‘Free Guy’ Will Reunite ‘Green Lantern’ Buddy Taika Waititi With Ryan Reynolds
By Ethan Anderton/March 29, 2019 12:00 pm EST
The Hollywood Reporter has news on Taika Waititi joining the Free Guy cast, which also includes Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Joe Kerry (Stranger Things) and Lil Rel Howery (Get Out). Pitch Perfect and Blindspotting star Utkarsh Ambudkar has also joined the cast. Unfortunately, any details on the characters they’re playing have yet to be revealed, but that’s mostly because we only know the basic premise of the movie.Free Guy will follow Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who finds his routine thrown into upheaval when he discovers he’s nothing more than a background character in some kind of violent open world action adventure video game like Grand Theft Auto. However, he and one of the game’s avatars somehow end up being the only ones capable of saving the video game world when the makers of the game threaten to shut it down.Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Night at the Museum) is directing Free Guy, which sounds like it has a Wreck-It Ralph meets The Truman Show kind of vibe to it. He’s working from a script by Zak Penn (Ready Player One) and Matt Lieberman, the man behind the upcoming animated reboots of The Addams Family and Scooby-Doo, not to mention the remake of Short Circuit.
And since we don’t want to be the only ones with memories of Green Lantern, here you go:
