Elle Fanning, Olivia Cooke, and Lola Kirke are up for the role. Read the full article on AICN Above fan art by AlexielApril. Steven Spielberg is going to jump right into READY PLAYER ONE after he finishes up BRIDGE OF SPIES and THE BFG, and he’s lining up potential actresses to star as Samantha Cook’s avatar, Art3mis, in the Zak Penn-scripted adaptation. Of the five actresses allegedly on The Beard’s shortlist, three of them have now been revealed: Elle Fanning worked with Spielberg on SUPER 8, and has done a strong job of setting herself apart from Oscar-nominated Dakota with stuff like MALEFICENT and the upcoming TRUMBO (her reading of “He’s not coming back” in THE NINES still gives me chills).