Is It Filmable? Ready Player One
Quite controversially, amongst the fans of the book, I really liked the film called Ready Player One... See what I did there? I separated the book from the film... They have the same name in the sense that we call a Guinea Pig a pig... But they're not pigs and despite borrowing a few parts this film is not of the much better book. Why the divergence? Well, simply put the appeal would have been too niche, the geek chique of even knowing about RP1 is far below the radar scatter detection level of a Hollywood film executive or producer squad, and sadly gone are the games of rock or pop stars funding a film just "so they can see it" (*cough* shout out to George Harrison there). The book therefore does not have a main stream enough appeal to warrant the investment as it would likely not make any return, where have we heard this before? Putting aside human interest, the logistics... Technically the story told in the produced film is far more technically and spectacular with ...