Filmmakers are finally figuring out game adaptations, too. the World, Wreck-It Ralph (and its sequel), and Edge of Tomorrow-than movies based on specific games.
Granted, Hollywood has been better at making movies about or inspired by gaming-from Tron, WarGames, and The Last Starfighter to Scott Pilgrim vs. Director Shawn Levy has produced plenty of hits- Stranger Things, Arrival, Shadow and Bone, Dash & Lily-but before Free Guy, his record behind the camera for feature films was lackluster (an average Rotten Tomatoes score of 40.7 percent, peaking with Date Night’s 66 percent).Īnd then there’s the video game stigma. Unfailingly likable as he is, Reynolds has headlined more than his fair share of flops. Even so, the first non-IP-based Disney release in years-which may have gotten a boost at the box office because it didn’t receive a simultaneous streaming release-was far from a surefire smash.
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1 earner in its opening weekend good as in Disney has already asked for a sequel.Īlthough Free Guy has been feted for being the rare modern movie success that doesn’t rely on a preexisting property, it has blockbuster bona fides, including a reported budget of approximately $120 million, Disney’s marketing muscle, a big-name cast, and a veteran director. Good as in certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes good as in grade-A CinemaScore good as in beat its box-office projections and easily led as the no. Good as in no qualifiers needed, aside from the fact that we’re talking about a summer action comedy, not bait for Best Picture. Over the weekend, millions of American moviegoers discovered, as I did earlier this month, that Free Guy is good.
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Lieberman’s guilt as a gamer paid dividends when he conceived the story and wrote the original script for Free Guy, a Disney-distributed film released last Friday in which Ryan Reynolds plays a long-suffering NPC in a GTA-esque game. “I feel it’s karmically wrong to beat up NPCs in a game for no reason.” “I always had misgivings about torching NPCs,” he says. Lieberman will kill non-player characters if he has to- GTA makes it tough to complete a “ pacificist run”-but he doesn’t take virtual life lightly. But even as he flouts traffic rules, he still tries to steer clear of approaching pedestrians. When he plays Grand Theft Auto, Matt Lieberman has no qualms about running red lights.
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