Free Guy is a 2021 American action-comedy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi. It tells the story of a bank teller who discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game and partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company’s CEO stole the player’s game’s source code. Filming took place in Massachusetts and California from May to July of 2019.
Free Guy – Trailer
When a bank teller discovers he’s actually a background player in an open-world video game, he decides to become the hero of his own story — one that he can rewrite himself. In a world where there’s no limits, he’s determined to save the day his way before it’s too late, and maybe find a little romance with the coder who conceived him.
Release date: 13 August 2021
Director: Shawn Levy
Music by: Christophe Beck
Story by: Matt Lieberman
Production companies: Berlanti Productions; 21 Laps Entertainment; Maximum Effort; Lit Entertainment Group; TSG Entertainment;
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds as Guy / Blue Shirt Guy
- Jodie Comer as Millie Rusk
- Joe Keery as Walter “Keys” McKey
- Lil Rel Howery as Buddy
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Mouser
- Taika Waititi as Antwan Hovachelik
- Channing Tatum as Revenjamin Buttons
- Matty Cardarople as Keithrs and streamers
