When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
Direction
Spielberg finally doing pure spectacle again
Visual Effects
The Shining sequence is genuinely unhinged
Production
IP licensing miracle that'll never happen again
Director
Steven Spielberg
Tye Sheridan
Parzival / Wade
Olivia Cooke
Art3mis / Samantha
Ben Mendelsohn
Sorrento
Lena Waithe
Aech / Helen
T.J. Miller
I-R0k (voice)
Simon Pegg
Curator / Ogden Morrow
Mark Rylance
Anorak / Halliday
Philip Zhao
Sho
Win Morisaki
Daito
Hannah John-Kamen
F'Nale Zandor
Ralph Ineson
Rick
Susan Lynch
Alice
Clare Higgins
Mrs. Gilmore
Laurence Spellman
Lame Tattoo Guy (Reb)
Perdita Weeks
Kira
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spielberg refused to reference his own films except one brief Jaws nod—apparently even he has limits on self-indulgence.
The film accidentally predicted Meta's entire embarrassing trajectory; Zuck watched this and thought 'yes, this is what people want' instead of 'this is a cautionary tale about corporate VR hellscapes.'
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