T.J. Miller talks about his Boba Fett type character in Spielberg’s Ready Player One adaptation

Steven Spielberg is currently working on the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. The film stars Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, T.J. Miller and Ben Mendelsohn.

Miller is playing a character that wasn’t in the book called i-R0k.

– – UPDATE: i-R0k is in the book, but only a couple of times and is a griefer/troll type. Been a while since I read the book and I had forgotten. Didn’t help that Miller said it was a new character. Sounds like they’ve just changed him for the film. Thanks to Xabier Ramírez for reminding me. END OF UPDATE —

It was thought he was going to be some kind of Internet Troll, but turns out he is a bounty hunter. Miller spoke to Fandango about the role and gave some more details on the character:

I like the sound of that and I am a fan of T.J. Miller, but do you think it is a good fit for the story?

Here is the book synopsis:

It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We’re out of oil. We’ve wrecked the climate. Famine, poverty, and disease are widespread.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be, where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets. And like most of humanity, Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality: OASIS founder James Halliday, who dies with no heir, has promised that control of the OASIS – and his massive fortune – will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation.

For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century. And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle.

Suddenly, he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize, a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions – and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed.

Spielberg has put together an amazing cast for this film and I cannot wait to see what he does with the book.