​ Steven Spielberg must have gotten the response he wanted from Disney when filming Ready Player One, since he’s now clarifying he did manage to get IP rights from Disney for the older Star Wars films.

EXCLUSIVE: Contrary to reports spreading now, Disney did let Steven Spielberg use #StarWars in #ReadyPlayerOne. Here, Spielberg explains to me how they snagged IP rights from all the studios and what STAR WARS Easter Eggs to look for in the new film, in theaters 3/29 pic.twitter.com/LslVQP1iCv — ErikDavis (@ErikDavis) March 16, 2018

Though there’s plenty of 21st century references to video games and other types of pop culture, it's important characters and props from the time the novel was written to be at the forefront of the movie.

In a recent interview with Fandango, Spielberg said:





“We didn’t want to use the main cultural icons from any of the Disney Star Wars films because those are ongoing. That’s really part of our contemporary world right now. And even though it began in the ’80s, it is so much a part of our real life today in the 21st century. So we asked for some of the smaller items, and Disney gave us everything we asked for."





Ready Player One hits theaters March 29, 2018.