Tye Sheridan has starred in some really powerful projects in the past decade, including The Tree of Life, Mud, The Stanford Prison Experiment, and his major blockbuster adaptation of the hit novel, Ready Player One. He is currently in the large-scale Quibi series Wireless, and fans are hoping that we get to see him in a Ready Player Two somewhere down the line, as it was recently announced that the book’s author, Ernest Cline, is releasing the novel this November.
In a recent interview with Comic Book, Sheridan talked about making the series Wireless, and weighed in on his feelings about a sequel film. When talking about the scale of the Quibi series, in relation to making Ready Player One, Sheridan said:
“It’s wildly different, but I think no matter if the movies like, the budget’s $200 million or it’s $200,000, I think ultimately if you’re lucky, you’ve got people that you’re surrounded by on the rest of the crew that are there, because they’re passionate about the story and they’re passionate about making films,” Sheridan explains/ “And I think that was definitely the case with this, you know, no matter how tough it got, no matter how cold it got, no matter how much time it was that we didn’t have a… we always pulled together and made it work.”
He added:
“You mentioned Ready Player One, working on Ready Player One, which is a Steven Spielberg movie that I was in a few years back was cool because we were pushing the boundaries of, you know, motion capture filmmaking at the time. And, you know, so there was a lot of new innovations in tech, but that was on a massive scale, you know, and this is specifically geared towards mobile viewing. And so it’s a completely different animal, you know, both, both, both of them are very cool and both of them are kind of similar in that regard, but of course I’m massively different scales, like on wireless, we had 19 days to shoot the entire project. So yeah.”
On whether Sheridan has heard anything more about coming back for a film sequel, he said:
“Recently, like I’ve had people asking me questions about, you know, a Ready Player Two. You know, ‘Is there going to be sequel?’ And I think everybody’s well aware that Ernie Klein is releasing a Ready Player Two, the novel. You know, but people keep asking me and I would love to have an answer for you and I think people, you know, will and can speculate all they want, but I don’t really know what the plan is yet. I have my fingers crossed and, of course, I think it’s a great and I loved working on that film, so yeah, I hope, I hope we get to do another.”
I hope so too! I loved the first movie. I know there was some controversy among the fans of the novel who weren’t 100% happy with the execution, but that’s just expected. The book is generally always better and filled with way more information that just couldn’t have possibly made it into the movie. That’s a bummer, but I really enjoyed the way the movie turned out. It was incredible to see on the big screen, and I really hope director Steven Spielberg and Tye Sheridan get to come back and make another one!
Are you hoping for a Ready Player Two? You can watch all episodes of Wireless, now available on Quibi, and look out for Sheridan in the upcoming space film, Voyagers, alongside Colin Farrell, set to hit theaters this Thanksgiving.