Ryan Reynolds Only Has One Mode
From 20th Century Fox Studios:
In Twentieth Century Fox’s epic adventure-comedy Free Guy, a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late.
Check out the trailer below:
Two things about this right off the bat:
This is the best version of Deadpool 3 that you’re going to get as leftovers from a property officially relegated to the bargain bin by Disney Studios.
Ryan Reynolds is gradually morphing backward into what he always was: A hopped up television actor from Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place.
Free Guy Looks Like an Augmented Reality Fantasy
Watching the trailer, it seems like this might be continuing the gradual indoctrination of the American—and global—movie-going public to the idea that fantasy and reality can merge together in one entertainment form.
Remember the cultural phenomenon of Pokemon Go?
We do.
It’ll take a while for the indoctrination to be complete, and of course, you can probably name other films that have done this schtick better, but with Reynolds heading the film, this leads us closer and closer to the reality that Ready Player One—the book not the film—warned us about.
Will This Have Legs At the Box Office, Though?
I think so.
There’s enough fanboy goodwill leftover to Reynolds from both Deadpool films for this film to be a lock for him and there is a strong vibe here that the producers—and 20th Century Fox Studios, now owned by Disney—need some vehicle with legs to begin to use Reynolds in a franchise capacity for the PG-13 crowd.
Look for this to do well at the box office and look for a sequel.
Free Guy opens in U.S. theaters on July 3, 2020.
