Cooke's first day of Ready shooting found her working with British thespian Mark Rylance (as the OASIS creator James Halliday) and Spielberg. "That was a panic attack. My first day and first scene.

In the role of Ogden Morrow, i.e. the Curator, James Halliday's best friend and the co-creator of the OASIS, Simon Pegg plays an emotional part in Ready Player One.

Not all of the characters in Ready Player One are quite so apathetic as that. In fact, Art3mis’ goal on the page is to inherit Halliday’s $500 billion and use it to start fixing the ills of ...

Ready Player Onebegins with an ordinary boy competing in a video game contest created by genius James Haliday ... Since Halliday created the Easter Egg hunt in Ready Player One after learning ...

Wade is one of many gamers who aims to solve a mysterious puzzle created by Oasis founder James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who willed $500,000,000,000 and full ownership of his virtual world to the ...

Ready Player One juxtaposes this Black Mirror-esque universe with an abundance of 1980s music and film references throughout, all tying into Halliday’s love for the era’s pop culture.