Olivia Cooke is in talks to play the lead role in Steven Spielberg's latest project Ready Player One.
The adaptation of Ernest Cline's 2011 novel, set in a dystopian video game future, is the latest Young Adult novel to get the Hollywood treatment.
Set in 2044 in a virtual world called Oasis, a young man spends his time jacked into a virtual gaming world to discover hidden puzzles within the games.
The puzzles are based on their creator's obsession with past pop culture and promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.
Cooke is on track to play Sam, a Canadian blogger who is both teen's love interest and major competitor, whose name in the virtual world is Art3mis.
The Hollywood Reporter also reveals that Zak Penn, who co-wrote the script for X-Men: The Last Stand and contributed to the story for The Avengers, has adapted the novel for the screen alongside Cline.
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Spielberg is currently wrapping up production on The BFG which will open in UK cinemas on July 22, 2016.
Meanwhile, fresh from her starring role in Me, Earl and the Dying Girl, Cooke can next be seen in Katie Says Goodbye alongside Oscar-winning actress, Mary Steenburgen.
Watch a trailer for Me, Early and the Dying Girl below::
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