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Sony offers a sneak peek at Neil Blomkamp’s ‘Gran Turismo’ film
Sony’s CES press conference is always a real smorgasbord of the electronics giant’s different media offerings. Tonight it kicked things off my bringing District 9 director, Neil Blomkamp, to offer some insight into the filming of his upcoming Gran Turismo adaptation. Sony’s perfected a lot of unique camera tricks in order to capture the look […]
Sony offers a sneak peek at Neil Blomkamp’s ‘Gran Turismo’ film by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo film certainly looks and sounds like Gran Turismo
So that’s what Gran Turismo is really about. The first Gran Turismo teaser shows off sleek cars and angles ripped straight out of the game franchise, all from the lens of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Blomkamp helped introduce the short video during Sony’s CES 2023 show, where executives played up their plans to adapt even more game franchises to film and television. Gran Turismo is due to hit theaters on August 11th.
The film is based on a true story, apparently — it follows a teenage Gran Turismo player who uses his sweet gaming skills to become a real-world racecar driver. The teenager is played by Archie Madekwe (Simon from Midsommar), and the movie also stars David Harbour (Stranger Things), Orlando Bloom (the early 2000s) and Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice).
The Gran Turismo movie has spent some time in development hell — much like the video game series itself, which has a reputation for being delayed. A version of the film was completely scrapped in 2018 after spending five years in development, and Blomkamp is the second director to be attached to a Gran Turismo project. However, things have moved quickly since development on the current movie started in May 2022, with filming wrapped by that December.
Gran Turismo isn’t the only game-film crossover project in the works at Sony. There’s a whole HBO series based on The Last of Us premiering January 15th, a Twisted Metal show heading to Peacock, and a film based on Ghost of Tsushima still to come.
Sony shows racing footage from Gran Turismo movie coming in August — and GT is coming to PSVR 2
Sony showed off some footage of its Gran Turismo racing movie coming out on August 11. The execs in charge of the movie, including director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) showed off the racing footage from the high-octane movie. The film is based on a true story about a gamer who played the Gran Turismo series […]
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Celebrating 25 Years of Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo 7 Update 1.27 going live today with five new cars including the recently unveiled Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo
Gran Turismo 7 To Celebrate Series’ 25th Anniversary With Exclusive In-Game Content
Gran Turismo 7 will be celebrating its 25th anniversary of the franchise by rewarding players with special in-game items, bonus rewards, and more.
From now until December 5, players can increase their rewards for each race in Sports mode. This mode features a race similar to the one in the World Finals, but will allow players to earn up to five times the amount of credits upon completion. Players will also be able to earn additional credit through Online Time Trails, which task racers with completing tracks of the World Finals races in a limited amount of time.
Those who tune into any Gran Turismo 7 live streams will be rewarded the Viewers Gift, and if they watch the World Finals and answer the Day 4 question, they’ll receive the Ferrari Vision Gran Turismo. The last day to earn these rewards is December 4 at 7:59 AM PST / 3:59 PM GMT.