Here’s your first look at Gran Turismo, the big-screen, live-action adaptation of the popular racing video game from Sony and PlayStation Productions.
The pic stars David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell Horner and Djimon Hounsou.
Plot is based on the true story of British racing driver Jann Mardenborough, a teenage Gran Turismo gamer whose skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race-car driver.
Directed by Neill Blomkamp with a screenplay by Jason Hall and Zach Baylin, the film is produced by Doug Belgrad, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, and Dana Brunetti. Executive producers are Kazunori Yamauchi, Herman Hulst, Hall, and Matthew Hirsch.
Sony previously shared footage from the pic at Cinemacon last week. Harbour and Bloom also came to the stage to introduce the first look, with Harbour quipping that his first reaction on being asked to join the project was: “How are you guys going to make a movie out of a racing game?… There’s no story in the game. That’s when Neill told me about Jann Mardenborough and his incredible true story.”
The trailer features Harbour’s racing coach character as skeptical that gamers could ever be real race car drivers, telling Bloom’s Nissan exec, “Your kids are scrawny little gamers.” As training progresses, so does Jann, but he’s warned, “If you miss a line on the game, you reset. If you miss it on the track, you could die.”
Check out the trailer above.
