Free Guy is a 2021 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, and a story by Lieberman. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as a bank teller who discovers that he is actually a non-player character in an open-world video game and becomes the hero of the story, trying to save his friends from deletion by the game's creator. Taika Waititi, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, and Utkarsh Ambudkar also star in the film. Release date: August 13, 2021 (USA) Director: Shawn Levy Budget: $100–125 million Story by: Matt Lieberman Music by: Christophe Beck Production; companies: Berlanti Productions; 21 Laps Entertainment; Maximum Effort; Lit Entertainment Group; TSG Entertainment;