Ready Player One

Ready Player One is a 2011 novel by Ernest Cline about a boy who engages in a virtual scavenger hunt in the future. The story, which was adapted into a movie in 2018, references dozens of entertainment properties from the 1980s including Back to the Future, Star Wars, Pac-Man, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, and The Lord of the Rings, among many, many others.
==Mentions==
;Book
* A character in the book, Kira Underwood, was born Karen Underwood, but insisted on being called Kira ever since seeing The Dark Crystal.
* Broadcasting from a virtual environment, software mogul James Donovan Halliday takes on the appearance of his younger self in the 1970s wearing a Muppet Show t-shirt.
* Protagonist Wade Watts describes being raised on OASIS software in a virtual reality simulation of Sesame Street, "singing songs with friendly Muppets."
* Watts studies a book called "Anorak's Almanac" which references Halliday's favorite media. Using this as a guide, he consumes several movies and TV shows, including every episode of The Muppet Show.
;Movie
* The marketing campaign for the movie featured a poster spoofing the Ted CoConis poster for Jim Henson's 1986 film Labyrinth.
* Aech's workshop contains a Fraggle Rock lunchbox where she keeps miniature vehicle parts.
* The workshop's living space is decorated with a Kermit the Frog doll, a Cookie Monster cookie jar, a poster for The Dark Crystal, and a VHS copy of Labyrinth on the floor.
==Connections==
*David Forman played a Hong Kong businessman
*Ralph Ineson played Rick
*Hannah John-Kamen played F'Nale Zandor
*Ben Mendelsohn played Sorrento
*Simon Pegg played Ogden Morrow
*Steven Spielberg directed and produced the film
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