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Music announced today the details of the soundtrack to Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg's action adventure based on Ernest Cline's best-selling book of the same name. The film is in theaters March 29, and the soundtrack, featuring the score by award-winning composer
Alan Silvestri (The Avengers, the Back to the
Future Trilogy, Forrest Gump), becomes available for streaming and digital purchase the next day. A two-CD version of the soundtrack is slated for an April 6 release, with a
Double Vinyl configuration of the soundtrack available July 13.
The film's director/producer Steven Spielberg notes, "While all sorts of culturally iconic references populate Ready Player One, the score that
Alan Silvestri composed is completely and intoxicatingly original. It's bound together by multiple themes that identify plot and character and is infused by such percussive adrenaline and soaring strings that Alan has made Ready Player One appear to fly. I think his score is fantastic."
Though Ready Player One marks their first collaboration on a film directed by Spielberg, Silvestri has scored a number of films produced by the filmmaker, including the Back to the
Future films.
The composer says, "An invitation to travel arrived just about a year ago, not just to a place, but to a time. Actually, to a number of times—primarily the year 2045, along with a few stops in the 80s. A rather detailed map had been drawn by Ernest Cline and the
Captain of the voyage, none other than Mr. Spielberg himself. What could one possibly do or say? Pencil in hand, one firmly fastens one's seatbelt, says 'Sir, Yes, Sir,' and prepares for the trip of a lifetime."
The Ready Player One soundtrack is now available for pre-order, and the twenty-two-song album track listing is as follows. All music by Alan Silvestri.
About Ready Player One:
From filmmaker Steven Spielberg comes the action adventure Ready Player One, based on Ernest Cline's bestseller of the same name, which has become a worldwide phenomenon.
In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spend their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone—the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric
James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the OASIS to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir. When Wade conquers the first challenge of the reality-bending treasure hunt, he and his friends—known as the High Five—are hurled into a fantastical universe of discovery and danger to save the OASIS and their world.
Three-time Oscar winner Spielberg (Schindler's List, Saving
Private Ryan) directed the film from a screenplay by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline. Ready Player One was produced by Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Spielberg and Dan Farah. Adam Somner,
Daniel Lupi, Chris deFaria and Bruce Berman served as executive producers.
Ready Player One stars Tye Sheridan (X-Men: Apocalypse, Mud),
Olivia Cooke (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Bates Motel), Ben Mendelsohn (Rogue One - A Star Wars Story, Bloodline), Lena Waithe (Master of None), T.J. Miller (Deadpool), Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki,
Hannah John-Kamen (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), with
Simon Pegg (the Star Trek and Mission: Impossible movies) and Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies, Dunkirk).
Warner Bros.
Pictures and Amblin Entertainment present, in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Amblin Production, a De Line
Pictures Production, a Steven Spielberg Film, Ready Player One. The film will be distributed in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX, by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures. This film has been rated PG-13.
