Sony’s Gran Turismo Film Begins Filming With 4 Nissan GT-Rs

Sony is adapting its iconic racing online game franchise for the large display. The film kicked off manufacturing in late September, and a brand new submit to Sony and Gran Turismo‘s Twitter accounts reveals that filming has began. The film is scheduled to hit theaters on August 11, 2023.

Accompanying the announcement was a photograph that sadly doesn’t reveal a lot concerning the film. It exhibits a clapperboard in focus with a row of at the least 4 Nissan GT-R coupes sitting within the background, however they’re blurred and obscured from view. They look like sporting race liveries, because the film’s plot revolves round a younger teenage online game participant who turns into an expert race automobile driver after profitable a collection of Nissan competitions.

The film appears like Sony’s GT Academy that helped Gran Turismo gamers translate their online game expertise to the rear world. The academy educated gamers to grow to be professional drivers, and it resulted in producing actual race winners. Lucas Ordóñez scored podiums on the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The film stars David Harbour, of Stranger Issues fame, who will function the child’s coach. Orlando Bloom and Darren Barnet can even star within the Neill Blomkamp-directed movie. Blomkamp is greatest recognized for his sci-fi works, comparable to District 9, Elysium, and Chappie. Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is serving as an government producer. Jason Corridor and Zach Baylin, of American Sniper and King Richard fame, respectively, wrote the script.

Harbor stated in a Collider interview this week that “there is a visceralness to this film” with Blomkamp within the director’s chair, including, “I am unable to wait so that you can see this film.”

The Gran Turismo online game franchise started life in 1997 on the unique Sony PlayStation online game console. The franchise’s eighth installment, Gran Turismo 7, launched earlier this yr for the PlayStation 4 and 5, with over 400 automobiles accessible to gamers. The Gran Turismo film is simply the newest online game property to get the Hollywood therapy. The studio’s Uncharted movie got here out earlier this yr, and the corporate can also be engaged on a Twisted Steel TV collection.