What Ready Player One owes to Star Wars

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It’s looking highly likely that Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One will take the number one spot at the North American box office this weekend and WPTV take a look at this groundbreaking film and the links between Spielberg’s latest epic and the always-inspirational gravity well of the Star Wars series.

“Ready Player One” is a pop culture nostalgia trip to the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s the technology of today that makes it look the way it does.

“I mean, I’ve seen a lot. Starting way back with my friend’s movie, ‘Star Wars’ — George Lucas,” director Steven Spielberg told Variety. “From a movie like that up to a movie like this, with a lot of things in between, these artists are exceptional that are able to create this kind of, sort of believability in a totally digital world.”

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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It’s looking highly likely that Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One will take the number one spot at the North American box office this weekend and WPTV take a look at this groundbreaking film and the links between Spielberg’s latest epic and the always-inspirational gravity well of the Star Wars series.

“Ready Player One” is a pop culture nostalgia trip to the ’80s and ’90s, but it’s the technology of today that makes it look the way it does.

“I mean, I’ve seen a lot. Starting way back with my friend’s movie, ‘Star Wars’ — George Lucas,” director Steven Spielberg told Variety. “From a movie like that up to a movie like this, with a lot of things in between, these artists are exceptional that are able to create this kind of, sort of believability in a totally digital world.”

SourceWPTV
Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in 1981 and been a presence online since his first webpage Fanta War in 1996. He's contributed to Star Wars Insider (since '06) and Starburst Magazine (since '16) as well as ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, StarWars.com, Star Wars Encyclopedia, Build The Millennium Falcon, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, Star Trek magazine and StarTrek.com. He is a four-time Star Wars Celebration Stage host, the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since the stage began in 2015, the Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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