Dan Farah

And yeah, I made, I made like a,

I probably made like a dozen short films on Super 8 and 16 throughout middle school and high school.

And it really cemented my desire to get into the movie business and make it a career.

And then so years later, when we developed Ready Player One,

So the way that started is Ernie Klein wrote the book, amazing book.

He's an amazing author.

And I started collaborating with him and I set it up as a producer.

I set it up at Warner Brothers, got them on board to fund the development of it and pay for the adaptations to be written.

And that process started in 2010, a year before the book came out.

And then the book came out and became this big sensation, instant bestseller.

And we continued developing the screenplay.

And then it got to the point in,

Spring of 2015, we had a draft that we all loved and the studio loved and we needed a director and we brought it to Spielberg and he loved the script and then he read the book and loved the book.

That's amazing.

And I remember learning at the time that his wife had coincidentally just listened to the audio book on her morning walks.

And so she had been talking about it coincidentally and then we offered it to him and it was kind of like, you know, he was hearing for multiple people how wonderful the book was.

And

Yeah.

And then so he came on board spring of 15 and everything got fast tracked.

We started pre-production end of 15.