Sony Pictures Plans Gran Turismo

[Octoberist]

Ummm..

A feature film version of the hit video game series Gran Turismo is on the way from Sony Pictures, The Wrap reports. Dana Brunetti and Mike De Luca are attached to produce.

The first Gran Turismo was released for Playstation in 1997 and boasted 140 different sport cars and 11 different racing environments. The most successful game franchise in Playstation history, Gran Turismo 6 is slated to hit shelves later this year.

The news comes in the wake of Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious 6 breaking records worldwide and earning more than $700 million internationally. DreamWorks Pictures, meanwhile, has their own racing franchise in the works, also based on a video game series. The Scott Waugh-directed Need for Speed will hit theaters March 14, 2014.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=106862

 

[Tanin]

So..a car racing movie.

Why would they need the game's name?

 

[Octoberist]

Branding, Tanin. Branding.

 

[MrMaooz]

I read this as Gran Torino.

 

[StarLord]

I read this as Gran Torino.

The ghost of Walt Kowalski drives around in a Subaru Impreza shouting out racial slurs.

 

[Lord]

Gran Turismo has allways been the "Classy" of racer games, maybe they should aim more for the likes of Gran Torino and Drive than Fast and Furious, nothing against that franchise but another adaptation is going to copy it (need for speed)

 

[Tanin]

Branding, Tanin. Branding.

They'd probably pay more for the brand name then they would getting fans of the game to see it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Pointless really.

 

[StarLord]

I spent many an hour (or five) playing GT but I haven't played any after GT3 A-Spec on PS2.

Did any of the games after that introduce a story or is it still the same?

 

[SuperFerret]

I remember that game being one of the first really popular "simulation" racers, where you'd feel like it was a real car. Total antithesis of fun as far as I'm concerned. Give me an F-Zero movie, and then I'll care.

 

[Octoberist]

Long live this thread!

 

[venom892]

They'd probably pay more for the brand name then they would getting fans of the game to see it.

They own the brand, so it doesn't cost a thing.

 

[Warhammer]

This brings back memories of when I devoted countless hours of my life to Gran Turismo 2:

 

[Gianakin_]

Need for Speed beat them to the punch.

 

[terry78]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=111661

Kevin Spacey has signed on as a producer, and Alex Tse, penner of Watchmen, is writing.

 

[MrMaooz]

Joseph Kosinski in Talks to Direct Sony's 'Gran Turismo' (Exclusive)

Joseph Kosinski, the filmmaker behind the sci-fi movies Oblivion and Tron: Legacy, is in early negotiations to direct Gran Turismo, Sony’s adaptation of the hit PlayStation video game.

The project is a favorite of Columbia Pictures co-president Michael De Luca's; he was a producer on it before taking his Sony post. DeLuca, who will remain a producer on Turismo, will oversee with newly arrived vp Matt Milam.

Dana Brunetti, Josh Bratman, DeVon Franklin and Elizabeth Cantillon are producing with DeLuca.

Plot details are being kept deep in the pit but at 2013’s Gamescon Kazunori Yamauchi, the lead designer of the Gran Turismo series, reportedly said it would center on a video game player turned racer.

That, however, was when the project had a script by Alex Tse. Sources tell Heat Vision that Kosinski will be developing a new script with the studio.

Kosinski has been itching for a racing movie for a while. The director spent a couple of years developing a movie based on Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans, written by A. J. Baime, for Fox. Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise were circling, but ultimately the project spun off the track and Kosinski moved on.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/joseph-kosinski-talks-direct-sonys-778675

 

[Black Narcissus]

Well, it will at least be pretty to look at.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

So a hack is going to direct a movie based on a car racing videogame? This should turn out well.

 

[MrMaooz]

I really wish he made Go Like Hell with Tom Cruise & Brad Pitt.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I read this as Gran Torino.

I read gran torino as gran turismo.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Well, it will at least be pretty to look at.

I'm with ya man. I loved the games growing up. Still do.

 

[TheVileOne]

Need for Speed worked out so well for everyone...

 

[marcvader]

Where the heck is the Forza movie they promised?

 

[terry78]

Where the heck is the Forza movie they promised?

Great, another movie about people driving luxury cars at normal speed.

 

[Octoberist]

Wayne "Gran" Turismo said he's outta the game. But THEY keep pulling him back in.

Jai Courtney is…….GRAN TURIMSO.