Ryan Reynolds and Shawn Levy Team Up for FREE GUY

Ryan Reynolds teams up with Shawn Levy for a Science fiction action comedy, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Reynolds is attached to star in the film, Free Guy, which will be directed by Levy. The comedy is is set up at 20th Century Fox. Levy is a director known for the Night at the Museum movies and as an executive producer of Stranger Things.

Free Guy, which was written by Matt Lieberman, tells the story of a background character who realizes he's living in a video game. With the help of an avatar, he tries to prevent the MAKERS of the game from shutting down his world.

20th Century FOX picked up the project as a spec script in 2016.

Reynolds and Levy would also produce, joining Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter as well as Adam Kolbrenner.

Read the original article on The Hollywood Reporter.