They arrive to find London has become a totalitarian dystopia and the whole country is gearing up for war. Jenkins has seen signs that the Martians may be planning a second attack. (Penn later told Cline about the meeting.) Spielberg had seen the story, and he knew how to tell it. In New York City in 1920, four people sail to England to meet with Walter Jenkins, the original author of the War of the Worlds story. Then, as Cline tells it, Spielberg had a meeting with Zak Penn, who was working on the script at the time, and came armed with a copy of the book that had "100 Post-it notes" of things he wanted to re-introduce into the movie. The Martian by Andy Weir Shows How Humanity Shines In The Darkest of Moments Mikes Book Reviews 81.4K subscribers Subscribe 602 7.1K views 1 year ago Mike blasts off for Mars as he talks Andy. He had written the first two drafts of the RPO script, but told me that "they couldn't wait to get rid of the guy who wrote the book, because I was too precious about everything." As the screenplay went through rewrites, it got further from Cline's original story-and lost a lot of his pop-culture references. It's now up to Spielberg to turn Ready Player One into a story told well.Īt Comic-Con International this summer, Cline spoke to me about the adaptation process and said something very interesting. (Cline, an admitted ’80s movie obsessive, came to prominence because of his script for Fanboys, a love letter to Star Wars). The characters are likable and the worldbuilding is impressive, but frankly, it reads like a movie treatment.
Ready Player One, in fact, has a lot in common with The Martian: a good yarn told competently, but not astoundingly. If there's a future analog to what happened with Weir's book for The Martian, it could end up being Ready Player One.
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