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Free Guy
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Free Guy is a 2021 American action, comedy, fantasy, and science fiction film directed by Shawn Levy. The screenplay was written by Zak Penn, with production handled by Levy, Ryan Reynolds, and Greg Berlanti. The cast includes Ryan Reynolds, Taika Waititi, Lil Rel Howery, and Joe Keery. The film was produced by 20th Century Studios, 21 Laps Entertainment, Berlanti Productions, and TSG Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, 20th Century Studios, and Disney+.
The movie has a runtime of 115 minutes and was filmed in Boston. Christophe Beck composed the score, while Dean Zimmerman served as the film editor. It was released on August 11, 2021, with other listed publication dates including August 10, 12, and 13 of that year. The production had a budget of 110,000,000 and generated revenue of 331,526,598.
Critical reception varied, with review scores including 7/10, 80%, and 62/100. On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 7.1 based on 490,116 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 7.451 from 9,788 votes. The film's tagline is "Life's too short to be a background character."
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7.5A bank teller discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, and decides to become the hero of his own story. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way before it's too late.
Cast
- Ryan Reynolds as Guy
- Jodie Comer as Millie Rusk / Molotovgirl
- Lil Rel Howery as Buddy
- Joe Keery as Keys
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Mouser
- Taika Waititi as Antwan
Themes
- hero
- artificial intelligence (a.i.)
- video game
- virtual reality
- gun
- code
- gamer
- bank robbery
- bank teller
- programmer
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Shawn Levy
- Screenplay by
- Matt Lieberman Zak Penn
- Story by
- Matt Lieberman
- Produced by
- Ryan Reynolds Shawn Levy Sarah Schechter Greg Berlanti Adam Kolbrenner
- Starring
- Ryan Reynolds Jodie Comer Lil Rel Howery Utkarsh Ambudkar Joe Keery Taika Waititi
- Cinematography
- George Richmond
- Edited by
- Dean Zimmerman
- Music by
- Christophe Beck
- Production companies
- Berlanti Productions 21 Laps Entertainment Maximum Effort Lit Entertainment Group
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Studios
- Release dates
- August 10, 2021 ( 2021-08-10 ) ( Locarno ) August 13, 2021 ( 2021-08-13 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $100–125 million
- Box office
- $331.5 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction 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 as a bank teller who discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game and allies with a player to prevent its discontinuation. The cast also features Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi.
Lieberman began writing the script in 2016, which was acquired by 20th Century Fox shortly after. Levy passed on the script but reconsidered after Hugh Jackman introduced him to Reynolds, resulting in him leaving the film adaptation of the Uncharted video game he had been developing. The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney made Free Guy one of the first films produced by the studio to continue production under Disney's ownership. Filming took place in Massachusetts and California between May and July 2019.
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