What the Armada adaptation can learn from Ready Player One’s successes
On April 4th, film trade outlets broke the news that Wrath of the Titans screenwriter Dan Mazeau has been hired to write a screenplay for Armada, the second novel by Ready Player One author Ernest Cline. The possibility of an Armada movie isn’t breaking news; Cline sold the film rights to Universal in 2012, within a week of selling the book rights to Crown, a full three years before the novel was even published. But the trades are taking Mazeau’s hiring as clear evidence that Armada is actually moving forward as a project, likely due to the financial success of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One adaptation, the first Spielberg film to make $300 million in international release since 2011.
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