I seriously don't understand what happened. If it came out that Cline just got paid to put his name on the screenplay but he had nothing to do with it, I would not be surprised at all.
It seriously seems like it was never read by anyone who loved the book. Perhaps Spielberg is such a legend that no one was willing to say 'You're going the wrong way!"
If you go into it knowing that it is not true to the novel at all, you might be able to enjoy it a little.
Yeah it's lacking and rushed in parts but overall it's not too bad! haha. Btw the scene in Halliday's childhood room is almost like how i imagined it, amazing!
They did get some things right for sure. And some of the changes were pretty cool (like H's avatar). If It were up to me I'd add 30 minutes of details and the puzzles from the book. perhaps have the car race lead to the D&D cave and then the Joust duel? I really wanted the Joust duel either as a video game or them actually jumping into the video game and flying on the ostriches. That would have been really funny. Oh well.
It seems that people that haven't read the book really enjoy it. That actually helps. So now I have my joy of Ready Player One form the book and they have it from the movie.
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If he did just sell the title rights and his name I can imagine he is pretty disappointed with the way it turned out. I can't imagine selling off the rights to something I created without having a significant amount of creative control over what was going to happen in the movie. The worst part is that many people are going to walk away just assuming that this was on par with the book when in fact it is not, as you have clearly pointed out.