10 Biggest Comic-Con 2017 Reveals

5. Ready Player One's Pop Culture-Packed Trailer

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Steven Spielberg is giving Ernest Cline’s sci-fi novel Ready Player One the movie treatment, and he debuted its reference-packed trailer at Comic-Con.

The original story follows protagonist Wade Watts as he searches for an easter egg in a virtual reality game, set against a dystopian backdrop, so it's appropriate that the trailer is basically a massive easter egg hunt for the fans.

Pop culture references are up the wazoo in the footage and it's fun to replay it to see how many extra ones you can spot each time.

From Tron bikes to Back to the Future's DeLorean, the Iron Giant to Freddy Krueger, Ready Player One is shaping up to be the ultimate ode to geek culture.

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