The Hollywood Reporter:

After the opening of Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernie Cline’s best-seller Ready Player One, the translation of another Cline novel is getting some traction.

Dan Mazeau has been tapped to pen the script for Armada, Cline’s 2015 novel that told of a teen video game champion who discovers that the game he’s mastered was created to recruit pilots to stop an alien invasion.

Random House and Universal picked up the book and film rights, respectively, based on a 20-page proposal from Cline in 2012.

You know all the backlash that Ready Player One has been getting? (I haven’t seen it yet myself, but in Spielberg I trust.)

Armada is absolute trash. It’s just as filled with “HEY REMEMBER THAT THING” prose, but instead of trying to use it to further a sort of original plot, Armada is pretty much The Last Starfighter beat for beat.

Sure hope we get as many angered hot takes over this one.