{"id":315919,"date":"2021-08-05T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/free-guy-villain-was-inspired-by-a-studio-executive-film\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T17:20:31","slug":"free-guy-villain-was-inspired-by-a-studio-executive-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/free-guy-villain-was-inspired-by-a-studio-executive-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Free Guy Villain Was Inspired by a Studio Executive \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406f82154d2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406f82154d2\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/free-guy-villain-was-inspired-by-a-studio-executive-film\/#The_Great_Debate\" >The Great Debate<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Free Guy Villain Was Inspired by a Studio Executive \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-691344 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/free-guy-poster-e1628177704200-700x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/free-guy-poster-e1628177704200-700x433.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/free-guy-poster-e1628177704200-360x223.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/free-guy-poster-e1628177704200.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been fortunate enough to head out to the theaters in recent weeks on multiple occasions, you\u2019ve likely weathered a barrage of <em><strong>Free Guy<\/strong><\/em> trailers. The film, ostensibly a feature-length riff on video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s, gaming culture, and video game <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, is finally about to release next week. But some crucial aspects concerning its villain, for instance, turned out to be based on some very real-world examples courtesy of the studio system.<\/p>\n<p>After finding out everything there is to know about <em>Free Guy<\/em>,\u00a0\/Film had the opportunity to interview filmmaker\u00a0<strong>Shawn Levy. <\/strong>The <em>Cheaper by the Dozen,<\/em>\u00a0<em>Night at the Museum<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Stranger Things <\/em>director, no stranger himself to navigating the industry\u2019s current obsession with franchises and sequels and reboots,\u00a0talked about how <strong>Taika Waititi\u2019s<\/strong> highly anticipated role as the villain of the film first came into shape. Waititi\u2019s Antwan is a game developer dead set on closing down the Free City game in favor of the next best thing: a bigger and badder sequel.\u00a0Naturally, this invites a sort of meta debate into the film as to the benefits of original stories against ongoing IPs. Hilariously enough, Levy reveals the actual conversation he had with a certain (unnamed) studio executive that served as inspiration for that particular villain\u2019s motivation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post -->\u201c\u2026I just thought it was funny, because early on, an executive, who I won\u2019t name, said, \u2018Okay, so this movie Free Guy, what\u2019s it based on?\u2019 And we were like, \u2018Nothing.\u2019 And the executive is like, \u2018Okay, you say nothing, but like, so it\u2019s not a sequel. Is it based on a comic book, graphic novel? What?\u2019 Like, \u2018No, no, nothing. New ideas.\u2019 Like, \u2018So it\u2019s a movie based on nothing?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Yeah. Based on creative originality.\u2019 And it was like such a foreign concept to this suit, that I wrote most of that as dialogue for Taika Waititi.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only incredible thing about that story is just how easy it is to believe that the conversation took place almost exactly as Levy recalls, word-for-word. We can\u2019t imagine that essentially making Waititi\u2019s character a stand-in for studio cluelessness went over well with whoever that might\u2019ve been, but it\u2019s an undeniably amusing way to channel real-life frustration into an authentic character. Hat\u2019s off to you, Shawn Levy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-691042 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Webp.net-resizeimage-39-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Webp.net-resizeimage-39.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Webp.net-resizeimage-39-360x202.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Great_Debate\"><\/span>The Great Debate<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When asked which side of that original versus sequel\/reboot argument he comes down on, Levy responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell, I\u2019d like to think there\u2019s a place for both. It was very fun to write Antwan, mocking the value of an original story, even as we are making an original story. It\u2019s so rare that studios will give you a big budget to make a blockbuster movie, that isn\u2019t a sequel, that isn\u2019t based on any existing IP. And as the director, I know how lucky I am to get that opportunity. I\u2019ve done it a few times in my career, where you make something new, and then it becomes a franchise. And it\u2019s very, very gratifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><\/p>\n<p>Levy\u2019s definitely not exaggerating. As grating as the marketing might have been, the wholly original summer blockbuster <em>is<\/em>\u00a0a black sheep amid the ongoing IP-driven craze. Getting these sorts of big budgets stories pitched, greenlit, and finally funded is far from a simple task, which helps explain the need for <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong>\u2018 star power to lead the film and ideally draw in more viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Those very same viewers can expect to catch <em>Free Guy<\/em>\u00a0in theaters on\u00a0<strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">August 13, 2021<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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