"Ready Player One" novel sequel, original author deliberately creates a trilogy

The sequel to the novel "Number One Player" "Number Two" is published and sold in North America


1905 Movie News On November 24, local time, "Number One Player"'s novel sequel "Number Two" is released for sale in North America. The second in a trilogy designed by Ernst Klein. Prior to this, he had revealed to Steven Spielberg, the director of the movie version of "Ready Player One", that he intended to write a "player trilogy".

The story of "Player Two" continues the story line of "Player One". A few days after winning the competition with Oasis founder James Halliday, Wade Watts found it in Halliday’s vault There is a high-tech technology that will change the world again, and with it comes a new puzzle and task-Halliday's last Easter egg, which implies a mysterious reward. At the same time, an unexpectedly and incredibly powerful and dangerous new opponent is waiting. He will kill millions of people to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are threatened again, but this time, the fate of mankind is also up in the air.

As for the third novel, the current news is that the third novel will not be called "Player Three", but will be named "Player Zero", which will tell about James Halliday and The story of Ogden Morrow growing up in Ohio as a boy. Obviously, this is a prequel work. From this point of view, Ernst Klein has designed a set of story clues and causes and consequences for the "player" story. Although the box office numbers of "Top Player" are not ideal, the cost of US$175 million and the box office of US$582 million only kept Warner from losing money, but the huge topic and subcultural impact that the film detonated still caused Warner to make the sequel. With longing.

Currently, Warner has no official statement on the sequel, but many media maintain a positive attitude towards it.