Line #39 Trivia/ReadyPlayerOne2018


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2	* ActingForTwo: All of the actors playing the main characters also provide the voices and motion capture for their avatars. In the case of Aech and Sho, voice filters were used for their avatars to disguise their real voices.
3	* {{Blooper}}: When Wade goes into his hideout just before his virtual meeting with Sorrento, it's daylight out; sunlight is even pouring through his windows. When he (urgently) leaves after the meeting is over, it's night. The meeting only took a few minutes, so it's doubtful that much time ought to have passed.
4	* CaliforniaDoubling: The scenes set in Ohio were filmed in Birmingham, England.
5	* CelebrityVoiceActor: The Japanese dub features actor and singer Creator/{{KENN}} as Wade.
6	* CrossDressingVoices: Creator/YumikoKobayashi voices Zhou in the Japanese dub.
7	* {{Defictionalization}}: The closest thing to a real virtual Easter Egg hunt like the one in the movie was the promotional event in ''Platform/{{Roblox}}'', in which clues for the three keys and a golden egg hidden in four ''Roblox'' games were given and players had to figure them out.
8	* FakeAmerican: Creator/OliviaCooke (Samantha / [[spoiler:[=Art3mis=]]]), Creator/SimonPegg (Og), Creator/RalphIneson (Rick), Creator/MarkRylance (Halliday) and Creator/HannahJohnKamen (Zandor) are British, while Creator/BenMendelsohn (Sorrento) is Australian. Similarly, due to being filmed in Birmingham, almost all the minor and supporting roles are played by Brits.
9	* FakeNationality: The Japanese Toshiro Yoshiaki / Daito is played by Win Morisaki, who is Burmese.
10	* MeaningfulReleaseDate: This film released during Easter weekend 2018, which is fitting for a movie that's all about finding an Easter egg.
11	* MissingTrailerScene: In the book, Wade must defeat an opponent in the arcade game "Joust" - and one of the trailers shows players riding winged creatures in what appears to be live-action Joust. Technically, the scene does still appear in the film, as we see a whole army of them going against the scorpion mechs just moments before being introduced to Aech on Planet Doom; the thing that's missing is the shot of a Napoleon avatar holding Excalibur above his head, riding on the back of a scorpion mech as it grabs an Joust ostrich and reverts it back into an egg, as seen in the San Diego Comic Con teaser trailer.
12	** There's additional shorter clipped sections from scenes presented in the film that are presented in the trailers. They include, but are not limited to:
13	*** 1. Showing Rick in the real world, still standing in the living room of the Aunt Alice's trailer (as seen in the film), holding something virtual, with the information on Gregarious 120 on the display (showing that Rick didn't lose the artifact hunt due to Wade's poor gloves, but that he dropped his guard when getting ahold of the item and was taken out by Daito).
14	*** 2. Aech knocking Z down while attempting a high five inside of a Personal Shopping Booth at Avatar Outfitters (in the film, you see Aech and Z heading through a green glowing entrance talking about how 100,000 coins showed up in Z's account when he took the key. The shot cuts showing the Cataclyst with Aech asking what it is, with the Personal Shopping Booth behind him. In the Art of Ready Player One, it shows art of the scene of what the shopping menu is like in the booth, with a copy of Wade's avatar acting like a mirror and displaying armor he's browsing).
15	*** 3. In one of the images released by Entertainment Weekly's First Look Exclusive, there's a photo that appeared to be a scene where Samantha, in the real world after her escape from IOI, finds a whole group of people getting up off the ground from the haptic vest shock after their avatars died due to the Catacylst.
16	*** 4. Another image from the EW First Look Exclusive image includes a shot of Rick, Aunt Alice and Wade that was not featured in the film itself. It shows Aunt Alice wearing her OASIS visor with Rick to her right and Wade behind Rick, sitting at the counter, looking at the both of them in the kitchen with a cereal bowl in front of him.
17	* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, Win Morisaki reprises his role as Daito. Oddly enough and despite his Japanese name, he is Burmese.
18	* PopCultureUrbanLegends: Given the positively immense amount of cameos and references contained in the film, needless to say, rumors that certain characters or objects can be spotted in the movie at one or more points in the movie have gone flying. One of the most persistent rumors is that you can spot ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' or ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' characters (specifically fan-favorite Sans in the latter case) during the climax.
19	* ProductionPosse: The second collaboration between Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/SimonPegg after ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin2011'', and the third collaboration between Spielberg and Creator/MarkRylance after ''Film/TheBFG'' and ''Film/BridgeOfSpies''.
20	* PromotedFanboy: You can tell Ernest Cline is absolutely ecstatic about working directly with Steven Spielberg.
21	* PropRecycling: [[https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/ready-player-one-inside-the-oasis/?highlight=ready Mentioned in a behind the scenes article]], this happened with most of the video game properties featured in the film, with character and prop assets given to Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic. This is also the reason why the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 2014 versions]] of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show up, as ILM retained their models from those movies.
22	* QueerCharacterQueerActor: Creator/LenaWaithe, who played the lesbian Helen Harris/Aech, is a lesbian in real-life.
23	* RealLifeRelative: Two of the Latin American Spanish dub's additional voices, Alejandro and Alondra Hidalgo, are real-life siblings.
24	* ReleaseDateChange: Was originally scheduled to be released on December 15, 2017 but was ultimately pushed back to March 29.
25	* ScrewedByTheLawyers:
26	** Even though Cline's original novel prominently featured [[Franchise/UltraSeries Ultraman]] fighting [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]], Creator/WarnerBros replaced the character with the titular protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' due to the then-ongoing legal dispute between Creator/TsuburayaProductions and Chaiyo Productions over who owned the rights to the character. [[spoiler: Mechagodzilla managed to make it into the movie for the climatic final battle.]] To twist the knife further, Tsuburaya and Chaiyo finally resolved the issue, during the first week of the film's release in theaters.
27	** Avoided with Sonic the Hedgehog, who makes a cameo appearance in the final film. Since Creator/{{Paramount}} was making a [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 feature film]] adaptation at the time, Warner Bros. met up with Sega and Paramount to work out a deal that kept him in the movie, an arrangement similar to what Creator/{{Disney}} did with the two in regards to both Sonic and Dr. Eggman's appearances in ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.
28	* SelfAdaptation: Ernest Cline co-wrote the film's screenplay.
29	* SignificantReferenceDate: A movie about finding easter eggs was released on Easter weekend. March 29 also happened to be author Ernest Cline's birthday.
30	* SwanSong: In the Japanese dub, this was one of the final voice acting works Tetsuo Goto (as James Halliday) did before dying of esophageal cancer in November 2018.[[note]]Technically speaking, his final voice acting work was the Japanese dub of ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' live-action film as El Super, according to Yōhei Tadano, Mortadelo's Japanese voice actor.[[/note]]
31	* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: In some foreign-language dubs (including Japanese, Italian, and European and Latin American Spanish), Zhou and Sho are voiced by two different people.
32	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
33	** Creator/ChristopherNolan, Creator/RobertZemeckis, Creator/MatthewVaughn, Creator/PeterJackson and Creator/EdgarWright were all considered to direct the film.
34	** The first draft of the screenplay involved Wade going through a recreation of ''Film/BladeRunner'' as the second challenge before it was changed to a reenactment of ''Film/TheShining'' because ''Film/BladeRunner2049'' was filming at the same time. Interestingly enough, Creator/WarnerBros holds the rights to both films.
35	** Before his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, Creator/GeneWilder was offered the role of James Halliday, but he politely declined. Creator/MichaelKeaton was also considered.
36	** Creator/NickRobinson, Nat Wolff and Dalton Vaughn were considered for the role of Wade Watts.
37	** Creator/ElleFanning and Lola Kirke were considered for the role of [=Art3mis=].
38	** The film's score was originally going to be composed by Spielberg's AssociatedComposer, Music/JohnWilliams, but due to scheduling conflicts, he left and was replaced with Music/AlanSilvestri. Hilariously, this means an unexpected reunion occurs of Spielberg, Silvestri and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture a certain Delorean...]]
39	** Spielberg decided against featuring references to any of his own films, though luckily this doesn't extend to his producing other directors' work like ''Back to the Future''. Despite that, a number of VFX artists at Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic were determined to sneak in as many references as they can and hope Spielberg didn't catch all of them.
40	** Due to the artbook for the film's release and some of the pre-production artists posting their work online, there are a few things that were cut or changed from the film. For example, for ''The Shining'' Challenge, it would have shown a top-down view of the Overlook being a maze with Danny riding his iconic big-wheel, Aech moving down a hall composed of multiple copies of Jack's arms with axes, and it would have also shown Parzival and [=Art3mis=] in a mind-bending and setting bending trip in the Overlook's bathroom (it becoming a centrifuge-like structure in homage to ''2001: A Space Odyssey''), and being shrunken down in a ''Land of the Giants'' trip through the halls of the Overlook, being pursued by Topiary animals that weren't in the original film, but in the book. Some early production art showed [=Art3mis=] and Parzival's Zero-G dance being similar to how it was described in the book, but with light. Also cut from the film, but pre-production art turning up for it, is Parzival's Firefly-class transport, The Vonnegut (though a Firefly is still seen in the film with two scenes, the inside is never shown and it is not expressed as being his). And also cut is i-R0k's space transport, a Colonial Marines' dropship from the movie ''Aliens''. There were also alternate OASIS rigs for Aech's van considered for the real world scenes, which one of them would have had two "hamster ball" rigs instead of the wire rigs only that was in the film.
41	** Creator/JackNicholson was [[https://variety.com/2019/scene/news/doctor-sleep-the-shining-cameo-danny-lloyd-1203388429/ approached]] to make an appearance in the film, possibly reprising his legendary role as Jack Torrance. However, Nicholson declined the offer as he is retired since ''Film/HowDoYouKnow''.

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