Free Guy
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 who then partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company's CEO stole the player's game's source code. 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 20th Century to continue its production under Disney's ownership. Filming took place in Massachusetts and California between May and July 2019. After the film was delayed two times by the COVID-19 pandemic, it premiered at the 74th Locarno Film Festival on August 10, 2021, and was released theatrically in the United States three days later on August 13 in RealD 3D, IMAX, 4DX and Dolby Cinema formats by 20th Century Studios. It grossed $331.5 million worldwide. The film received generally positive reviews from critics for the concept, comparing it to science fiction films and action video games such as Ready Player One, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Grand Theft Auto, The Lego Movie, and Fortnite. The film received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards.
A homosexual and a man in a wheelchair are trying to murder a very small child. - The cripple says to the homosexual-- - Whoa. Stop, stop. Stop! Where did you hear that? A robbery. The gunman told it to the driver who thought it was hilarious, so I memorised it and told everyone. Word of advice? Don't crib your jokes from the trolls of Free City. Trolls? Is that a swing set?
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- You were right. - Oh, come on in. You were right. Our code, it is in Free City and, Millie, it works. Yeah, I know. But we don't have proof. Just forget about that for one second. I'm saying that our game, Life Itself, where characters would grow and change and feel real... - Yeah? - ...worked. - Keys. - The AI worked. It's the reason why Free City is so realistic and people love it so much. And of course it doesn't look the same. There's no waterfalls, there's no butterflies and unicorns, all the characters have different skins. Of course they do. But the underlying code in the game is the same. Our code. And Guy, I mean, he has evolved way further than we thought was even possible. Wait, are you talking about the hacker in the NPC skin? Millie, I'm talking about the fact that Blue Shirt Guy... Yeah? ...is not a player.
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