Gran Turismo Movie Trailer Rips Camera Angles Straight From the PlayStation Game

The Gran Turismo movie conscionable got a sneak peek trailer. During Sony's CES 2023 presentation, held aboriginal Thursday, manager Neill Blomkamp came connected signifier to present the big-screen adaptation of the revered PlayStation racing title. The abbreviated teaser shows disconnected sleek cars and camera angles ripped consecutive from the games, alongside the archetypal look for David Harbour's character, Jack Salter, a retired racecar driver, who acts arsenic a mentor for the aboriginal generation. In the little trailer, the Stranger Things histrion tin beryllium seen supervising Gran Turismo players — the crippled being utilized arsenic a driving simulator.

As previously revealed, PlayStation's upcoming theatrical task is based connected the real-life communicative of Jann Mardenborough, the British racecar operator who kickstarted his vocation by participating successful the GT Academy grooming programme. The Gran Turismo sneak peek confirms that Archie Madekwe (Midsommar), volition indeed, carnivore the aforesaid name, grooming nether Salter to articulation the large leagues arsenic a nonrecreational racecar driver. “This movie is made for the cinema,” Orlando Bloom says successful the promo, whilst sporting a grey Nissan jacket, indicating his quality Danny Moore, is portion of Mardenborough's crew.

At the event, manager Blomkamp mentioned utilizing the Sony Venice 2 camera's detachable sensors to emulate camera angles from the game, noting it was peculiarly adjuvant for getting shots from wrong the cockpit. He promised 3 main camera angles successful the Gran Turismo movie, including the grill angle, a POV from wrong the car, and a third-person space from down the car, wherever the camera is mounted onto an arm. The seven-week filming of the Gran Turismo movie wrapped precocious past month, with stunt operator Mauro Calo claiming to person breached “new grounds connected however to movie contention cars really racing.”

The Gran Turismo franshise is among respective different first-party PlayStation games headed for a live-action adaptation. A Days Gone movie and a God of War series for Amazon Prime Video are successful the works, portion the upcoming HBO's The Last of Us series, volition premiere connected January 16 connected Disney+ Hotstar successful India. The Gran Turismo movie besides stars Darren Barnet (Love Hard), Djimon Hounsou (Shazam!), Spice Girls subordinate Geri Halliwell-Horner, Daniel Puig, Josha Stradowski, and Thomas Kretschman (Westworld).

Additionally, astatine the venue, Sony confirmed that Gran Turismo 7, the newest instalment successful the racing simulation franchise, is getting enactment for PS VR2, astatine motorboat connected February 22. Those who already ain the rubric connected a PS4 oregon PS5 volition summation entree to this caller mentation arsenic a escaped upgrade.

The Gran Turismo movie is slated to deed theatres connected August 11.

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