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.

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And I don't need money or fame to prove that to myself.

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I'm done playing your game, Antwan.

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It's time I played mine.

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Deal?

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Popping today and not in a good way. Sales for Free City 2 continue to slip with numerous reports of bugs in the code and lagging online play. Embattled Soonami game founder Antwan Hovachelik finds himself in the crosshairs. Crosshairs. He's in the crosshairs and embattled. We're too busy to gloat. I'm a victim! I'm a victim! Speaking of busy, we just doubled the amount of unique visitors we can handle. It's amazing. Who'd have thought that so many people would just wanna watch video game characters instead of shoot at them?

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Hmm.

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Oh, yeah, we did. Yeah.

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You know, you're pretty cute when you brag.

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Antwan out! Meanwhile, the game Free Life is quickly becoming the little indie that could. Players are swarming to this observational, fishbowl game where they interact peacefully with the one and only Blue Shirt Guy and his now no-longer-in-the-background a digital friend. Uh, hey, Mills-- Do you wanna come grab a coffee with me?

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Actually, I'm gonna jump back into the game.

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- Oh. - Coffee?

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Okay. Yeah. Sounds good.

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I'll just, uh, grab you one.

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Oh, Keys, uh-- I know, medium coffee, cream, two sugars. Yeah.

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Hi, Randy. Milton.

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Hmm.

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I was wondering when I'd see you again.

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Yeah, life has been pretty crazy lately.

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You should see it in here. We're talkin' free bubble gum ice cream for life. Wow.

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Hey, guys.

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