The sunglasses give players a heads up display of the power-ups, and weaponry, and hidden treasures within this video game city. And in this fictional video game, entitled Free City, we differentiate between NPCs, otherwise known as non-player characters, versus players, who are people in the real world who come in and play the game and are identified by their sunglasses. I’m the director and one of the producers of “Free Guy.” So this scene is kind of a turning point for the protagonist named Guy- played by Ryan Reynolds- who is a innocent bank teller who slowly becomes aware that he is a background character inside a video game. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)įilmed in 2019 and finally seeing release after five separate delays from its original July 2020 premiere date, Free Guy is a sci-fi action comedy directed by Shawn Levy (Real Steal, the Night at the Museum trilogy) and written by Matt Lieberman (Scoob!) and Zak Penn (Ready Player One), which follows the life of Guy (Ryan Reynolds), an NPC that and lives and works as a bank teller in Free City.Ĭompletely content with every day being exactly the same as the day before, Guy’s life is changed forever following a chance encounter with a ‘Sunglasses Person’ (the film’s term for player characters) named Molotov Girl (Jodie Comer).Transcript ‘Free Guy’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Shawn Levy narrates a sequence from the film, starring Ryan Reynolds.

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