Production was set to begin in July The chase was edited to make the street appear longer than it actually is. The backpackers hostel Hatters, also on Livery Street, was used for internal filming for a basement scene. The Ludgate Hill Car Park lot on Lionel Street, in which caravan homes were partially built was also used and a planned explosion there caused some local business and homes to call emergency services, as no prior notification were given by the production team.
Other locations in the city included the former industrial area of Digbeth , in a rooftop scene that overlooks the Birmingham City Centre skyline.
Some of the city's landmark buildings were erased and replaced with CGI buildings to create a dystopian Ohio in the year A significant part of the film takes place in a virtual space based on the Overlook Hotel in the film The Shining. This was mostly a digital recreation of the film using high-quality telecine of the original film, giving them some freedom of new camera angles and shots that could be generated from this recreation. The final film includes a combination of the original footage from The Shining and ILM's additional work.
Only a few scenes in this sequence which involved real actors, such as the appearance of the Grady twins, required them to construct a faithful reproduction of The Shining ' s set for the actors to interact with. Finally, the sequence was post-processed to introduce film grain and other aging effects to make the new footage indistinguishable from the original film.
ILM also had to faithfully produce digital recreations of several of the cultural references that appear throughout the film, including the DeLorean time machine , the Iron Giant , Chucky , and King Kong that was modeled after the version of the character.
Ready Player One , as in the book, pays homage to popular culture from various time periods, mainly the s and s but also extending to the s , s , and s ; reviewers have identified well over a hundred references to films, television shows, music, toys, video games , anime and comics from these eras. This task was eventually made easier thanks to Spielberg's reputation in the film industry.
In negotiating with Warner Bros. Blade Runner , which was integral to the plot of the book, was off-limits as Blade Runner was in production at the same time as Ready Player One ; as a replacement, the creative team had the players play through the events of The Shining , which Spielberg was able to secure the rights to as an homage to his friend Stanley Kubrick. Cline said he had to convince Spielberg to include some iconic elements, such as the DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future , which Spielberg conceded as the film was one he produced rather than directed.
On June 9, , Variety stated that Spielberg's regular collaborator John Williams was planning to compose the film's score. The film also includes licensed music from the s and s, which appears on the digital-only soundtrack album Ready Player One: Songs from the Motion Picture. Ready Player One was initially scheduled to be released on December 15, , [53] but was pushed back to March 30, , to avoid competition with Star Wars: Pictures distributed the film worldwide, with Village Roadshow Pictures distributing in several overseas territories.
The website's critical consensus reads, " Ready Player One is a sweetly nostalgic thrill ride that neatly encapsulates Spielberg's strengths while adding another solidly engrossing adventure to his filmography.
In a review for RogerEbert. However, he also criticized Spielberg's dichotomization of fantasy and reality, as well as the film having "more activity than it does layers". Nevertheless, he remarked that the film "drags a bunch in its final third". Alissa Wilkinson, writing for Vox , praised both the quality and quantity of the world building. She also commented on just how dystopian the future portrayed is, where the main characters fight to save the OASIS and the escape from reality it represents, with arguably less concern for the problems of the real world.
Monica Castillo was more critical of the film in her review for The Guardian and drew attention to the absence of character arcs, the lack of resolution for plot holes in the novel, and the bloating of scenes in the film by trivia. Film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz praised Ready Player One and noted the undercurrent of sadness present in the film, stating that "I don't think Spielberg gets enough credit for making sad films that most people interpret as happy, and complex films that are immediately dismissed as simple or confused".
Cline is working on a sequel to the novel. I don't know if Steven [Spielberg] would want to dive back in, because he would know what he is getting into. He's said that it's the third-hardest film he's made, out of dozens and dozens of movies". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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