‘Ready Player One’ to Be Turned Into Massive Metaverse Experience in Partnership With Warner Bros. Discovery

variety.com:

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A huge virtual world based on “Ready Player One,” a story set in a future where people enter into a virtual-reality simulation to escape the real world, is coming soon to a real (but, you know, virtual) platform near you.

Futureverse, an AI and metaverse technology and content company, announced the formation of Readyverse Studios, a studio co-founded with Ernest Cline, the novelist and creator of “Ready Player One,” and Dan Farah, producer of the 2018 Warner Bros.

film adaptation of the novel. In its first major rights deal, Readyverse Studios has partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery to exclusively bring the Ready Player One franchise to the metaverse across web3.

In addition, Readyverse Studios maintains exclusive web3 rights to all future intellectual property created by Cline. Details on what the Ready Player One metaverse will be are sparse for now, but the company says it expects to launch sometime in 2024. “Readyverse Studios is laying the groundwork to bring the promise of the open metaverse depicted in Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’ novel and the blockbuster film adaptation into a tangible reality: a multi-world, multi-IP, interoperable open metaverse experience for mass consumers,” the company said.