Star Trek’s Wil Wheaton To Narrate Ready Player Two Audiobook

Set to arrive in print this November, Earnest Cline’s Ready Player One sequel novel can have a significant geek consultant studying it for the audio version. The Hollywood Reporter brings phrase that Star Trek: The Next Generation star, and throughout nerd icon, Wil Wheaton, will present the studying for Ready Player Two. This is consistent with custom for Wheaton and Cline’s works, having beforehand learn the audiobook for each Ready Player One and Cline’s different novel Armada. Wheaton had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it look within the function movie adaptation of Ready Player One, showing on a marketing campaign poster inside the OASIS (the actor is given a shout out within the unique novel, having been elected as “VP of the OASIS User Council” for a number of phrases).

Ready Player Two will probably be out there for buy on November 24th, 9 years after the discharge of the primary e-book. While Ready Player One has been in style since its preliminary debut in 2011, the 2018 function movie adaptation from Steven Spielberg helped skyrocket its notoriety. Official particulars on its plot haven’t been confirmed, however the e-book will probably be a direct sequel to Cline’s unique novel with out considering the modifications within the story from Spielberg’s movie.

“I needed to begin writing the sequel final yr whereas the film was being completed simply to remain forward of the curve,” Cline mentioned in one other interview with THR forward of the film’s 2018 debut, explaining that the discharge of the movie truly pushed him to work quicker on the second e-book. “It’s an excellent drawback to have, but when this film does properly, the next week they will resolve whether or not or not they need to make Ready Player Two, and it occurred to me I ought to end.”

Cline went on to clarify that he had at all times deliberate on writing extra books on the sequence, even earlier than the film’s success, including: “I’d at all times meant to jot down extra within the sequence, however I by no means imagined the film would get completed earlier than I completed writing them. So, I needed to kick it into excessive gear.”

For those who do not recall how the primary novel ended, Wade Watts a.okay.a. Parzival discovered himself the only controller of the OASIS (the digital playground on the coronary heart of the novel) and primarily king of the digital sphere of the world. On the real-world facet of issues nonetheless he lastly meets his in-game associate and love curiosity Art3mis in particular person and shares a kiss together with her. From there it appears probably the sequel will deal with their relationship as a pair, and maybe what has develop into of the OASIS below his management.