Warner Bros. Gets Steven Spielberg as Director for 'Ready Player One'

5:30 AM EDT 3/27/2015

Warner Bros. Pictures announced Wednesday that Steven Spielberg, 68, is directing the film adaptation of Ernest Cline's award-winning debut science fiction and dystopian novel Ready Player One. Greg Silverman, the studio’s President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production, said: “We are thrilled to welcome Steven back to Warner Bros. We had an historic series of collaborations in the 1980s and 1990s and have wanted to bring him back for years. As for Ready Player One, we have always felt that Steven was the dream director for this project.”Read more