MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Ready Player 1: another great book title that inspired an unrelated movie by the same name.

> OK movie story, but not the same story as the book... at all. Basically, an entirely
> other story with three keys, and a group of kids battling a corporation for the big
> prize.
>
> No need to worry about movie spoilers in this discussion, because none of this from
> the book is in the movie:
>
> 1. Any and all scenes or even reference to his being in school online in the OASIS.
> 2. The original challenges to earn a first key: the D&D Tomb of Horrors and War
> Games, Acererak and Joust.
> 3. Wade assuming the pseudonym Bryce Lynch and all the plot twists that evolve out of
> this decision.
> 4. Repeatedly revisiting Halliday's childhood home for clues.
> 5. Earning the extra-life coin in Pacman.
> 6. The Planet Froboz and ZORK and Captain Crunch all hiding the second key.
> 6. Daito being killed in real life.
> 8. Entering the second key through the Voight-Kampff machine from Blade Runner,
> playing Black Tiger, and Rush.
> 9. Bryce Lynch getting himself arrested into indentured servitude to the IOI on
> purpose, and obtaining the intel that will lead to the downfall of the IOI from
> within, while also setting up the robot that will later be revealed to take down the
> Orb of Osuvox.
> 10. Playing Tempest and King Arthur from The Holy Grail for the third key.
> 11. The symbolic plot point of needing three keys turned by three players working
> together simultaneously, while reciting the key phrase to open the final gate.
> 12. The big reveal of Art3mis being reserved until the resolution at the end.
>
> Soooo.. yeah, an entirely other story with three keys, and a group of kids battling a
> corporation for the big prize.
>
> My take on that is this: the bigger the ego of the director/producer, the less they
> follow the book they are supposed to be making into a movie, so their ego can say
> "THAT is my story, not the author's." Spielberg? You don't get bigger than that.
>
> I went in expecting to see the magic of the book onscreen.
>
> Same fate befell Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children under big-headed Tim
> Burton's thumb.
>
> An action packed movie inspired by the book at best.

Just like the Resident Evil movies and Silent Hill movies. None of these follow the games play story.

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