Ready Player One Images Reveal Apocalyptic World of Steven Spielberg's New Sci-fi Movie

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, Ernest Cline's bestseller about virtual reality and video games, is currently shooting in the UK. New images have emerged from the set, which show the city of Birmingham transformed into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Check them out below at Kotaku. More images and video footage can be viewed here.

Ready Player One is set for release in March 2018. It was originally scheduled to hit theaters at the end of 2017 but was moved to avoid a clash with Star Wars Episode 8. The movie stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cook, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, TJ Miller, and Ben Mendelsohn.

The book was published in 2012, to huge acclaim. It is set in a dystopian future and focuses upon a teenager who enters a virtual reality world in an attempt to find three "Easter Eggs" left by its eccentric creator.

In a recent interview with Collider, Spielberg admitted that while his film would maintain the novel's nostalgia for the 1980s, there would be one major omission. "I've cut most of my movies out," he said. "Except for [Back to the Future's] DeLorean and a couple of other things that I had something to do with, I cut a lot of my own references out.

"I was very happy to see there was enough without me that made the '80s a great time to grow up. I think one of the reasons I decided to make the movie was that it brought me back to the '80s and lets me do anything I want, except for with my own movies."