Star Joe Keery said the film does “such a great job at giving a really great nod to video game culture”. **WARNING: SPOILERS** <\/p>
In his brand new movie Free Guy<\/a>, Ryan Reynolds stars as a non-playable character (NPC) living inside a video game, whose world is turned upside down when an encounter with the woman of his dreams causes him to become self-aware.<\/p>\n While the film might not be based on an actual existing game, it has certainly been influenced by real-world pop culture, with a whole host of Easter Eggs thrown in for fans to enjoy.<\/p>\n The movie features a huge number of Twitch streamers and YouTubers, many of whom are considered a major part of the gaming community \u2013 with the likes of\u00a0Jacksepticeye,\u00a0Ninja,\u00a0Pokimane,\u00a0DanTDM and\u00a0LazarBeam all making appearances to comment on the action over the course of the film.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, several of the video game characters are also played by high-profile actors, with Channing Tatum given a particularly memorable role and the likes of \u00a0Hugh Jackman,\u00a0Dwayne Johnson, Tina Fey and John Krasinski all making cameo voice appearances.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s not even mentioning the presence of late Jeopardy host Alex Trebek in one scene, or the appearance of a major franchise star during a surprise crossover sequence that fans probably won\u2019t see coming.<\/p> Many of the Easter Eggs are on a smaller scale, though \u2013 taking place in the background and relating simply to common video game behaviours, such as accidentally walking up against a wall, or the indifference with which many background characters treat the violence and chaos around them.<\/p>\n \u201cThis movie was about threading the needle between wanting to represent the gaming world correctly and accurately,\u201d director Shawn Levy told RadioTimes.com<\/a> and other press at a recent Q&A. \u201cAnd for that I spoke with a lot of game publishers, coders and game designers, and played and watched a lot of games in pre-production, so getting that right was really important.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI actually think we\u2019ve done a great job at giving a really great nod to video game culture,\u201d added star Joe Keery. \u201cThere are so many funny little things.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I\u2019m not a huge gamer myself, but there\u2019s this great shot in the movie and it\u2019s during this montage sequence. You see this character in the background is played by real-life person and you know, in those first-person shooter games, when people crouch, there\u2019s this very specific funny motion and it means something.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd so we see this character do that in the background. It\u2019s just like a small one or two-second thing, but it\u2019s really funny and dead-on. And I think it speaks to the whole culture of giving a good tip of the hat to the video game culture.\u201d<\/p>\n As for star Jodie Comer, there was one in-joke that she particularly liked: \u201cI really enjoyed noticing the people who were constantly running against the wall,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve been there so many times. I was like, that\u2019s so true!\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Utkarsh Ambudkar who also stars in the film, says, \u201cAs somebody who plays a lot and logs a lot of hours in that space, it really is true to that world and the people that occupy it \u2013 it\u2019s very fun. 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