With video game adaptations enjoying more success these days – including Sony's Uncharted – the studio is looking to keep that particular bandwagon rolling... or in this case, speeding. The idea of a Gran Turismo movie adaptation is being hauled out of the garage, with Neill Blomkamp approached to develop and direct it.
The racing game, created by Kazunori Yamauchi for company Polyphony in 1997, was hailed as one of the most authentic driving simulators in its class for its focus on precise graphics, driving physics and attention to detail of its cars, which players would build and race. The series has sold more than 85 million copies, with the most recent edition, Gran Turismo 7, hitting shelves in March for PS 4 and PS 5.
This is far from the first time that Sony has tried to make this one work, originally throwing an adaptation into gear when Need For Speed was on the way to screens. That, obviously, hit the fences at the box office and Turismo was quietly sent back into storage. But through the years, different people have become attached to make it, including director Joseph Kosinski, who went on to channel a different type of vehicle for Top Gun: Maverick, which is soaring at the box office.
Blomkamp is far from confirmed for this one, so Gran Turismo could still end up stalling once more.