Warner Bros. revealed its first full-length trailer for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One. Deadline reported that the author "debuted the trailer at an event at the Alamo Drafthouse in his hometown of Austin which was live streamed with a Q&A afterward." The movie, which opens March 30, was written by Cline and Zak Penn. The cast includes Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, T. J. Miller, Simon Pegg and Mark Rylance.
Cline's description of the film: "If Willy Wonka was a video game designer instead of a candy maker and he held his golden ticket contest inside the worlds greatest video game--that's the essence of what the story is."
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Emily Rios (Breaking Bad, Snowfall) has landed the role of Victoria in If Beale Street Could Talk, based on James Baldwin's novel and directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Deadline reported. The project also stars KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Colman Domingo, Brian Tyree Henry, Dave Franco, Ed Skrein, Pedro Pascal and Regina King. Jenkins wrote the script and is producing under his Pastel label with Annapurna Pictures and Plan B.