news culture This GTA and Fortnite inspired film is coming to Disney+
If you missed this beautiful cinematic tribute to video games, it’s time to catch up! Free Guy actually arrives on Disney+ and with it a good moment of entertainment full of references reminiscent of a certain Fortnite or even GTA.
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- A good video game movie?
- Disney plays Fortnite
A good video game movie?
You know it as well as we do: when cinema mixes with video games, it’s rarely good news. If recent productions (Unexplored, Pokemon Detective Pikachu) and come (Super Mario Bros., the movies) let us look a little more optimistically at the next adaptations, it is difficult not to remember the many attempts made by Hollywood in the past. Mortal Kombat, Prince of Persia, Need for Speed, Resident Evil, Assassin’s Creed, so many cult licenses have had the misfortune to find themselves in the sights of some film producers who were more attracted by an adaptation’s potential success on the big screen than by respect for the original work.
But just because cinema has rarely managed to make a good video game adaptation doesn’t mean it’s incapable of grappling with the subject. That’s what he was trying to prove Free guy, hitting theaters on August 11, 2021. Directed by Shawn Levy (stranger things, night at the museum), It features Guy (played by Ryan Reynolds) who is nothing more than a simple NPC in an open-world video game. As the real gamers keep shooting each other through what looks like a GTA playground, Guy lives his programmed life with little else to do until the day he manages to take control of his destiny to take by falling in love with a player. A seemingly classic scenario, but which produces quite successful entertainment.
Disney plays Fortnite
Free Guy is available on Disney+ tomorrow, Friday, January 13th, and it does indeed offer viewers the opportunity to immerse themselves in a world that will reflect many players. If, as we told you above, its open world will quickly give you the impression of playing the next Grand Theft Auto, Shawn Levy’s film will not be content to remain superficial in its references.
Skins, secondary missions, points, bugs and many other elements typical of video games in general await you in this feature film that even allows you to drop some objects straight from cult licenses to give everything a Fortnite side. But on top of all that fan service side, you’ll also be able to enjoy lovable characters and a little bit deeper than you’d expect from such entertainment. If you are fascinated by the trailer, the script or even the actors of the film, you only have to go to Disney+ to see it on your screens tomorrow.
