Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Ready Player One."
"Ready Player One" is currently in theaters and it's a lot different from the book you may remember.
Steven Spielberg's adaptation takes many liberties from the 2011 best-selling novel. While all of those changes aren't great, most of them improve vastly upon the novel.
There are way too many differences from the movie to count up. But for the film's release, INSIDER gathered together some of the biggest changes the movie makes from Ernest Cline's 2011 book.
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1. The movie starts and ends in Columbus, Ohio.
The events of the entire movie conveniently take place in one location, but that's not the case in the book. The gamers are from all over the word.
Wade Watts is from Oklahoma City before he moves to Columbus to hide from Innovative Online Industries. Samantha Cook/Art3mis is from Canada, Aech is originally an Atlanta, Georgia native, while Sho and Daito are from Japan.
The group don't meet up until near the film's end in Oregon.
2. The winner of the contest in the movie inherits $500 billion along with a controlling stake in the OASIS.
In the book, James Halliday announces the winner will also have control of the company, but he's not as wealthy. His fortune is valued "in excess of two hundred and forty billion dollars."
OK — we're nit-picking. We know.
3. The entire contest is different in the book.
In the book, Halliday's contest consists of discovering three keys which unlock three different gates. Each gate holds a challenge or a series of challenges that must be completed to gain a clue to the location of the next key.
Among the tasks Watts has to complete are winning '80s game "Joust," acting his way through "Monty Python," getting a high score in Tempest, and solving a clue involving the band Rush for the egg's final location.
The contest is far less complicated in the movie. Players only need to discover three keys and it makes you wonder how no one was able to solve this puzzle a lot faster.
Eagle-eyed fans will be able to spot nods to "Joust" and Rush near the film's end. There are posters for both in Halliday's bedroom.
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