

“It took years for the movie to get made, and my screenplay got heavily altered,” he says, recalling battles with producers about changing the plot and characters. In the early 2000s, Cline got a film script made, but the movie – Fanboys, about a bunch of kids trying to access Skywalker Ranch to see an early cut of The Phantom Menace – was disjointed and awkward. I would order copies of their screenplays and study them.”

I felt very much like Wade – my heroes were George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, John Milius, John Hughes. “It turned me into an uber cinephile, and I watched all my favourite movies over and over again. “The VCR landed in my teenage years, and opened up the whole world of film to me,” he says. 02:23 Watch the trailer for Ready Player One - videoĪt first he dabbled in screenwriting.
