READY PLAYER ONE Featurette and TV Spots Watch the new READY PLAYER ONE featurette and TV spots! The film, directed by Steven Spielberg (The BFG, Minority Report, A.I. Artificial Intelligence), stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, T.J. Miller, Hannah John-Kamen, Mark Rylance, and Ben Mendelsohn. READY PLAYER ONE will be released in theaters on March 29. Film centers on a young outcast named Wade Watts. In the near future, Watts escapes from his daily drudgery by logging onto an MMO game called ‘The Oasis’. When the game’s billionaire founder dies, he offers players his fortune as the prize in an easter egg hunt within The Oasis. Watts gets in on the action then after five years finds himself facing off against corporate foes who will go to any lengths to get the money — in both the real world and in The Oasis.