Production designer Ethan Tobman (“Room”) considers himself an “emotional architect” when it comes to world building.
And, with “Free Guy,” in which Ryan Reynolds portrays Guy, an Npc (non-player character) in the video game, “Free City” (“Grand Theft Auto” on steroids), who unlocks his sentient AI super powers, Tobman was able to construct a unique virtual world around his character arc.“I related to the concept and the satire of someone who feels he’s an afterthought,” Tobman said.
“He’s a half-developed, background character who’s destined for something more but can’t figure out why he feels like a cog in a machine.
That’s something a lot of us feel, and the idea of creating a world around that concept was such an enormous intellectual and creatively juicy challenge.”The Fox fantasy adventure, directed by Shawn Levy (“Night at the Museum”) and produced by Reynolds (but greenlit
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