Hannah John-Kamen Cast in the Ready Player One Adaptation

By Maryann Yin 

ready player one book (GalleyCat)Hannah John-Kamen has landed a role on the Ready Player One movie. The movie studio has not revealed what character she will play.

Variety reports that the story for this film adaptation comes from Ernest Cline’s 2011 science-fiction novel. Other cast members include Ben Mendelsohn as Nolan Sorrento, T.J. Miller as i-Rok, Win Morisaki as Daito, Tye Sheridan as Wade Owen Watts (a.k.a. Parzival), and Mark Rylance as James Donovan Halliday. Steven Spielberg will serve as the director of this project.

Here’s more from Deadline: “The futuristic tome takes place in 2044 and follows a virtual-reality game creator who offers up his entire company to the best player who can find an Easter egg in one of his many virtual worlds via a game called OASIS. Teenager Wade Watts (Sheridan) decides to take it on after millions have failed over many years. The key to winning the game is a plethora of pop culture clues from the 1980s. Whomever figures it out and wins the game — without having their avatars killed in the process — takes over the entire OASIS empire.” (via The Fandom)