"Mud" star Tye Sheridan will star in Steven Spielberg's next film "Ready Player One", which will be distributed by Warner Bros.
Sheridan, 19, will play Wade Watts, a poor orphan from the "stacks" surrounding metropolitan Oklahoma who joins the Oasis, reported Variety online.
"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" star Olivia Cooke has already been cast in the female lead, and Ben Mendelsohn is also on board for a role.
The Warner Bros, Village Roadshow and DreamWorks release is based on the buzzy Ernest Cline book of the same name.
Spielberg, Donald De Line, Dan Farah and Kristie Macosko Krieger will produce, with Bruce Berman serving as exec producer.
Cline's novel, published in 2011, follows the rise of virtual-reality universe the Oasis, which humans living in the not-too-distant future begin to value above the real world. Zak Penn adapted the story for the screen.
