USA. – Just two months away from the long-awaited debut of Free Guy, 20th Century Studios has released a new trailer for the director’s upcoming action-comedy film Shawn Levy, starring Ryan Reynolds as a video game background character.
The video, which you can watch below along with the new poster, features new action-packed footage that highlights Guy as he tries to save his fictional world from being eliminated by the character of Taika Waititi, Antoine.
Originally slated for a 2020 release, the film has been delayed four times due to the ongoing pandemic, and is currently scheduled to hit theaters on August 13. Its current release date sees Free Guy take on three competitors in the form of the biopic Respect from Aretha Franklin from MGM, Don’t Breathe 2 from Sony Y CODA from Apple.
In Free Guy, a bank teller who discovers that he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story, one that he rewrites himself. Now, in a world where there are no limits, he’s determined to be the guy who saves his world in his own way, before it’s too late.
Along with Ryan Reynolds are the winner of the Emmy Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Blindspotting’s), and the winning filmmaker Huescar Taika Waititi (Thor: Love and Thunder), who is reuniting with Reynolds after previously starring in the infamous DC Green Lantern in 2011.
The film will also feature cameos from some of the most popular influencers in the gaming world, such as Imane Pokimane Anys, Lannan LazarBeam Eacott, Sen. William Jacksepticeye McLoughlin, Tyler Ninja Blevins Y Daniel DanTDM Middleton.
Free Guy is directed by Shawn Levy (Stranger Things, night at the museum) from a script by Matt Lieberman Y Zak Penn and a Lieberman story. Levy and Reynolds are also working together on an upcoming time-traveling action comedy. The Adam Project, which is currently in post-production.
Sources: Comingsoon
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