This line reflects upon how the protagonist of the story, Wade Watts, greatly reveres the gaming and pop culture of the 80s, holding the archaic arcade games of that time period in great esteem. When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence. But I was a gunter, so I didn't think of them as quaint low-res antiques.
"And that was just a profound moment," he said.These games were outdated digital dinosaurs that had become museum pieces long before I was born. In the flashing, fuzzy pixels, young Ernie found a secret room in the game, where the designer had hidden his name. The Atari 2600 console game Adventure, c.1980. To make the point, he brought out the Atari console he got for Christmas in 1978, and started playing a game called "Adventure." "It was the first virtual reality game that I ever played," he said.
Success has given Cline bigger toys, but he says it's love for the little ones that got him here. "I can get a hold of him if I need to, but he doesn't hand out that number!" "Oh, does he block it? Does he block the number?" "No, he calls me, I don't… " Cline laughed. "Yeah, you have Steven Spielberg's number in your phone!" said Silva-Braga. "You know, yeah, I think he was hanging on a little bit."Ĭline said, "You know, even now just talking to him, I'll hang up the phone after having a conversation with him: 'I just talked to Steven Spielberg!' It never goes away, because he was such a giant figure in my childhood." Silva-Braga asked, "Was he able to play it cool around you?" "And when we made the movie we kept going back to Ernie just to pick his brain." "He's an authority on popular culture," Spielberg said. When Spielberg signed on to direct, Cline, the ultimate fanboy, became his collaborator. I wanted to make this because I hadn't made an adventure film like this, my God, for decades." When asked why he thought it would make a good movie, Spielberg said, "Well, because it's a great adventure. And then they said, 'Oh, by the way, now there's a bidding war going on in Hollywood for the film rights.'" "My whole life had just changed in that first 24 hours. "And then the very next day, we had sold the rights to 'Ready Player One' for more money than I ever imagined I would make, or anyone in my family had ever made," he said. Nine years later, with a baby daughter to support, Cline finally sent the book to publishers. When writing screenplays didn't quite work out, he started a novel. But for years the closest he came was a job as a video store clerk. A love for "Star Wars" fed Cline's dreams of someday working in the movies.
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