Free Guy (2021)
Free Guy tells the story of Guy (Ryan Reynolds), an NPC in an MMO video game called Free City who unexpectedly gains sentience and uses it to achieve his true potential. Aided by video game developer Keys (Joe Keery) and player character Millie (Jodie Comer), Guy helps to uncover Free City's source code in an attempt to prove that its developer (Taika Waititi) stole the code. With his best friend, NPC Buddy (Lil Rel Howery) at his side and armed with an array of video game weapons, Guy must face threats from both inside and outside of his virtual world.
Free Guy
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- Director
- Shawn Levy
- Release Date
- August 13, 2021
- Studio(s)
- 20th Century
- Distributor(s)
- 20th Century
- Cast
- Lil Rel Howery , Jodie Comer , Ryan Reynolds , Utkarsh Ambudkar , Taika Waititi , Camille Kostek , Joe Keery
- Writers
- Matt Lieberman , Zak Penn
- Runtime
- 115 minutes
- Budget
- 100–125 million
Summary
A bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late.
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