Tuesday, April 3, 2018

News:: Hot off the heels of Ready Player One, Universal orders script of Ernest Cline's Armada

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel Ready Player One came out this past week. Despite Matt's review, the movie is doing quite well at the box office, so it's no surprise that studios are going to be clamoring over all of Cline's other books. Problem is there is only one other, Armada.

Armada, which came out a few years after Ready Player One, is what would happen if you took The Last Starfighter, crossed it with Ender's Game, and shoved it full of cultural references like it were a Thanksgiving Turducken. The story follows nerdy high school senior Zack and shows how just maybe all of those video games and science fiction books he consumed growing up weren't put to waste. The story also borrows some elements from the famous Polybius conspiracy that has circulated around video gaming circles for years.

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