Guy realizes that there is something more to their reality as Buddy helps Guy get the specific footage from Revenjamin Buttons.īlue Shirt Guy's popularity threatens Antwan's plans to launch a sequel, Free City 2, so he orders a server reboot that temporarily resets Guy's memories. Informed by Keys, Millie tells Guy the truth of his situation, but he becomes frustrated and breaks off contact, until he talks with Buddy. Other NPCs that Guy interacts with also begin to develop self-awareness. During the development of Life Itself, Keys, too shy to ask Millie out, instead encoded what he knew about her tastes into an AI routine in the game, which was eventually incorporated into Free City this explains why Guy felt uniquely drawn to Molotov Girl. Eventually, Keys realizes that Guy is truly an NPC. Keys and his coworker Mouser, believing Guy to be a hacker disguised as an NPC, unsuccessfully try to ban him from the game. Guy rapidly progresses through the game by benevolently completing missions, standing out from other players and becoming a worldwide sensation known as "Blue Shirt Guy".
Thinking Guy is a novice player, she advises him to level up after their first break-in attempt fails. Now able to access the players' view of the game, Guy visits new areas and eventually meets Millie at Revenjamin Buttons' stash house which holds evidence of her source code. After Millie's avatar of Molotov Girl catches his attention by singing his favorite song " Fantasy", he begins to deviate from his programming, shocking Buddy by accidentally shooting a skull-masked player robbing the bank and leaving with his sunglasses. Guy works as a bank teller alongside his best friend, security guard Buddy. Keys (who is now employed by Soonami) is sympathetic, but declines to help because of his NDA.
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Now unemployed, Millie spends her time playing Free City in hopes of finding hard evidence that Soonami founder/ CEO Antwan Hovachelik stole Life Itself's source code after buying the game’s rights from her. In the real world, game developers Millie Rusk and Walter "Keys" McKey previously created a concept game called Life Itself using a novel artificial intelligence technique for its NPCs. Unaware that the world they live in is a video game, Guy and the other NPCs are mostly oblivious to the chaos caused by players while living out their scripted lives. The players of Free City are distinguished from NPCs by the sunglasses they wear, and spend their time robbing banks, fighting each other, and causing mayhem. Guy is a non-player character (NPC) in Free City, a massively multiplayer online role-playing video game (MMORPG) developed by Soonami Studio. The film received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards.
The film received positive reviews from critics for the concept, comparing it to science fiction films and action video games such as Ready Player One, The Truman Show, The Matrix, Grand Theft Auto, and Fortnite. Following a year-long delay as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was released theatrically in the United States three days later on August 13 in RealD 3D, IMAX, 4DX and Dolby Cinema formats by 20th Century Studios. It tells the story of a bank teller who discovers that he is a non-player character in a massively multiplayer online game and partners with a player to find evidence that a gaming company's CEO stole the player's game's source code.įree Guy premiered at the Piazza Grande section of the 74th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland on August 10, 2021. The film stars Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi. Free Guy is a 2021 American action comedy film directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman.
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