Cinema Quiz: Only a Sci-Fi Fan Can Score 8/8!
"Ready Player One," airing tonight on TMC, is known for its numerous easter eggs hidden throughout the film. Keep your eyes peeled to find eight of these references in our quiz today.
"Ready Player One," airing tonight on TMC, is known for its numerous easter eggs hidden throughout the film. Keep your eyes peeled to find eight of these references in our quiz today.
As the highly anticipated new film by Steven Spielberg - Disclosure Day, featuring Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, and Colin Firth - finally hits theaters since Wednesday, TMC is airing Ready Player One, another film by the director released in 2018, which received a very positive critical and public reception at the time.
The film particularly impressed audiences with its countless references to pop culture from past decades, whether in the realms of cinema, music, or video games. And it is precisely eight easter eggs that you will need to uncover in our quiz today by trying to identify which films or series these eight screenshots reference. Before you dive in, here are some behind-the-scenes secrets about the film featuring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, and Simon Pegg.
DID YOU KNOW?
Spielberg and Sci-Fi
Ready Player One is the 6th adaptation of a science fiction book by Spielberg after H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Brian Aldiss' Supertoys (Artificial Intelligence and Other Future Stories), Philip K. Dick's Minority Report, and... the screenplay and novel written by Steven Spielberg, drawn from his masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Ready Player Director
Christopher Nolan, Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Vaughn, Peter Jackson, and Edgar Wright were all considered to direct Ready Player One.
Vin Diesel Returns
Vin Diesel, who voiced the Iron Giant in Brad Bird's 1999 film, reprised this role specifically for the movie. This character is indeed present in the OASIS, the virtual universe at the center of the plot.