The first trailer for the Gran Turismo movie has been released
The first trailer for the movie based on Sony’s Gran Turismo franchise has been released and it is packed full of racing action, along with quite a lot of David Harbour being very sarcastic about video games. Check it out!
Directed by Neill Blomkamp (best known for his sci-fi action film District 9), and with a screenplay by Jason Hall and Zach Baylin, the Gran Turismo movie takes inspiration from the GT Academy programme that sought to take the fastest Gran Turismo players and try to transfer their skills in the digital realm to the real world of motorsports.
In particular, this movie is based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough (portrayed by Archie Madekwe), who won the third running of the GT Academy competition in 2011. After winning the competition, Mardenborough was signed to Nissan’s racing programme, competing in GT4 and GT3 categories, taking part in three runnings of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Super GT series in Japan, and more.
There’s a rather unusual cast surrounding this story, which includes Geri Halliwell-Horner (AKA Ginger Spice), Djimon Hounsou, Daniel Puig, Josha Stradowski and Thomas Kretschmann, with Hounsou playing Ginger’s husband. There’s also Stranger Things star David Harbour and Orlando Bloom. As you can see David Harbour is taking the roll of the video game sceptic and takes every opportunity to belittle the upcoming racers.
This is not the first attempt at a movie based on the game, in 2013, Sony announced that they were working on a Gran Turismo movie adaptation in collaboration with the game’s creator, Kazunori Yamauchi. The movie was said to be produced by Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti, who also produced the movie adaptation of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Then in 2015, it was reported that
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