Simon Pegg signs up for Spielberg’s Ready Player One
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Simon Pegg is in talks to star in Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movie Ready Player One.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, he will play the co-creator of an online utopia, whose appearance is described as a cross between Albert Einstein and Santa Claus.
The film is based on Ernest Cline’s hit 2011 novel about a virtual world named Oasis. Tye Sheridan has already been confirmed to star as Wade Watts while Pegg plays Ogden “Og” Morrow.
Pegg will next feature in Star Trek Beyond as Starship Enterprise engineering chief Scotty while Ready Player One is scheduled for a release in March 2018.
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