If you pressured me to jot down a listing of all of the online game franchises ripe for movie adaptation — a transition that traditionally has not been straightforward — Gran Turismo wouldn’t be within the prime 10. But a film model of Sony’s acclaimed and beloved racing simulator is certainly coming, and we now have a sneak peek. It seems surreal as hell.
The teaser trailer options all of the vroom vroom you’d count on, with quotes from stars Orlando Bloom, David Harbour and Archie Madekwe about how this can be a movie made for the cinemas, about the way it’s about greater than vehicles, it is about drama and a love story too.
So sure, Lord of the Rings’ Legolas teaming up with Stranger Things’ Jim Hopper for a Gran Turismo film directed by District 9’s Neill Blomkamp? It will completely be one thing. Check out the complete teaser under.
The sneak peek got here alongside an announcement at Sony’s press convention at CES in Las Vegas that Gran Turismo 7, the newest installment within the sequence, would get a free improve to VR when Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 headset launches.
The Gran Turismo sequence of racing video games started in 1997, and do not actually have a plot or characters that may be tailored. So the film attracts on a real story described by Sony as “the last word want fulfilment story of a teenage Gran Turismo participant whose gaming expertise gained a sequence of Nissan competitions to turn out to be an precise skilled race automotive driver.”
Following the success of its Uncharted movie adaptation, which grossed over $400 million on the international field workplace, Sony goes all-in on taking its gaming properties to movie and TV. Other upcoming PlayStation variations embrace TV exhibits primarily based on Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War (Amazon Prime Video), The Last of Us (HBO) and Twisted Metal (Peacock), and a film primarily based on Ghost of Tsushima.