While Gran Turismo The Movie is still somewhat small on the horizon, Sony has brought it one step closer to realization. The Hollywood Reporter is naming Watchmen Co-Writer Alex Tse as the writer for the upcoming video game adaptation film. The first real sign of the GT movie being in development was confirmed to us back in July after rumors.
The Hollywood Reporter desribes Alex Tse as a big name genre film writer in Hollywood, so his previous work and interest should lend itself well to the world of Gran Turismo. Besides previously working on Watchmen, he is also now working on The Crow, Ninja Scroll and Highlander’s remake.
Collider had an interview with Dan Brunetti, Producer, where he discussed the plot of the film:
“A lot of people are like, ‘How the hell do you make a movie out of a video game that’s basically a driving simulator?’ And actually the story is they did an online competition where they narrowed it down 25,000 people competing online, and then got it narrowed down to 22 people that they took to Silverstone race track basically to see if it was possible to go from virtual to reality. And then they basically put them through a racing boot camp through physical, mental, and technical driving school to train and see who would be the best race car drivers out of that.
The top two they then took and put in the 24 hours at Dubai race, and they are now race car drivers… So the movie that we’re gonna do is kind of really a wish-fulfillment fantasy that this kid plays this video game and ultimately goes from this video game to actually racing the race cars.”
There is still no estimate release date that’s been released, but considering the other projects of those confirmed to be involved, it’s safe to assume the film won’t be ready for theaters until late 2015 at the earliest.
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