One Problem Steven Spielberg Had With Filming Ready Player One

As Ernest Cline explained, the reason Spielberg doesn't like calling back to his own work stems from how the opening of his 1979 movie, 1941, included a recreation of a scene from Jaws, and later there was a tribute to Spielberg's TV movie, Duel. However, critics gave Spielberg grief for doing that, so since then, the director has shied away from referencing his previous projects. It's easy enough for him stay strong with this on most movies, but Ready Player One is an entirely different story, as Spielberg's work has been incredibly influential on pop culture, especially in the '80s and '90s. As a result, Cline and others working on Ready Player One had to coerce Spielberg into keeping in these particular elements that the Ready Player One book paid homage to. Cline continued: