TRAILER WATCH - READY PLAYER ONE FIRST TRAILER

Warner Bros just dropped the first trailer of Steven Spielberg's READY PLAYER ONE on Facebook Live with its author Ernest Cline, and it looks pretty amazing!

Based on Cline’s debut novel, READY PLAYER ONE is set in a dystopian world where almost everyone spends a majority of their time in a virtual reality system known as OASIS, in which players can visit any conceivable world (allowing the book to mash up an incredible number of ‘80s pop culture references).

The trailer opens with Wade Watts (played by The Tree of Life / X-Men: Apocalypse star Tye Sheridan) saying that he got his name because his father thought that it sounded like a superhero name. He then talks about OASIS, which allows people to do anything, and that people stay because they can become anyone. The trailer then shows James Halliday, the founder of OASIS, who tells gamers that he’s died, but that he left behind a massive Easter egg hunt: whoever finds the three hidden keys will get control of the entire system. Wade is one such participant, who teams up with another competitor, Art3mis (played by Bates Motel’s Olivia Cooke), to find the three clues before a major corporation does.

Here's the first trailer that you just have to watch and watch over and over again, in order to catch all the 80s Easter Eggs within: