Olivia Cooke Set to Star in Steven Spielberg's 'Ready Player One'

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The 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' actress snags the lead role after tests against Elle Fanning and Lola Kirke for the role Art3mis.

September 12, 2015

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Olivia Cooke has landed one of the lead roles in Steven Spielberg's upcoming sci-fi movie "Ready Player One". The "Me & Earl & the Dying Girl" actress is in negotiations after beating out Elle Fanning and Lola Kirke in tests for the role Art3mis.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Steven has been reading actors in Los Angeles and New York with the hope of finding both female and male leads at the same time but that hasn't happened. The 68-year-old actor is still in the hunt for the male actor to play protagonist Wade Watts.

Steven is producing with Donald De Line, Kristie Macosko Krieger and Dan Farah. Bruce Berman will serve as exec producer. Zack Penn wrote the script for the project.

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Based on the buzzy Ernest Cline book of the same name, "Ready Player One" is set in a virtual world called Oasis, in which a teenager finds himself competing in a treasure hunt against ruthless foes after the game's founder dies and offers his fortune as the grand prize. It is scheduled to be released in the U.S. on December 15, 2017.

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