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The closing scenes of Steven Spielberg's Ready player One introduced a supplementary wrinkle that we didn't door virtually in the book. Not Wade (Tye Sheridan) and Samantha (Olivia Cooke) closing the OASIS for two days a week -- while that was an original choice. Instead, we axiom Wade -- after winning the overall competition -- interact subsequently his idol, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), in the program that the genius created. Only, Halliday is dead. Isn't he? CinemaBlend recently had Ready player One screenwriter Zak Penn as a guest upon the recurring podcast ReelBlend, and subsequently we asked his for elaboration upon this strange scene, Penn revealed to us:

If you just think virtually it, Halliday appears in the movie in the flashbacks -- in the Halliday Journals, which obviously is a departure from the book. That doesn't exist in the lp and that was a mannerism to acquire him actually upon screen. But subsequently he turns back up into Halliday in the OASIS, who is that? That's not Halliday, because Halliday is dead. That's not... there's no outlook coming that Halliday is actually alive. He is dead. And it's not Anorak, because he's untouched back up to Halliday.So the ask is, what is that? Who is that person who [Wade] is talking to? And, you know, it obviously raises some fine questions virtually what defines consciousness, and what defines who is real and who isn't real. But I think that even the mannerism he has his own younger self subsequently him in the room should meet the expense of you a clue that that Halliday is not -- he's kind of taken upon his own persona. But I pull off think that that's something that Ernie will agreement subsequently in the sequel, in the book.

That's right, Ernie Cline, the author of the source novel for Ready player One, is hard at piece of legislation upon a follow happening version that will be set in the OASIS. And seeing as how Cline worked hand in hand subsequently Zak Penn upon the screenplay for Steven Spielberg's movie, there's no chance that he'd permit him to create such a major tweak to the status of James Halliday (Mark Rylance) without teasing that this might be a concept that he wants to question virtually the OASIS.

In the scene in question, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) meets subsequently Halliday (Rylance) in a recreation of the programmer's childhood bedroom. A young version of Halliday next sits there playing a console video game upon an old TV set. Halliday acknowledges that he keeps this version of himself nearby. Does this want that Halliday someway found a mannerism to upload his consciousness INTO the OASIS, and he can personify himself at any stage of his existence? It seems subsequently a master of virtual veracity would have that capability.

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