It's the video game movie not based on a video game. Following a year-long delay, we finally got to see Free Guy. Directed by Shawn Levy, Free Guy is the science fiction action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi In “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.