Seems like the next destination Grand Touring It will be a movie, not a small screen. As reported term, PlayStation Productions has been preparing a film based on its popular racing game and has already chosen a director. would be South African Neil Blomkamprecognized especially for science fiction feature films such as District No. 9, Elysium D guy.
However, it is worth noting that said account is somewhat vague as to the director targeted by this production. Blomkamp is referred to as “understanding” study, but it is not specified how far negotiations with him have progressed – if they have begun at all – and whether they have already received his commitment to lead the project. This indicates that the development of the film adaptation is at a very early stage.
In case the project does go as Sony intended, it remains to be seen where the plot is planned to be set. Grand Touring is nothing more than a car racing simulator, and throughout the franchise, since its introduction in 1997 on the original PlayStation, there was no storyline or characters.
Another important point to note is that at first they thought that the adaptation would be in the format of a TV series, not a movie. This is what the novelty came to light with confirmations of TV adaptations god of Warwhich will appear on Amazon Prime Video, and Zero dawn horizonwhich will be released on Netflix. However, this initial interpretation appears to have been incorrect.
Is there any real reason to worry about the film Grand Touring?
This question is rather difficult to answer given that little or no details have been revealed about it. Screen adaptation news Grand Touring, god of War D Zero dawn horizon this was confirmed at a Sony trade briefing, but PlayStation Productions has yet to make a public statement about it.
In addition, we note that there has been an attempt to film Grand Touring that did not flourish. It was in 2013 that Jim Ryan himself, the current President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, confirmed its development. Michael de Luca and Dana Brunetti were even mentioned as producers, and at the same time Joseph Kosinski was linked – on everyone’s lips today for his great work on Top Shooter: Maverick– as a director.
Nonetheless, never seen the light. The project remained in the background until, in 2018, Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of the video game saga Grand Touring, decided that he sees no future for this issue. “I have a feeling that things will not go any further,” the CEO of Polyphony Digital said at the time, and this topic was simply not discussed.
If Sony publicly confirms that Gran Turismo will hit theaters, it will be interesting to see what point of view Neil Blomkamp takes, assuming the South African actually takes the reins on the project. The director has experience in interpreting action in his films, although so far no one had anything to do with racing cars. His last work was Demonicfrom 2021, a horror feature film also written and produced by him, which was very poorly received by critics.
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