![]() ![]() ![]() There’s another dip into the OASIS as Parzifal and Art3mis follow up a lead provided by Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (this isn’t in the book and, to be honest, is a bit of self-indulgence by Spielberg, honouring his old friend and fellow director). Somewhat unglamorously, the rooftop garden of the Rebellion’s safehouse from which they look out over the city of ‘Columbus’ is the roof of the old, now closed and empty, Typhoo Tea Factory on Bordesley Street, Digbeth in Birmingham. Ready Player One location: Samantha's roof garden, overlooking the city: Typhoo Tea Factory, Bordesley Road, Birmingham Rescued by a band of rebel gamers determined to prevent the soulless megacorp from gaining control of the OASIS, he finds himself being sheltered by Samantha – who happens to be the real world persona of Art3mis. When he carelessly reveals his real name to co-gamer and major (virtual) crush Art3mis ( Olivia Cooke), the corporation is onto him, with no qualms about destroying his home in the Stacks. Once Parzifal, Wade’s online avatar, discovers the first key he becomes the focus of attention for IOI. I’m sure there are more, but you can glimpse the marquee of the Times Square cinema where Jack Slater IV is premiering in Last Action Hero the red neon sign of Ratner’s, the now-gone Manhattan restaurant featured in The French Connection with the grand-daddy of all car chases and the giant sign standing atop the Silvercup Studios in Queens (you can see it as you cross the Queensboro Bridge), which was the setting for the final rooftop confrontation in 1986’s Highlander. The first, and seemingly impossible challenge, a car chase through a crazily fantastic version of ‘New York’, teems with pop culture references you’d still be spotting after a dozen viewings along with blink-and-you’ll-miss-‘em nods to classic film locations. The humbler offices of OASIS in its early days, and the cafeteria where Wade studies the recorded interaction between Halliday and his one-time business partner Ogden Morrow ( Simon Pegg) is Solaris House, the former HQ of Sun Microsystems HQ, Sun Park, Minley Road, northwest of Farnborough in Surrey. It pops up again, as the Avengers' 'Berlin' facility in Spider-Man: Far From Home. The new building used in the film, which divided opinion by looking more like an airport terminal than a place of learning, dates from 2012. It soon earned the rather sneering nickname of the 'Socialist Eton'. ![]() The sleek office of IOI, with its glass walkways and jauntily slanted wall, where CEO Nolan Sorrento ( Ben Mendelsohn) oversees teams of geeks combing through Halliday’s beloved 70s and 80s pop culture for clues, is Holland Park School, Airlie Gardens, West London W8.įounded in 1958 as a progressive comprehensive school, the smart catchment area of Holland Park, west of Kensington Gardens, included a fair share of political media celebs. The Stacks are the digital extension of an outdoor set built on Leavesden’s backlot and the Studio itself provided the cavernous interiors of IOI (Innovative Online Industries), an ambitious corporation hungry to take over the digital creation using three ‘keys’ leading to a vital Easter Egg left by the OASIS’s late creator James Halliday ( Mark Rylance) which can be discovered by only the most dedicated online gamer. Ready Player One location: the streets of 'Columbus, Ohio – 2045': Livery Street, Birmingham
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