Free Guy is a movie set largely inside a video game, called Free City. The game is similar to many you have seen before, where players must take part in missions from robbing a bank to punching a ...

Free Guy is a great video game movie — if you know nothing about video games. In the new adventure-comedy from director Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds stars as Guy, a non-playable character or “NPC ...

In Free Guy, Millie (Jodie Comer) is a game developer on the outs working to prove that publisher Antwan (a strutting Taika Waititi) illegally stole game code from her and her partner, Keys (Joe ...

(Which is, thankfully, a lot.) Guy lives in a video game called Free City, an explosive, crazy “Grand Theft Auto”-esque landscape where gamers rob stores, blow stuff up and cause oodles of ...

Free Guy is a different kind of video game movie, though. While clearly influenced by open-world games like Grand Theft Auto V, and the world of gaming itself, this isn't an adaptation of a ...

set to launch the Free City sequel and destroy the original game, can Guy save his city before it's too late? Reynolds shares a fun chemistry with Jodie Comer who has a dual role playing the ...

Reynolds, who re-teamed on Free Guy with both Levy and Waititi, agrees that the movie’s aspirational elements, including its love story, play a significant part in the narrative of the video ...

While it draws inspiration from over-the-top video games such as GTA, Free Guy is an original IP -- a rarity for an event film aimed at a mainstream audience in this era of franchises and sequels.

“Free Guy,” in theaters Aug. 13, revolves around a world within a world — the video game “Free City.” Ryan Reynolds plays Guy, a background character in the game drawn into the action by ...

Predictably, Guy comes to realize that he’s something ... Taika Waititi plays an over-the-top executive for the company that makes the game “Free City,” and he’s pushing something called ...

Ethan Tobman, the production designer on “Free Guy,” was specifically tasked with capturing the look of the in-game “levels” and design of the film’s video game world. And Tobman says he ...