Disney has announced that filming is now underway on Free Guy, director Shaun Levy’s (Night at the Museum) adventure comedy starring Ryan Reynolds (Pokemon: Detective Pikachu).
The film will see Reynolds playing a a lonely bank teller who discovers he is actually an NPC, a background character, in the open-world videogame Free City.
Production on Free Guy is taking place in Boston, with Reynolds starring alongside Jodie Comer (Killing Eve), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Taika Waititi (Avengers: Endgame), Joe Keery (Stranger Things), and Utkarsh Ambudkar (Mulan).
Reynolds can currently be seen in theaters voicing the title character in Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and has the Michael Bay action thriller 6 Underground arriving on Netflix later this year.
Originally published May 15, 2019. Updated May 16, 2019.
