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For the Third Year in a Row, There’s a New Trailer for Free Guy

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Published on June 10, 2021

Screenshot: 20th Century Studios
Screenshot: 20th Century Studios

A lot of movies have been delayed in the last year, but Free Guy feels especially like it’s been coming soon forever. Originally scheduled for July 3, 2020, it now has a “no, really!” release date of August 13th—only in theaters.

The latest trailer is a lot like the the last trailer, and also features someone in a bunny suit.

Free Guy stars Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a chipper, friendly sort whose world is rattled when he learns he’s actually a non-player character in an open-world video game—and it’s about to be destroyed by its mercurial creator (Taika Waititi, who’s reason to see this film all on his own). He learns all of this from a mysterious and attractive woman (an almost unrecognizable Jodie Comer) who for some reason makes a really dated joke about how if he’d determined to be a great guy, he’ll be a virgin forever.

This mash-up of video games and oh-no-reality-is-a-lie movies (a little bit Truman Show, a little bit Ready Player One, a little bit a lot of other things) looks charming in large part because of Reynolds, whose utter determination to keep being a good dude has a kind of endearingly teeth-gritted cheer. Lil Rel Howery (Get Out) plays his best buddy, Buddy; Joe Keery (Stranger Things) shows up (with the bunny suit person?); and apparently Alex Trebek has a cameo?

Free Guy is directed by Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb), and written by the slightly odd pair of Matt Lieberman (2019’s The Addams Family) and Zak Penn (Ready Player One and X-Men: The Last Stand).

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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