FREE GUY Gets a New Featurette Focusing on Taika Waititi's Comedy, a Clip, and Character Posters
A new clip, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and a series of character posters have been shared for Ryan Reynolds’ long-awaited video game set action-comedy, Free Guy. The posters put the spotlight on each of the main characters in the film, which includes Reynolds as Guy, Jodie Comer as Millie, Lil Rel Howery as Buddy, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Mouser, Joe Keery as Keys, and Taika Waititi as Antwan.
The featurette puts a focus on Taika Waititi and the crazy comedy that he brings to his villainous character. As you’ll see the guy just goes completely wild. Director Shawn Levy says, “Taika Waititi takes an already funny script and is riffing on a level that is freaking sublime.”
As for the clip, it features a scene involving Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect) and Joe Keery (Stranger Things) as Mouser and Keys. In the scene, they come face to face with Ryan Reynold's Blue Shirt Guy.
There have been early screenings of this film and I’ve been seeing a lot of positive buzz for it. Some critics are even saying that Free Guy is the best video game movie that’s ever been made. But, we’ll just have to wait and see for ourselves when the movie is released. I hope it’s good! Reynolds usually brings funny entertainment so I’m sure that it will entertain.
The story follows a bank teller named Guy who “discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game and…decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late.”
With the film carrying a message of becoming whoever you want to be in the film, Reynolds was asked whether or not he believes that's true in real life, and he said:
"Well, I mean, I do think that people can become whatever they want within realism. I will never be a gold medal downhill slalom skier. I know that now. But I can learn to ski. I think that if we really spend a little bit of time focused on ourselves and understanding how important connectivity is. And I think the sky's the limit. I think that there's all sorts of... I mean, if the last year taught us anything it's that we can spend a little time on ourselves too. It's not the worst thing in the world to spend a little time looking inward and thinking, 'How can I make this vessel that houses all these neuroses and weird ideas about itself feel a little bit better?' And I think that's been one of the few gifts of a really difficult time recently. So yeah."
The movie was directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things), and it’s set to be released on August 13th, 2021.
