Gran Turismo movie in development....wait wut?

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Video game franchises turned into Hollywood blockbuster movies have certainly come a long way since the days of Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon, yet each new adaptation still gives us pause as moviegoers. Even so, we're prepared to momentarily suspend our cynicism upon learning that Sony is readying a Gran Turismo big-screen treatment, following on the heels of Dreamworks' Need For Speed movie plans.

According to The Wrap, the movie is said to be proceeding under the direction of Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti, producers of Fifty Shades of Grey and The Social Network, with Sony executives Elizabeth Cantillon, DeVon Franklin and Hanna Minghella keeping a close eye on the project.

While not originating from a video game series, The Wrap notes that the Fast and The Furious series has become Universal Pictures' most bankable franchise, triggering a run on car-related movies as of late. Other auto films set to hit the theaters soon include Ron Howard's Rush and Snake and Mongoose, both based on historic motorsports battles.

No word yet on when the movie may see theaters, but it's likely that fans of the franchise will doubtlessly have their copies of Gran Turismo 6 (shown above) before the film's opening night.
 

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The first details regarding what the curious Gran Turismo movie will be about have surfaced. As it turns out, the film will tell the story not of cars or racing, but a person involved with those things.

Kazunori Yamauchi, longtime designer of the Gran Turismo series, gave a brief sense of what kind of story the movie will tell at Gamescom. Destructoid reports that he revealed the film will cover the life of Lucas Ordóñez, a Gran Turismo player-turned-professional racecar driver. Fans might recognize Ordóñez's name from his appearance in the Gran Turismo 6 demo, where he was featured as a previous winner of the GT Academy.

Yamauchi noted that offers for Gran Turismo movies have been coming in for the past seven years, but it wasn't until this one from Fifty Shades of Grey producers Mike de Luca and Dana Brunetti, that one of them were given the green light. Yamauchi's vision for the movie is for it to show the transformation of a video game player into a racing champion. He has talked in the past about how it's been his dream for a Gran Turismo player to become a racing driver.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/22/gran-turismo-movie-plot-outlined
 
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