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Free Guy
- Matt Lieberman
- Produced
- Action
- Comedy
- 2016
- Black List
- 73.1
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Market: Tue, 15 Nov 2016Sold: Tue, 15 Nov 2016
Producer: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schecter, Adam Kolbrenner
Executive: Robyn Meisinger, Mikey Ireland
AgentSimon Faber, Philip Raskind, Roger Green (WME)
ManagerAdam Kolbrenner (Madhouse)
ProductionBerlanti Productions, Madhouse
StudioFox
Producer: Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schecter, Adam Kolbrenner
Executive: Robyn Meisinger, Mikey Ireland
AgentSimon Faber, Philip Raskind, Roger Green (WME)
ManagerAdam Kolbrenner (Madhouse)
ProductionBerlanti Productions, Madhouse
StudioFox
In the vein of "The Truman Show," where a bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a realistic, open-world action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving the world.
Guy, an average man living in the metropolitan hub of Free City, discovers that he is a background character to the largest virtual-reality video game in the world.
A background character in a video game realizes the nature of his enslavement and fights his programmer overlords to save his virtual city and give its inhabitants their own free will.
An average man leading an average life in an average city discovers that he is a background character in a virtual reality video game after a glitch in his coding gives him free will.
Film
Action, Comedy, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller, Futuristic, Computer, Game, Internet, Technology
109
PG-13
Ultra High
M
Unspecified
30
Average
The Truman Show, The Matrix, Tron: Legacy
Time is unspecified, most likely current day or future. 1 week.
Free City: apartment, bank, baseball diamond, bar, ship, parking garage, high-tech tower, etc.
Outside World: Millie's home, Soonami headquarters, coffee shop
GUY (30s) is an average man living in Free City, working as a bank teller. Like every morning before, Guy wakes up, brushes his teeth, works out, eats a bowl of cereal, and grabs a cup of coffee before going to work. Along the way, he meets up with his best friend BUDDY.
Despite Buddy’s insistence, Guy can’t shake the feeling that he’s just going through the motions of life without any purpose. Before he can finish his though, a robber enters the bank and demands that everyone get on the ground. Complacent but without fear, Buddy and Guy get to the ground and discuss their evening plans of softball and drinking.
Later that day, during a game of softball, Guy notices an attractive girl walking by the diamond. Desperate to impress her, Guy tries to hit a home-run but fails, losing his team the game. Despite their loss, the team heads over to Timmy’s, a local bar, to end the day. The team is interrupted, however, by a seemingly crazy homeless man by the name of MAC who insists that everyone is complacent and part of a game. Everyone on the team dismisses him except...
Despite Buddy’s insistence, Guy can’t shake the feeling that he’s just going through the motions of life without any purpose. Before he can finish his though, a robber enters the bank and demands that everyone get on the ground. Complacent but without fear, Buddy and Guy get to the ground and discuss their evening plans of softball and drinking.
Later that day, during a game of softball, Guy notices an attractive girl walking by the diamond. Desperate to impress her, Guy tries to hit a home-run but fails, losing his team the game. Despite their loss, the team heads over to Timmy’s, a local bar, to end the day. The team is interrupted, however, by a seemingly crazy homeless man by the name of MAC who insists that everyone is complacent and part of a game. Everyone on the team dismisses him except...