Taglines: The world needed a hero. They got a guy.
Free Guy Movie Storyline. In the open world video game Free City, Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is a non-player character (NPC) working as a bank teller. Thanks to a program developed by programmers Milly (Jodie Comer) and Keys (Joe Keery) inserted into Free City by the publisher Antoine (Taika Waititi), Guy becomes aware of his world being a video game, and takes steps to make himself the hero, creating a race against time to save the game before the developers can shut it down.
Free Guy is an American science fiction action comedy film directed 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. Free Guy is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on August 13, 2021 by 20th Century Studios. Its release had been pushed back three times from a July 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Free Guy had been in development at 20th Century Fox prior to its acquisition by Disney, and is one of the first Fox films to continue production under Disney ownership, as well as under the studio’s new name 20th Century Studios. Ryan Reynolds, who produced the film along with Shawn Levy, said “I haven’t been this fully immersed and engaged in something since Deadpool.”
The film started principal photography in Boston in May 2019, including around the city’s Financial District. Filming also took place in downtown Worcester, Massachusetts, and Framingham, Massachusetts, in the former Framingham Bank building, and at the former Naval Air Station in South Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Free Guy (2021)
Directed by: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, Taika Waititi, Matty Cardarople, Camille Kostek, Leah Procito, Kimberly Howe, Anastasia Tsikhanava
Screenplay by: Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn
Production Design by: Ethan Tobman
Cinematography by: George Richmond
Film Editing by: Dean Zimmerman
Costume Design by: Marlene Stewart
Set Decoration by: Kimberly Leonard, Leslie E. Rollins
Art Direction by: Steve Cooper, Beat Frutiger
Music by: Christophe Beck
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for strong fantasy violence throughout, language and crude / suggestive references.
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
Release Date: August 13, 2021 (United States)
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