Video game adaptations have been hit and (primarily) miss on screens, but for their new film, Free Guy, director Shawn Levy and star Ryan Reynolds are looking to concept not beholden to the likes of Halo.
Free Guy is, however, partly inspired by games such as the sprawling San Andreas crime stories, with just a hint of The Truman Show.
Originally written as a spec script by Matt Lieberman, the idea finds Reynolds as a bank teller stuck in his routine discovers he’s a background character in a brutal open world, action-adventure video game and he is the only one capable of saving his world.
It's early days for this one, with no shooting schedule or release date attached yet (and it may yet get caught up in the transition from Fox as an independent entity to it being part of Disney), but with the people involved, there's a good chance it'll make it to screens.
Reynolds has been at work on Michael Bay's 6 Underground, and he'll be heard as the lead voice in Detective Pikachu, due out on 10 May next year.
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