Reliably entertaining and usually found bringing oafish characters to life, T.J. Miller has been enjoying a lot of success of late, with HBO's Silicon Valley and his role as Weasel in Deadpool. He's now landed what could be his biggest film yet, as Steven Spielberg has cast him in Ready Player One.
Adapted from Ernest Cline's book, Ready Player One is set in a world where millions across the planet interact in a virtual space known as Oasis, in which you can be anything you want to be. For Teenager Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), it's a way to escape his tough life, inside Oasis he uses the avatar Parzival. When the original co-creator of Oasis (Mark Rylance's James Halliday) dies, the Steve Jobs-like tech guru offers his fortune and control of Oasis to anyone who can complete a fiendishly tough easter egg hunt. Wade naturally starts questing, joined by fellow player Samantha Cook, AKA Art3mis (Olivia Cooke) and threatened by the corporate types looking to ensure they take control. They're represented by the nefarious Nolan Sorrento, played by Ben Mendelsohn. Also aboard? Simon Pegg as Ogden "Og" Morrow, Halliday's former colleague and one of the other brains behind Oasis.
And Miller? He's playing iR0-k, a troll or "griefer", who pops up occasionally as an annoyance in the book, threatening Wade and times when he's not bragging of his sex-filled offline life. Yeah, Miller's pretty much perfect to bring this guy to life, and we're hopeful he'll be able to utilise his improv talents to work on a few extra insults.
Ready Player One will be out on March 30, 2018.