alan silvestri did the music for ready player one.
who did the music for ready player one?
alan silvestri
on june 9, 2016, "variety" stated that spielberg's regular collaborator john williams was planning to compose the film's score. however, in july 2017, it was reported that williams had left the project to work on spielberg's "the post" instead, with alan silvestri hired to take over scoring duties for "ready player one". the official score was released by watertower music as a two-cd set on march 30, 2018, with vinyl and cassette releases projected for the summer. at spielberg's request, silvestri references his own music from "back to the future" within the film's score, as well as quoting the music by wendy carlos and rachel elkind from "the shining" for the film's sequence at the overlook hotel.
ready player one (film)
film and television critic matt zoller seitz praised "ready player one" and noted the undercurrent of sadness present in the film, stating that "i don't think spielberg gets enough credit for making sad films that most people interpret as happy, and complex films that are immediately dismissed as simple or confused". seitz concluded that the film "is a mess, but it is a fascinating and complex one..." in march 2019, a year after the film's release, seitz determined that with "ready player one"s images commenting on capitalism and popular culture, the film was the second-most "interesting [and] substantive" big-budgeted fantasy in 2018 after "black panther", admitting that "i still think about ["ready player one"] a lot, especially in relation to the world around me."
ready player one (film)