'Free Guy' First Look Starring Ryan Reynolds Wows at New York Comic Con

Ryan Reynolds starring action-comedy, Free Guy has finally released its first look and needless to say, when Reynolds is involved, people are bound to get excited. At the New York Comic Con, the first look had audiences excited as a panel that included Reynolds was seated.

The panel, which featured Levy, Reynolds and co-stars Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Stranger Things' Joe Keery and Killing Eve's Jodie Comer — as well as a video appearance from Taika Waititi — quickly won the crowd over with its high concept: an NPC (nonplayable character) in a video game achieving sentience. This was accompanied by two clips and an advance trailer for the feature."On a very literal level, Free Guy is about Guy, who's a bank teller. He works in a bank, and his bank gets robbed 17 times in a day, and eventually he realizes that's weird and not normal," Levy told the audience after explaining that it's "exciting" that the panel knew almost nothing about the movie. "Ryan and I have talked about Free Guy as a superhero origin story without the cape and tights and the IP. If you were living in a video game and could master the system, your powers would be limitless."

Reynolds said, "I haven't been this fully immersed, engaged and pumped [about] something since Deadpool," Reynolds told the crowd. "It spoke to the moment in some way." Particularly, he said, it can seem like everyone's a background character in relation to current events in the world right now. "I was thrilled to dig in."

The panel ended with a look at an early trailer for the movie, which started with the self-aware onscreen caption, "From the studio that brought you Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King … twice." The action-packed trailer, which included suitably explosive gamelike action, also had Guy using a healing pack for the first time before asking, "Is this what recreational drugs feel like?"

Disney and 20th Century Fox open Free Guy on July 3, 2020.