Free Guy swept audiences into a Grand Theft Auto-style universe that blurred the line between virtual worlds and reality with its amazing visual effects.
The line between digital creations and real-world experiences gets blurrier every day — particularly in Hollywood. Director Shawn Levy’s 2021 film Free Guy embraced that shrinking divide by following the adventures of Guy, a jovial character in a Grand Theft Auto-style multiplayer game who becomes self-aware and decides to become a hero and save his virtual world from deletion.
Right? It was the opening scene, and it had a lot of different levels. It’s a couple thousand frames, and it was initially a single shot from beginning to end as Badass, who’s played by Channing Tatum, free-dives into Free City. He soars down through the streets, lands in a convertible — which we designed digitally — and there’s another character, Beauty, in the car. He steals the car and then roars off through the streets, chased by police cars, helicopters, everything.
Well, we actually wanted it to look perfectly real, but that’s really difficult to do when you have some of these things going on and impossible camera moves. On set, they would occasionally record a performance and you could hear people say, “Well, it’s just a game.” And it was like, “No! That’s not the right attitude.” It’s a game, sure, but everything needs to look photo-real to pull it off.
There’s an Inception-like quality to what you have to do in the film, creating a real world within a game world that looks like a game world to everyone outside it, as well as the characters playing in it, but not to the characters living in it … That’s how we came up with the look for that reboot scene, and I’m pretty proud of it, too. It looked really neat and original, and afterward, we were like, “We only did it for one scene! How cool would it be if we could’ve used it for other shots?” But it is what it is, and it was a really special shot.
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