Gran Turismo Movie Thread

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This is the discussion thread for an article on GTPlanet:

Gran Turismo Launches New Ad Campaign For the NBA Finals​

Topping the list of “things I never thought I’d write”, Sony Pictures has partnered with the NBA to promote the upcoming Gran Turismo feature film in the United States...
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Weird partnership for sure, but Not too surprising. Gran Turismo is pretty iconic.
 
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So, surely the movie will be promoted during Le Mans and Pikes Peak coverage…. and I don’t mean with car banner advertising.
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I think their goal with this ad campaign is to expose Gran Turismo to a much larger more diverse audience, who otherwise wouldn't know much about it, or that it even exists in the first place (could you imagine?!?🙄). We'll call them the "normies". Now some normies co-mingle with us hardcore racing fanatics while we watch TV and maybe they will even ask us questions about this "Gran Turismo" I mean.. it looks so elegant and inviting. Then by default we will hype the poop out of the game , what the movie is based on and how much we devoted the better part of our lives to shaving off 1000ths of a second for a virtual gold trophy. Then they will see that this Gran Turismo thing must be some serious business. Maybe even wonder if they made some wring choices in life, but above all they might see a movie about something they had no prior knowlege of hours ago.

On the flip side, advertising at a motorsport event sounds logical but it blends in and gets washed out in a sea of many more stickers associated with racing with words and colours to over stimulate your brain. My brain expects those cars to have a Gran Turismo windshield banner or an overpass to have a banner or signage, and I don't notice it. The people at these events aren't usually normies, and if they are they were likely dragged there by someone else, so theres like a 99% chance they will also be dragged to the Gran Turismo movie.

I dont work in advertising or anything but there is a lot of power in exposure to millions of minds regardless if they agree or not. It's like on Twiiter how some people don't see the real danger of someone being able to get there viewpoints across to millions of people and gain traction globally rather effortlessly. Leaders of entire countries don't have access to these many minds and literally kill for it. It brings me back to those old emails about erection pills. Apparently a very small percentage of people actually fell for the scam, but so many millions of emails were sent out that small percentage amounted to a lot of money.

I still think it's weird, but it's Sony advertising so hey at least its not a dead baby driving a black crib or some other weird baby thing. 😉
 
"You can bend like that?" :lol:

Reminds me of when I watched Shag trying squeeze all of himself into a Cup car and Dale Jr said something along the lines of "Thats alot of man"

Kinda also made me remember trying to squeeze into a Viper SRT-10 at the Texas State Fair once. Not exactly towering myself, but I swear it felt like I had to bend in ways I wasn't even aware I could :lol:
 
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meganinja
LeMans already has parternship with Xbox, certainly they will promote the new Forza Motorsport instead
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Well, I know one thing from watching the race on Stan.Sport ad-free coverage, neither were promoted.
 
Jandreau’s response is the most effusive, remarking that it’s “one of, it not the, greatest video game movie ever”,....
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Joking aside, these initial impressions are at least a little encouraging, though I can't help but still hold onto a fair amount of skepticism, as I do with pretty much every movie based on a video game. Not surprised to hear that David Harbour steals the show, as he's pretty great in general (and was hilarious in Black Widow and Violent Night).
 
As an avid DeLaSoul listener « Don’t believe the hype » if the film delivers it will be nice for sure but there was so much abuse in promoting garbage theatrical release that I can only be skeptical on my part.
But hey if the film was total garbage those people may have not risked it ?
Well no, it’s 2023 they don’t care if it is a tweet
 
Isn't it based on real world stuff like GT Academy and losely on Janns story? Clearly not a video game adaptation or even based on a video game like all those video game movies from Mortal Kombat, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Farcry to Uncharted, etc. etc.
 
toastet
Isn't it based on real world stuff like GT Academy and losely on Janns story?
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Yes, as noted in all of the articles including the most recent one.
toastet
Clearly not a video game adaptation or even based on a video game like all those video game movies from Mortal Kombat, Hitman, Tomb Raider, Farcry to Uncharted, etc. etc.
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Where are you drawing the line here? It looks like you're only allowing "movie which plays out the game's plot almost 1:1" as a video game adaptation - and that's a very, very small subset of the genre.

"Need for Speed" isn't based on any aspect of any of the Need for Speed games. "Assassin's Creed" is an original story featuring none of the game's characters, and only a loose reference to Abstergo/Templars. "Sonic the Hedgehog" is an original story featuring two of the game's original characters but none of the game plot. "Detective Pikachu" features a significant number of Pokemon characters but no part of the story of any Pokemon game.

All are video game adaptations.
 
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