Persoonlijk heb ik al een tering hekel aan Ready Player One omdat het beeld dat de trailers mij geeft nog al somber is door de vele (te veel) pop culture momenten, maar vooral door dat je de Iron Giant kan zien vechten en dat is nou precies alles tegen het verhaal van de Iron Giant film in. Maar goed, de eerste recensies zijn goed en ik hoop echt dat de het een leuke film is. Steven Spielberg had een interview met website Collider en daar van kan je nu hier onder een klein stukje lezen.

What was it about this story and these characters that made you want to make Ready Player One?

STEVEN SPIELBERG: I think anybody who read the book, who was connected, at all, with the movie industry, would have loved to have made this into a movie. The book had seven movies in it, maybe twelve. It was just a matter of trying to figure out how to tell the story about this competition, in both of these worlds, and to make it an express train, racing toward the third act and, at the same time, make it a cautionary tale about leaving us the choice of where we want to exist. Do we want to exist in reality, or do we want to exist in an escapist universe? Those themes were so profound for me. That theme is consistent throughout the whole book, but there are so many places we could have taken the book.

Why was this a film you were so passionate about making?

SPIELBERG: I had a passionate and amazing cast, and I fed off that energy. I'd come to work into work and Olivia [Cooke] would be, "Okay, what do we do now? I can't wait!" And Lena [Waithe] would say, '"Throw anything at me. I'm ready for it!" Every cast member was like that. Ernie [Cline] gave us a playground to basically become kids again, and we did. We made the movie on an abstract set. The only way the cast could understand where they were is that we all had virtual reality Oculus goggles. Inside the goggles was a complete build of the set that you see when you see the movie, but when you took the goggles off, it was a big white space. It was a 4,000 square foot, white, empty space called a Volume. When you put the goggles on, it was Aech's basement or Aech's workshop or the Distracted Globe. The actors had a chance to say, "Okay, if I walk over there, there's the door and there's the DJ." It was really an out of body experience to make this movie, and it's very hard to express what that was like.