Top 37 Ready Player One Movie Facts
Following is our collection of Ready Player One facts. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Ready Player One film message.
The graffiti on the back door of Aech's van is an infamous illustration from a DnD module known as the Tomb of Horrors. This was the location of the Copper Key in the book, replaced by The Race in the film.
Art3mis adds her birthmark in game after meeting Parzival IRL.
Ready Player One Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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The two quarters placed over James Halliday's eyes are from 1972. The birth year of Halliday and the first commercially successful video game, Atari's Pong. The cost to play: 25 cents -
Nolan Sorrento's avatar's eye color will change according to his state of mind. His eyes glow blue in his normal state, but in the state extreme emotions such as frustration, agitation, and anger, they will turn to yellow and eventually red. -
When a certain character is killed a myriad of loot is dropped. Some of the loot includes Sledges Shotgun from Borderlands 2 (circled in blue), and a SPNKr Rocket Launcher from the Halo series (circled in red). -
You can see a poster for Rush's 2112 on the wall of Halliday's bedroom. In the novel version, the album is one of the final clues -
The colour scheme for the order in which the keys are collected (Red, Green, Blue) are otherwise known as RGB, the MacDaddy of colour spectrums most commonly used for computer displays. (Fixed the order in the image) -
The entire easter egg room is a giant Mortal Kombat shrine -
During the race scene, the Batmobile brakes and skids to the Batman's theme song.
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During the race, Art3mis passes a marquee with "Schwarzenegger" "Jack Slater 3". A nod to Zak Penn who was a writer for both The Last Action Hero and RP1.
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The sound effect used when Sorrento opens the door at 1:54:24 is the same as when Dennis Nedry opens the embryo chamber door in Jurassic Park
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During the dance sequence, Art3mis is wearing an identical red dress worn by Michelle Pfeiffer's Character from Scarface (1983) -
The color schemes of the keys' locations are based on the respective key's color.
Ready Player One Hidden Details


Daito removes Sorrento's visor for him in order for the "real world" deception ploy to work. If Sorrento had tried to take his own visor off, he would have actually removed it in the real world as we see him doing once he realizes it is a trick.
During Halliday's announcement of the Easter Egg, we see the quarters on his eyes are from 1972, when both the first home game console (Magnavox Odyssey) and the first arcade video game (Pong) launched

You can see Halliday designing a certain important room on his computer in the flashback scene where he and Sorrento are discussing payment tiers

You can see an avitar dressed in Doc Brown's "Futuristic" 2015 outfit walking in the background



The level 99 Orb of Osuvox is controlled by reciting Merlin's Charm of Making, his most powerful spell, from the 1981 movie Excalibur
Sorrento's avatar's eye color changes based on his mood.




When 'Z' uses the Zemeckis Cube the back to the future theme music plays

The IOI is the same font as 101 in the Ketchapp game Rider

Daito's choice for transformation shows up in his visor


Ready Player One Plot
When the creator of a virtual reality called the OASIS dies, he makes a posthumous challenge to all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune and control of his world.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Ready Player One. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
Director | Steven Spielberg |
Stars | Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe |
IMDB score | 7.5 |