Ready Player One

Adam Murray served as Choreographer and Movement Director on Ready Player One, the science-fiction action adventure directed by Steven Spielberg. Spanning both live-action performance and large-scale virtual sequences, Adam was instrumental in developing a cohesive physical language that could seamlessly bridge the grounded reality of the real world with the heightened, rule-breaking physicality of the OASIS. From early creative development, Spielberg was keen to explore a new hybrid movement vocabulary; one that fused human authenticity with the expressive freedom of VR, and Adam was central to defining and realising that vision.

Working closely with Spielberg and his team, Adam collaborated across disciplines to shape movement that supported world-building, character identity, and narrative clarity within a technologically complex production. His work extended across live action, motion capture, and simulcam environments, designing movement systems that could translate fluidly between physical performance and digital execution while retaining emotional and character truth. A key creative partnership was formed with stunt coordinator Gary Powell, with whom Adam worked extensively to realise ambitious aerial and action sequences that combined choreography, movement theory, and stunt design into a unified physical language.