Free Guy

Free Guy is a 2021 action comedy from 20th Century Studios starring Ryan Reynolds as a man who discovers he is a non-player character in an online game. Directed and produced by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, the film also stars Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Joe Keery, and Taika Waititi, as Reynolds’ character partners with a real player to find evidence that a gaming company’s CEO stole the player’s source code. Free Guy was released in the United States on August 13, 2021.

SCANable provided 3D scanning for the production, capturing cast members as high-resolution body scans. Our photogrammetry data supported the film’s visual effects teams with digital doubles and CG character work for its game-world spectacle.