Garry's Mod: The Movie

Garry's Mod: The Movie (also known as The Garry's Mod Movie) is a 2025 live-action-adventure-sci-fi-dramatic-comedy-computer-animated film based on the 2006 computer video game of the same name created by Facepunch Studios lead by Harry Newman. A film based on this game was produced by Columbia Pictures and Tencent Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, and the film was directed by J. J. Abrams with Garry Newman himself, as well as film was produced by Tim Burton and Avi Arad. The film was released in worldwide successful, earning a budget of $ 2.3 billion for the entire release.

In the center of the film is the most ordinary teenager Michael (Andrew Garfield), who lives the most ordinary life, but one day his life changed. On one normal day for him, he wakes up in a place unknown to him, which, as he later learns, has the name gm_construct, where people live who invent various mechanisms and have fun. While exploring a new area, Michael meets the owner of the place, Garry Newman (Garry Newman himself), and he offers Michael a challenge to catch intruders from some of Garry's other places. In return for this, Michael will get the opportunity to return home.

Main cast

 * Andrew Garfield as Michael, main protagonist of the film. A guy who lives an ordinary and rather boring life. During his ordeal, he will realize that his life can change for the better and turn from ordinary to really interesting.
 * Garry Newman as Himself, the creator of many places from his world, it was he who gave the test to Michael, in exchange for his return home. Along the way, throughout the test, he will follow and help Michael.
 * Matt Frewer as The "Sharpened", the main antagonist of the film, who ended up in one of the worlds created by Garry Newman. He was also from the real world, like Michael.

Secondary cast

 * Charlie Cox as Samuel, one of the residents of gm_construct who met Michael and introduced him to Garry Newman.
 * Dove Cameron as Mary, one of those who also met Michael. Trades in spare parts for mechanisms.
 * Benedict Cumberbatch as Greg the Fisherman, an old fisherman, is the father of Samuel and often competes with him and makes fun of him.

Cameo cast

 * Hugh Laurie as Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of the Half-Life game series by Valve.
 * Jessica Henwick as Chell, the protagonist of the Portal game series by Valve.
 * Dave Bautista as Heavy Weapons Guy, the one of the characters in the game Team Fortress 2 from Valve.
 * Willem Dafoe as G-Man, antagonist of the Half-Life game series by Valve.
 * Gabe Newell as himself, creator of the Portal and Half-Life series of games, as well as Team Fortress.

Development
The film was announced in 2022, but the idea for the film came to Garry Newman in 2019. He approached many studios many times, but he was always rejected due to an insufficient script for the film. After that, the idea to make a movie was canceled until Garry approached J.J. Abrams with an idea for a script. Initially, they planned to make the film full animated and planned a contract with Sony Pictures Animations. Sony gave the green light to the production of the film, but only if it was a live action film and not full animated.

Writing
J.J. Abrams wrote as many as 10 screenplays for this film. But only the last of them seemed more normal to him and Garry. Toward this point, the rights to work on the film were acquired by Columbia Pictures in conjunction with Tencent Pictures, who also well approved the idea of the script.

Casting
Initially, Zachary Gordon was planned for the role of the main character Michael, but he had to refuse this role. But a replacement was quickly found and it became - Andrew Garfield.

Filming
The filming took place from 2022 to 2025. Also, filming was suspended in 2024 for 3 months.

Sequels
The film became successful and in connection with this, 2 sequels were released:


 * Garry's Mod: The Movie 2 (2028)
 * Garry's Mod: The Movie 3 (2033)

Featured items

 * Physicgun
 * Gravitygun
 * Portalgun
 * Machine gun
 * Scrap
 * Camera
 * Tool gun

Featured songs

 * A Message To You Mowgli
 * Meet the Garry!
 * Forward!
 * City 17 ambiance
 * Portal 2 - Main theme
 * GMan theme
 * Human
 * Half-Life credits theme

More TBD!