WMG / Free Guy

The video game within the movie will be Defictionalized.

• Which one?
  • Y'know, Free City. Even if it does feel like Grand Theft Auto Online.
    • Wouldn’t that undermine the themes of the film though?
    • As if that's ever stopped Disney.
  • More likely a variation of Free Life, as social interaction sims are actually pretty popular — just hard to make any money from.
    • So... basically... The Sims, but without player interaction?

The sequel will have Guy explored the internet and/or other video games.

• Like a live action Ralph Breaks the Internet?
• Imagine a few years on when Free Life is facing dwindling revenue and visitors. Needing some way to keep the lights on for the NPCs, Keys and Millie collab with other studios so that the NPCs are essentially hired to act as such in other games. They become the AI equivalent of actors.

This movie takes place within the Orion's Arm universe.

Hear me out. It takes place shortly before 90 AT, with Guy and the other NPCs being very close to, but not quite at turinggrade level. After the events of the movie, they eventually got refined into a proper AI that can pass the Turing test, and history goes on from there.

The sequel will have a Contrasting Sequel Antagonist.

• Instead of a human Corrupt Corporate Executive, it will be a NPC turned rogue AI who will be an Evil Counterpart of Guy.
  • I like the idea of "Bad Guy" ( but wasn't that Dude's job?)
    • This Troper can practically smell the Doki Doki Literature Club! jokes, given that both the movie and the visual novel have similar themes.

Antwan will return in the sequel

• If Taika Waititi directs again, he's almost certain to reprise the role. Antwan will likely become a panned creator who nobody in the industry really takes seriously any longer. Soonami, having lost so much money on his boondoggle, will be acquired by a merger, likely an Activision expy this time.
  • Taika did not direct the movie. Shawn Levy did.

If there is a sequel...

• ... Telepresence technology will feature allowing the two "worlds" to interact.
  • Tachikoma's would be acceptable.
• … will have Guy explored the internet and/or other video games.
  • Especially if these video games also has Guy-like characters.
• Or, due to the current development in Augmented Reality technology, maybe Free Life gets the AR treatment and Guy is able to finally experience the real world through said tech.

The sequel will be about the "Real World" is a simulation InsideAComputerSystem as well.

• I know it's kind of lame but someone had to post this.
  • So... Simulacron-3 by Daniel Galouye/The Thirteenth Floor, but for Free Guy?

NPC downtime activities had practical effects on gameplay

• Perhaps drinking coffee,etc, was used as a metaphor for automated system maintenance for example

Soonami actually a pretty small company

• Despite worldwide coverage of their game-play their user base, and thus computer capabilities, was quite limited.
  • This seems to be true for several reasons, including but not limited to the fact that according to the movie, they apparently have one data center located in the same building as the developers. For comparison, World of Warcraft has at least ten in like six different cities; Final Fantasy 14 has eight.

If the sequel goes ahead, Guy will get an in-game girlfriend

• In fact, Keys and Millie will program her to be based on 'molotovgirl' and she'll carry a message to Guy giving him an update on their lives i.e. Millie telling Guy she's married the man who wrote Guy as a love letter, or that they have a kid.

Buddy actually was deleted

• The sequel, if it materializes, will have the shocking twist that new Buddy is a sunglasses person or perhaps a virus.

Blue Shirt Guy's religious

• picking up and running with how he articulates existential crisis and being created.

When the second film comes around, Dude will not be the same "half-brain" self as he had been in the first film.

One of the things about the AI code is that the NPCs are able to evolve. In Dude's case, the only logical course for him to evolve is to become more than "half-brained" than he was in the last act of the film. Due to Free Life running on, by the time the second film comes, he will actually be more articulate and able to process things better due to interacting with the other NPCs. He'll still have his occasional moment of slipping back to old ways, inadvertently calling out his actions, but he will develop into an articulate and intelligent NPC as Free Life continues to run.

• makes sense since most of his personality was left blank in the film.

The sequel will confirm that the barista and the bombshell are a couple.

I don't expect anything major, but maybe there'll be a cute Meaningful Background Event of them holding hands or on a date or something.

In the sequel, Guy manages to find love - and a major subplot focuses on them having a baby!

• Quite naturally, the existence of Guy Jr would bring up new questions about the creation of life in a virtual world.
• Alternatively, the sequel has a Time Skip of about twenty years or so. Millie and Keys are married (with children), and there is an entire second generation of AI in The Metaverse (comprising Free Life and many other virtual worlds) born to first-generation AI (the generation of Guy, Buddy, Dude, Bombshell, and Barista Girl). A major focus is on the interaction of "real world" people and AI people, with virtual reality now being fully immersive.

Captain America's shield, the Hulk fist powerup, and the lightsaber weren't a part of Free City.

• Keys helped mod them into Guy's inventory to give him an advantage and maybe get Antwan sued by Disney if their plan didn't work.

Free Life will soon become the birth place of AI operating systems.

• Unlike in her (2013), operating systems would have digital representations of bodies - and they wouldn't upgrade nearly as fast as the operating systems in the aforementioned film do. However, as operating systems, they would have access to more abilities and powers than NPCs do.

In the sequel, Guy and the other denizens of Free Life gain the ability to explore the rest of the Internet (The Metaverse?).

• They even meet denizens from other video games, as well as possibly other (sapient/sentient) internet constructs - making it a sci-fi version of Ralph Breaks the Internet. Perhaps, even the Disney princesses could make an appearance - with divergences from their film counterparts due to AI and free will. They aren't really their film counterparts, naturally - but the film plots are programmed into their memories.