BRIDGE OF SPIES Star Mark Rylance Joins Steven Spielberg's READY PLAYER ONE

Fresh off an Academy Award win, Bridge Of Spies star Mark Rylance has signed up to play a key role in another Steven Spielberg-led project - the highly anticipated Ready Player One. Come check it out!

By RohanPatel - Apr 13, 2016 08:04 AM EST

Filed Under: Sci-Fi

The OASIS has found its creator.

The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Academy Award-winner Mark Rylance (Bridge Of Spies) is currently in final talks to join the cast of Steven Spielberg's next directorial venture - Ready Player One. He'll portray James Donovan Halliday, the enigmatic creator of the OASIS, whose death sets off the events in the popular Ernert Cline novel, i.e. the competition to find Halliday's hidden Easter Egg.

This news marks the fourth consecutive collaboration between Spielberg and Rylance, which started with his Academy Award-winning turn in Bridge Of Spies. He'll be seen next as the titular character in The B.F.G., which is due out this July, and also recently signed on to play Pope Pius IX in The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, which will be Spielberg's follow-up to Ready Player One.

Rylance joins an impressive cast headlined by X-Men: Apocalypse star Tye Sheridan, and includes Olivia Cooke (Me And Earl And The Dying Girl), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodline), and Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation). Production on the film will kick off this summer with June being the target date, and THR adds that it won't interfere with Rylance's commitments to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

So, what do you guys think of Rylance's casting? Sound off with your thoughts below!

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.

Ready Player One features:
Director: Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts/Parzival
Olivia Cooke as Samantha Evelyn Cook/Art3mis
Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento
Simon Pegg as Ogden "Og" Morrow
Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday

Ready Player One logs into the OASIS on March 30, 2018

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Daddy - 4/13/2016, 8:43 AM

Do you think any of the dorks on this site watched Bridge of Spies? lol

Bokis - 4/13/2016, 8:43 AM

First Bridge of Spies then the BFG and now this. They seem to enjoy working together, sounds good!

SmellofDuty - 4/13/2016, 8:44 AM

I like that casting! I hope the movie is good and cuts out some of the teen drama that bogged the novel down. Has anybody read Cline's other book? Heard it was trash.

SimplyAz - 4/13/2016, 8:44 AM

Need to read this book, sounds really good.

I recommend 11/22/63 by Stephen King and Time and Time Again by Ben Elton.
Both books deal with time travel and it's implications.

connorblaze - 4/13/2016, 9:21 AM

@SimplyAz - did you watch the tv adaptation of 11/22/63? Loved that! Fell in love with Sadie and finally found something I loved James Franco in.

SimplyAz - 4/13/2016, 9:26 AM

@connorblaze -

It starts here this week here in the UK, so I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks for the recommendation.
Seems to be getting some mixed review from the fans of the book though.

NightBoyWonder - 4/13/2016, 8:47 AM

I feel like I heard this news months ago...

Emblemmaniac - 4/13/2016, 8:55 AM

Awesome, glad to see them reteam. I'm one of them that actually thinks he deserved the oscar over Stallone (sorry not sorry)

SuperCat - 4/13/2016, 8:58 AM

I still thumbed up the article.

regularmovieguy - 4/13/2016, 9:01 AM

Is this the role Gene Wilder was rumored for? If so...damn it!

regularmovieguy - 4/13/2016, 9:07 AM

@KingPatel -

I really miss that man. I have nothing against Rylance and thought he did a fine job in Bridge of Spies (didn't deserve the win IMO) but I was really hoping Wilder would join. Oh well. Rylance is a good choice.

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