Ready Player One, Ready Zak Penn! – CineFix Now

If you’ve read Ready Player One (and we strongly suggest you do), you’ll be excited to hear that it’s one step closer to being a movie. Zak Penn of X2 and the Avengers is taking a pass at the script! Yay! Subscribe: http://goo.gl/9AGRm

Zak Penn’s writing credits might have resulted in less than killer movies (X-Men: The Last Stand, The Incredible Hulk), but we’re not inclined to hold that against him, because his “Story By” credits are pretty cool: X2, The Avengers… The Last Action Hero (which Christina liked. She was 10, okay??). And a good handle on story is exactly what this complicated, mythology-heavy novel needs.

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So, what do you think? Have you read the book, and are you excited for a movie? Or are you a “the book’s always better” purist? What challenges do you see in adapting this story to screen? Any other novels you’ve read that you want to see turned into movies?

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