# whatever happened to Ryan Reynolds movie where he plays an NPC in a video game?

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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-ryan-reynolds-movie-where-he-plays-an-npc-in-a-video-game/851901/1 "2020-04-16T05:49:42Z")

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This should be an easy one…

I remember seeing previews quite a few months back for a new Ryan Reynolds movie.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of it. Ryan plays a non-playing character (NPC) in a video game that “wakes up” and realizes that he actually is living IN a video game.

What was the name of this movie? And what happened to it?

J.

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**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-ryan-reynolds-movie-where-he-plays-an-npc-in-a-video-game/851901/2 "2020-04-16T06:01:04Z")

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Free Guy. Releases later this year. I think it was scheduled for July.

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-ryan-reynolds-movie-where-he-plays-an-npc-in-a-video-game/851901/3 "2020-04-16T13:05:12Z")

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> **[Free Guy (2021) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6264654/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6)**
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> Free Guy: Directed by Shawn Levy. With Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery. A bank teller discovers that he's actually an NPC inside a brutal, open world video game.

You can look up movies in pre and post production on IMDB. They usually have a runway of a year or two.

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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-ryan-reynolds-movie-where-he-plays-an-npc-in-a-video-game/851901/4 "2020-04-16T13:58:58Z")

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Thanks.

J.

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2020, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-ryan-reynolds-movie-where-he-plays-an-npc-in-a-video-game/851901/5 "2020-04-16T14:08:36Z")

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Pretty much all movie releases were delayed or changed by the shutdown in production and shutdown of theaters. Cinemark, for example, doesn’t plan to open its theaters until July 1 and even then only some of its theaters will open.