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- In an exclusive clip, Free Guy director Shawn Levy breaks down the film’s climactic moment.
- The Ryan Reynolds-starring action-comedy was one of the year’s surprise hits, grossing over $100M domestically.
- Free Guy is now available on Digital.
The Ryan Reynolds-starring Free Guy has been one of the surprise films of both the summer and the year as a whole, not only in terms of how it was received by critics and audiences alike (find our review here) but by its box office return, as its $100M+ domestic gross ($300M+ worldwide) likely played a huge role in giving Hollywood the confidence to continue forward with the now STACKED Fall release schedule.
Part of what made Free Guy such an unexpected hit is that, despite its inherent blockbuster nature, it had a core decency to it that’s similar to the very dynamic that’s earning Ted Lasso all sorts of widespread praise and appreciation. It was also, of course, a wildly inventive action-comedy, as the in-world video game element of it all was genuinely imaginative and fresh.
REVIEW: ‘Free Guy’ Is V. Good
Like any good video game, though, Free Guy came with an epic boss battle at the end, as Guy had to take on an upgraded — albeit a hilariously underdeveloped — brute version of himself named “Dude.” In this exclusive clip, director Shawn Levy explains how they went about making the movie-stealing scene.
Free Guy stars Ryan Reynolds as Guy, Jodie Comer as Millie / Molotovgirl, Lil Rel Howery as Buddy, Joe Keery as Keys, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Mouser, and Taika Waititi as Antwan. The film is available on Digital today, September 28th, and will be available on 4K and Blu-ray on Tuesday, October 12th.
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