As Facebook Goes Meta…Here’re 5 Movies That Embodied Metaverse

Mark Zuckerberg launched the metaverse project on Thursday, announcing that his company's name had changed, to Meta, from Facebook.

“What I think is most interesting is how these themes will come together into a bigger idea,” Zuckerberg said. “Our overarching goal across all of these initiatives is to help bring the metaverse to life.”

In order to explain more, here are five movies whose plots revolve around the metaverse world.

Gamer (2009)

The American science fiction action film stars Gerard Butler as a participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players, and Logan Lerman as the player who controls him.

Summer Wars (2009)

The Japanese animated movie features a student who tries to fix a problem he accidentally caused in OZ, a digital world while pretending to be the fiancé of his friend at her grandmother's 90th birthday.

Wreck-it Ralph (2012)

“Wreck-it Ralph” is an American computer-animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The movie features various video game characters leaving their in-game roles and socializing via a power strip. It tells the story of the eponymous arcade game villain who rebels against his "bad-guy" role and dreams of becoming a hero.

Ready Player One (2018)

The science-fiction adventure film is based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name. The story takes place in 2045, when much of humanity uses the OASIS, a virtual reality simulation, to escape the real world.

Free Guy (2021)

The American science fiction action comedy film stars Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a bank teller who discovers he is actually a non-player character in an open-world video game and becomes the hero of the story, trying to save his friends from deletion by the game's creator.