ARTNEWSPRESS: Ever since two Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi ventured onto the big screen, videogame movies have been notoriously bad. It’s considered a curse in the industry. But here comes a new perspective: an original movie about videogames.
The first Free Guy trailer reveals Deadpool‘s Ryan Reynolds and Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer in a virtual world. From director Shawn Levy, a longtime producer on Stranger Things and helmer on The Internship, comes this story about a guy named Guy (Reynolds). He’s a bank teller who yearns to break free from his increasingly boring life, but then he realizes why his life is so repetitive.
Guy is not actually, well, a guy. He’s a background character — a NPC (non-playable character), in gamer speak — within a brutal, open-world videogame called Free City, which is headed for cancellation. Guy becomes self-aware, which catches the eyes of the developers. Thus begins Guy’s mission to save his game and himself from termination.
In her first big Hollywood movie role since her breakthrough Emmy-winning performance as Villanelle in Killing Eve, Comer plays two characters in the film: Millie, one of the game’s developers, and Molotov Girl, Millie’s in-game avatar.
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NICK ROMANO
