TAIKA WAITITI SURPRISES FANS AT “FREE GUY” OPENING NIGHT EVENT IN HOLLYWOOD

Taika Waititi surprised fans at the “Free Guy” Opening Night Fan Event at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood earlier tonight. Waititi, who plays the hilarious, over-the-top villain in “Free Guy” and is an Academy Award®-winning screenwriter (“Jojo Rabbit”) and the director of next summer’s “Thor: Love and Thunder,” took to the stage to introduce the film, where he was greeted with rapturous applause. Please share these images with your readers, and be sure to check out 20th Century Studios’ epic adventure comedy “Free Guy,” only in theaters August 13, 2021. Tickets are now available for purchase at: https://www.fandango.com or wherever tickets are sold.

In “Free Guy,” a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game decides to become the hero of his own story…one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who saves his world his way…before it is too late. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Lil Rel Howery, Joe Keery, Utkarsh Ambudkar and Taika Waititi, “Free Guy” is directed by Shawn Levy from a screenplay by Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn and a story by Lieberman. The film is produced by Ryan Reynolds, p.g.a., Shawn Levy, p.g.a., Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Adam Kolbrenner with Mary McLaglen, Josh McLaglen, George Dewey, Dan Levine and Michael Riley McGrath serving as executive producers.