About the title
The film takes place in 2045, as the world descends into chaos and is on the brink of collapse. People seek salvation in the game OASIS — a vast virtual reality universe. Its creator, the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday, leaves behind a unique will. His entire colossal fortune will go to the player who is first to find the digital "Easter egg" that the billionaire hid somewhere within the vastness of OASIS. The quest he launched spans the entire world. A thoroughly unheroic guy named Wade Watts decides to take part in the competition, plunging headlong into a dizzying, reality-distorting treasure hunt across a fantastical universe full of mysteries, discoveries, and dangers.