Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ Dazzles in Steven Spielberg’s New ‘Ready Player One’ Trailer – Ultimate Classic Rock

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The modern day warrior of Rushs Tom Sawyer helps cyber-sleuth Wade Watts kick some major robot butt in the the new trailer for Steven Spielbergs upcoming film Ready Player One.

The highly anticipated movie, based on the popular 2011 science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, is set in a energy crisis-ravaged future where millions of people have sought refuge in the world of virtual reality. From there thing get very exciting and action-packed, as described in the books official synopsis:

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when hes jacked into the virtual utopia known as theOASIS. Wades devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this worlds digital confinespuzzles that are based on their creators obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wades going to survive, hell have to winand confront the real world hes always been so desperate to escape.

In the above trailer released yesterday as part of the annual San Diego Comic-Con festival Tom Sawyer provides the soundtrack to a massive chase scene featuring hundreds of VR-controlled police robots,Dr. Emmett Browns DeLorean from Back to the Future and absolutely no respect for the laws of physics.

The synthesizer-dominated Tom Sawyer appears on Rushs 1981 album Moving Pictures. Drummer Neil Peart explained the songs meaning in the bands 1985 Backstage Club newsletter: Tom Sawyer was a collaboration between myself and Pye Dubois, an excellent lyricist who wrote the lyrics for Max Webster. His original lyrics were kind of a portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be namely me I guess.

it has now been over five years since Rush released a studio album 2012s Clockwork Angels and almost two years since they completed what was billed as their last major concert tour. Peart has since strongly indicated that he is retiring from the road, citing a desire to spend more time with his family as well as the toll that four decades of playing drums has taken on his body.

I would say that its unlikely that well tour again as Rush, Guitarist Alex Lifeson revealed back in April. Really, we toured for 41 years, and I have to say that first year off, I felt like I was grieving for my career and the band, but truly, 41 years of touring the way we toured, I shouldnt feel badly about that.

Ready Player Onewill star Tye Sheridan, Mark Rylance,Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg,Olivia Cooke, andHannah John-Kamen. The film hits theaters March 30, 2018, and you can learn a whole lot more about it from our friends at Screencrush right now.

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