, Daito, Shoto, and Aech  in Aech’s basement.  Their names are
     displayed over their heads.) 

     (Art3mis says, “They’re calling us the High Five.”)

     (Cut to score board showing the high scores of Perzival (Wade), Aech, Art3mis, Shoto, and Daito)

"But only if he doesn't throw it all away."

     (Cut to Wade alone and hairless in his fancy apartment.)

     (Cut to Wade looking at Art3mis’ Intelligence file and gently touching her picture)

“For his one chance at true love”

     (Cut to Wade at Og’s castle, “Is she here?  I want to see her?”  Og, an old man with distinguished
     graying hair at his temples, puts his hand out and stops him.)

“This summer.  Strap in for the wildest multi-player experience the world has ever seen.”

     (Montage:, Wade’s uncle takes his laptop, Perzival holds up a quarter, long shot of the Blade
     Runner building, Perzival in a room filled with virtual representations of outdated computers and
     game consoles, Perzival, Aech, and Art3mis put their Crystal Keys into the Crystal Gate and turn    
     them simultaneously, and then screen goes black and there is total silence for 3 seconds)

     (Three video shots punctuated by a “boom” from the audio, but no other sound.  Each shot last 3  

     seconds)

1.    A large green field populated by avatars firing their weapons at a purple force field

2.    Perzival walking into the room where the lich, Acererak, is sitting 

3.    Super fast shot of a Samurai flying straight at Mechazilla with lots of explosions around them

     (The following Oasis opening screen silently fades into view one line at a time)

      Identity Verification Successful.

     Welcome to the OASIS

     Login Completed: (Date the movie opens goes here)

     READY PLAYER ONE

     (The end of 2112 plays, “We have assumed control...”)