Naturally, it comes with major consequences for the entire world. That’s why she hacks into the international Warcross Championships, a choice that leads her directly to the game’s creator, who offers up his own “Ready Player One” style task to the smart computer whiz. As a bounty hunter, Emika makes her bones by tracking down Warcrossers who bet illegally on the game, but it’s not enough to keep her afloat. The book follows teen hacker Emika Chen, who has spent most of her formative years playing the eponymous game, which has dominated the world’s obsessions for a decade. “Warcross” by Marie Luīestselling author Marie Lu recently launched a brand-new YA series, which joins her bestsellers like “The Young Elites” and “Legend,” and spins off the idea of a global game into thrilling new territory. It’s an intriguing enough premise, but early reviews also hint that there are greater powers at work, and Will’s predictions (crazy enough on their own) just might combine into a single wild event. Initially afraid, Will and his best pal set up a website to release the various predictions (for a price, of course), making Will the most powerful - and most hunted - person in the world. The film follows a seemingly regular New York dude named Will Dando who wakes up one morning with his head filled with precisely 108 visions of things to come in the future. Back in January, Tomorrow and ITV Studios picked up the rights to the mind-bending book with an eye to develop it into a television series.

Tomorrow Studios recently snapped a hot ticket buy that might appeal to the “Ready Player One” fanbase: comic book writer Charles Soule’s brand-new novel “The Oracle Year,” which was released just this week. Universal picked up the rights to the adaptation in 2012 (years before it was published in the summer of 2015), and just this week set screenwriter Dan Mazeau to write a new draft, based off a first pass by Cline. When he’s asked to join up with the Earth Defense Alliance (EDA) in real life, it sets him on a course for the kind of wild action a teen could previously only dream about.

The most obvious adaptation to capitalize on the success of “Ready Player One” is the same project that followed Cline’s book on to the bestseller shelves - his follow-up, “Armada.” Similarly littered with references to ’80s and ’90s pop culture, the story itself sounds very close to a genuine ’80s-era classic: Nick Castle’s “The Last Starfighter.” Like that 1984 feature (which, yes, of course, is repeatedly mentioned by name in the novel), “Aramada” follows a teenager who realizes that the video game he plays for fun is actually a recruitment tool used by a galactic army to find talented fighters. ‘A Quiet Place’ Makes Noise as the Biggest Box Office Opening Since ‘Black Panther’ “Armada” by Ernest Cline

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