![]() ![]() ![]() Back in January, Tomorrow and ITV Studios picked up the rights to the mind-bending book with an eye to develop it into a television series. Tomorrow Studios recently snapped a hot ticket buy that might appeal to the “Ready Player One” fanbase: comic book writer Charles Soule’s brand-new novel “The Oracle Year,” which was released just this week. Universal picked up the rights to the adaptation in 2012 (years before it was published in the summer of 2015), and just this week set screenwriter Dan Mazeau to write a new draft, based off a first pass by Cline. ![]() When he’s asked to join up with the Earth Defense Alliance (EDA) in real life, it sets him on a course for the kind of wild action a teen could previously only dream about. The most obvious adaptation to capitalize on the success of “Ready Player One” is the same project that followed Cline’s book on to the bestseller shelves - his follow-up, “Armada.” Similarly littered with references to ’80s and ’90s pop culture, the story itself sounds very close to a genuine ’80s-era classic: Nick Castle’s “The Last Starfighter.” Like that 1984 feature (which, yes, of course, is repeatedly mentioned by name in the novel), “Aramada” follows a teenager who realizes that the video game he plays for fun is actually a recruitment tool used by a galactic army to find talented fighters. ‘A Quiet Place’ Makes Noise as the Biggest Box Office Opening Since ‘Black Panther’ “Armada” by Ernest Cline ![]()
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