Steven Spielberg’s Prepared Participant One has change into a prime 10 streaming hit as audiences await the director’s big-screen return this summer time. Launched in 2018, the Spielberg sci-fi movie is an adaptation of the e-book of the identical title by Ernest Cline, and it marks Spielberg’s final true blockbuster.
Although not broadly thought-about amongst Spielberg’s greatest, alongside motion pictures like Jaws (1975), Raiders of the Misplaced Ark (1981), and Jurassic Park (1993), Prepared Participant One is now connecting with viewers on Prime Video, the place it at the moment ranks because the ninth hottest film on the platform. The movie manages to beat 2023 smash hit The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film.
Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, and Ben Mendelsohn, the sci-fi adaptation falls behind different titles within the Prime Video prime 10, together with He is Simply Not That Into You (2009), Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024), and the acclaimed Sinners (2025). A Minecraft Film (2025) occupies the primary spot.
Marking Spielberg’s follow-up to The Publish (2017), Prepared Participant One follows Sheridan’s Parzival as he competes in a worldwide online game problem for management of a digital world referred to as the OASIS. Made on an estimated price range of $175 million, the film grossed $583 million worldwide, making it a success. By Spielberg requirements, it earned considerably lukewarm critiques, although, scoring 71% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie additionally marks Spielberg’s final true blockbuster. Following the success of Prepared Participant One, Spielberg went on to direct West Aspect Story (2021) and The Fabelmans (2022). Each had been effectively acquired critically, however the former is a musical and the latter is a coming-of-age drama.
This summer time, Spielberg is ready to return to his blockbuster roots with Disclosure Day, a big-budget sci-fi starring Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, and Wyatt Russell. The movie chronicles humanity’s response to studying of extraterrestrial life, with O’Connor enjoying a whistleblower trying to share the reality.
Disclosure Day could share the identical style as Prepared Participant One, however the trailer, included above, suggests this movie will characteristic some massive variations. As a substitute of going down largely in a digital online game world of the far future, the upcoming film is seemingly set within the current day actual world, with a tone that’s way more sinister and suspenseful.
It stays to be seen how Disclosure Day will evaluate to Prepared Participant One by way of vital and viewers response, however the newfound streaming success of the latter suggests audiences could possibly be able to embrace the director’s return to the world of blockbusters. After eight years exploring different artistic avenues, it is shaping as much as be an thrilling summer time for Spielberg.
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March 29, 2018
- Runtime
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140 minutes
- Writers
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Zak Penn, Ernest Cline
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Tye Sheridan
Parzival / Wade
