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They couldn't afford Samuel L Jackson. Oops !! I meant Lawrence Fishburne! Sorry.
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How do you even make a zero-to-hero racing driver story interesting and original? We've seen it a thousand times, they get started and do well, they hit a stumbling block of some sort (Big crash, rivalry with driver who is an ass) 2/3 of the way through, then at the end they prosper and win [the thing]. Everyone celebrates.
Ford Vs Ferrari was interesting because it told the personal story of Ken Miles alongside the generic Vs plot, and with all due respect to Jan Mardenborough, Miles is/was a far more interesting character. Mardenborough is your pretty typical racing driver character so they'll have to fictionalise him a fair bit to make the character someone to care about.
Ford Vs Ferrari was interesting because it told the personal story of Ken Miles alongside the generic Vs plot, and with all due respect to Jan Mardenborough, Miles is/was a far more interesting character. Mardenborough is your pretty typical racing driver character so they'll have to fictionalise him a fair bit to make the character someone to care about.
There's a reason we have so many remakes and superhero movies. There aren't any original stories.
If you boil down any movie plot you can make it sound as tedious as you wish. We'd have no idea if you're talking about an Oscar winner or straight-to-home video trash. It comes down to how it's executed.
For a car movie to have any lasting impression with car enthusiasts, it needs to deliver on the action scenes. That needs a director with a vision and decent budget. Steve McQueen's Le Mans has no plot to speak of, it's now considered a classic.
If you boil down any movie plot you can make it sound as tedious as you wish. We'd have no idea if you're talking about an Oscar winner or straight-to-home video trash. It comes down to how it's executed.
For a car movie to have any lasting impression with car enthusiasts, it needs to deliver on the action scenes. That needs a director with a vision and decent budget. Steve McQueen's Le Mans has no plot to speak of, it's now considered a classic.
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A plot doesn't have to complex or convoluted to be good, arguabley many classic films have quite simple plots that are ust executed well. Le Mans has a plot, just a simple one, and it was executed well for its time.
Action scenes are important, but they don't make the movie, the connection to the characters does. If they deliver on action but fail on giving us characters we're bothered about then the writers have failed. A lot of films and TV shows fail to deliver compelling characters these days though.
We don't yet know enough about this film to determine if it'll be worth watching or not, however if I were a beting man I would bet that it's not likely to end up being a classic over time. As it is I have zero interest in this movie, at least until a trailer drops, then I'll decide if I think it looks like it's worth watching or not. But the cast and the details of the plot so far don't grab my interest by themselves.
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They only started writing the screenplay for Le Mans well into production, after the studio wrestled control away from McQueen. The movie wasn't well received by critics, but it's stood the test of time as it was shot like a documentary. Ford vs Ferrari and Days of Thunder show you can also make a racing movie the traditional Hollywood way
For me, the appeal of the Gran Turismo movie will be largely dependent on how heavily they feature real world racing. I'm less interested in the actual GT Academy competition.
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Having it like Tron might be better. I mean, even Disney did it four times. Different, but the same ways. The first Tron with a real person going into the program and coming out. Tron Legacy with two real people in the game/program and one real person & one program coming out into the real world. Then, Wreck it Ralph being in the game, but exiting the game and traversing that gaming universe. Wreck It Ralph Breaking the net, with exiting the game world and traversing the virtual real world internet.
Oh well, we'll see what it's like in due time.
Oh well, we'll see what it's like in due time.
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They could absolutely do it, how good it would look would be the key question.
You could probably fake some tracks quite easily with some CGI scenery and signage but tracks like High Speed Ring and Red Rock Valley would be very difficult to do as you'd be hard pressed to fine a eral location that resembles them enough to fool an audience and therefor you would probably have to CGI the actual circuit which would mean superimposing the racing action onto it and it could look messy. Autumn Ring, Maybe Grand Valley, the nighttime Special Stages, these should be doable if the film went in that direction.
Obviousely, you're not recreating the entire track, just using parts of real tracks that resemble the GT track you are emulating and then flowering it up with CGI. That's all moot though as the film is going a different way.
You could probably fake some tracks quite easily with some CGI scenery and signage but tracks like High Speed Ring and Red Rock Valley would be very difficult to do as you'd be hard pressed to fine a eral location that resembles them enough to fool an audience and therefor you would probably have to CGI the actual circuit which would mean superimposing the racing action onto it and it could look messy. Autumn Ring, Maybe Grand Valley, the nighttime Special Stages, these should be doable if the film went in that direction.
Obviousely, you're not recreating the entire track, just using parts of real tracks that resemble the GT track you are emulating and then flowering it up with CGI. That's all moot though as the film is going a different way.
Yes I'm aware, it had a very simple plot that was executed well, but it had a plot. You also have Rush which came out a few years ago. None of them are complicated movies, they don't have to be, a film about a driver trying to win a big event is enough, you have to make the characters relateable, you do have to get the action right too, but most films live or die on the characters. If you don't care about the lead the action won't matter.
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Well I respect that. I think having Geri in the movie doesnt Auto make it bad. Will have to see how her acting chops are these days besides, the movie isn’t going to be centred around her. She isnt a driver lol.
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A lot depends on time and the buget and what you are actually going for, it can be done, but the tracks in Speed Racer didn't look that realistic, not did the races themselves.
If you want it to look realistic, your best bet is to film real cars racing and then CGI the detail and scenery around the track to make it look like a track from the game.
Racing CGI cars around CGI tracks will more than likely lead to a movie that won't fool the mind into thinking it's real as the chances are it'll look off and the vehicle behaviour will seem off.
Simply compare a fully CGI character fighting with a stunt man fighting where CGI has been placed over him, the difference is often night and day. But a lot depends on how long the VFX artists have to produce the scenes too.
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I kind of doubt it but maybe this will mean GT Academy comes back in the next few years. It may depend on how much the FIA wants to be involved with GT now.
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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:
Gran Turismo Movie Starts Filming at Hungaroring
Sony Pictures has confirmed that the Gran Turismo Movie filming is now underway, with a social media post revealing that the crew is at the Hungaroring in Hungary...
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