Keys works at Soonami as a content moderator alongside Mouser ( Utkarsh Ambudkar), and the two begin to investigate Guy, believing he's a player who hacked an NPC skin for himself.Įventually both Keys and Millie discover that Guy is actually an NPC who has begun to act beyond the boundaries of his programming, a realization that has huge implications not just for Millie's lawsuit and Antwan's company, but for the concept of Artificial Intelligence itself. In the real world, Molotov Girl is the username of a programmer named Millie ( Jodie Comer), who is pursuing a lawsuit against the publisher of Free City, Soonami Games, believing their CEO Antwan ( Taika Waititi) created the game using code stolen from an indie game called Life Itself that Millie had worked on with her friend Keys ( Joe Keery). Guy's level begins to shoot up and he becomes a viral sensation as players take notice of an NPC becoming a hero and fighting back against the players. Guy accepts this challenge, but he's unwilling to commit crimes to Level Grind, so he decides to stop them instead. He tries to catch Molotov Girl's eye, but she brushes him off as a noob and tells him to reach Level 100 if he wants to talk to her.
In the process he takes the player character's sunglasses and puts them on, allowing him to see the game's HUD and interact with the game like a player would. Guy's world changes when he falls in love with a player character named "Molotov Girl", and is motivated to stop a bank robbery instead of just going along with it like normal. A 2021 Science Fiction action comedy starring Ryan Reynolds and Jodie Comer and directed by Shawn Levy, Free Guy tells the story of Guy: a Non-Player Character bank teller in an online open-world video game called Free City, which is best described as a mash-up of Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite, where Player Characters (known to Guy as "Sunglasses People" for their distinctive eyewear) commit crimes and act like violent sociopaths for fun.