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Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two sequel novel launches November 24 in the U.S. and UK. To stoke sales, the author and Roblox have launched a virtual Ready Player Two-themed treasure hunt that takes place inside seven experiences on the Roblox platform. Players who complete the treasure hunt will be awarded virtual…

The plot details of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player Two have been carefully under wraps, until now. The author, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Ready Player One revealed the details Friday morning at New York Comic Con in a panel moderated by Wil Wheaton; the details of which you can read below. The long-awaited sequel…

In Ready Player Two fanboy news, Penguin Random House Audio has set Wil Wheaton to narrate the sequel novel by Ernest Cline. The first of which Steven Spielberg turned into a Warner Bros film. Wheaton’s the Star Trek: Next Generation and Big Bang Theory actor. The audiobook will publish simultaneously with the…

Ready Player Two, novelist Ernest Cline’s sequel to his bestselling Ready Player One, will be published by Penguin Random House imprint Ballantine Books on Nov. 24 in North America, the publishing house announced today. The book can be pre-ordered beginning today. International publication dates will be announced in…

EXCLUSIVE:  Dan Mazeau has been tapped to write a draft of Armada based on Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling novel for Universal Pictures.  Cline wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay and will remain in collaboration with Mazeau and producers on the forthcoming draft. Cline is coming off a great weekend…

UPDATE, with second Tweet Warner Bros is getting clever with its promotion of the Steven Spielberg-directed Ready Player One. They’ve got a teaser trailer (watch it below), and it has a secret link in it that has a password that links to a hidden video that is narrated by Spielberg and author Ernest Cline, with new…

Today, Warner Bros. revealed its first full-length trailer for Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel Ready Player One. 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. "I'm kind of sleepy because I…

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that puts him near the top of young actors to watch, Tye Sheridan just won the starring role in the Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of Ready Player One, which is being made by Warner Bros, Village Roadshow Pictures and DreamWorks. He plays the protagonist Wade, opposite Olivia Cooke…

Ernest Cline is becoming the next Hollywood franchise author. The sci-fi novelist behind Ready Player One, which Steven Spielberg will helm for Warner Bros, just made another whopping deal with Crown Publishing (a division of Penguin Random House) which we’re hearing is a mid seven-figure pact for his next yarn — and…

EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spielberg is set to direct Ready Player One, the highly anticipated project based on the popular sci-fi book by Ernest Cline that takes place in a virtual world. What a coup for Warner Bros, which will bring it to the screen along with Village Roadshow. This is expected to be Spielberg’s next movie…

In a high six-figure upfront deal, Warner Bros won a heated auction for screen rights to Ready Player One, the debut novel by Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline. The movie auction occurred hours a day after the book scored a mid six-figure publishing deal from Random House for North American rights. Cline will write the…