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Nolan Sorrento is the head of operations for Innovative Online Industries (IOI) and the main antagonist of Ready Player One. His main objective is to find Halliday's Easter Egg by any means necessary so that he may take over and monetize the OASIS.
Description
Sorrento is head of IOI's Oology (the science of searching for Halliday's Easter egg) Division, and serves as the primary antagonist of the novel; his employee number ID is IOI-655321. He is described as having blonde hair and a hawkish nose.
History
Sorrento orders the death of Daito and is tried for it at the end of the book. Sorrento also tried to kill Wade by detonating a bomb under his aunt's trailer in the stacks, killing everyone in that stack- including Mrs. Gilmore, an elderly woman who was one of Wade's only friends. Though he works for IOI, it is revealed that Sorrento took the job only for the opportunity to destroy the entire OASIS (as revealed in Lacero) to "avenge" his sister and force people to face the world they've been neglecting.
At the end of the book, Sorrento and his employees are arrested by federal officers for killing Daito and trying to kill Wade. In the film it has been recently revealed that Sorrento was arrested, as in the book.
Trivia
The prison identification number of the character Alex from author Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange is also the same as Nolan Sorrento's Innovative Online Industries' employee identification number IOI-655321.
Nolan Sorrento in the film.
Nolan is also the first name of American engineer and entrepreneur Nolan Kay Bushnell who created the video game Pong and later founded Atari, Inc. in 1972 and also the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters and chain in 1977. According to "Ready Player One" author Ernest Cline, "Not that I think Nolan [Bushnell] is a bad guy, or anything. It’s meant as a subtle tribute!"
According to Cline in an interview, author Andy Weir of The Martian had emailed him and told him to come over after he had written some Ready Player One fan fiction, wherein he had written an origin story for the villain Sorrento in Ready Player One.