Gran Turismo Movie: a Trailer and a Date


As some of you may be aware already, a Gran Turismo movie revolving around the now abandoned GT Academy program has been in the making for quite a bit. Well, a trailer has been released today, together with a date: August 11.

The scenario revolves around an apparently extremely romanced version of Jann Mardenborough's story, winner of the second ever edition of the contest, and now established pro racing driver. It will show Jann's life from childhood to being a professional race driver. The movie seems set in current years, which, combined with the fact that characters interpreted by Orlando Bloom and David Harbour don't sport the names of people involved in the program back then, makes the use of Jann's name instead of creating a fictional character a bit weird.

This is supported by the trailer showing footage of the current game, GT7, which has never been used for a GT Academy competition. The game footage itself is taken directly from Gran Turismo 7 trailers, at least from what we can see right now. Outside of gaming and racing, the movie trailer shows we can expect family drama and a love story.

Underwhelming reception​

Overall, reception by the GT community on social is underwhelming, with many expecting a dud and criticising it for the number of clichés already featured in the available footage. The fact that the movie's logo is using an obviously incorrect font compared to the game's logo is also perceived as a lack of implication from Polyphony Digital and a low effort from the production team to get to know the subject.

With a bit more than 3 months before it airs in cinemas, we are curious to know how many of you are planning to go watch it, and what you expect from it.
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Global motorsports enjoyer, long time simracer, Gran Turismo veteran, I've been driving alongside top drivers since the dawn of online pro leagues on Gran Turismo, and qualified for the only cancelled FIA GTC World Tour. I've left aside competitive driving in 2020 to dedicate myself to IGTL, a simracing organisation hosting high quality events for pro racers and customers, to create with friends the kind of events we wished we could have had. We strive to provide the best events for drivers and the best content for viewers, and want to help the simracing scene grow and shine further in the global esports scene.

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VirtuaIceMan
Hungaroring standing in for Le Mans. Did I see some Dubai there too? Not sure about the flipping sportscar scene, I think they're riffing off of this one from Le Mans
but if you watch the trailer in slow mo, the Ferrari(?) crashes so much like a block of stone, hope they tweak the physics on that!

To be fair, showing a flipping car when Jann eventually had that flip that killed a spectator at Nurburgring is a bit questionable.
 
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Pete Conway
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Nah, not really my thing, I just skipped through the blurb and didn't bother with the trailer.
 
parzival2022
The most expensive video game ad ever lol. It's way too clear that this was designed to advertise GT7 and Nissan. A movie about a sim racer going to real-life racing could be interesting, but this seems to be designed for kids and overflowed with product placment
 
K
Will it be as awful as "Driven"? The trailer certainly suggests that.

Anyway, it's very hard to make a racing movie. As far as I'm concerned, there are only 2 racing movies that work: "Grand Prix" (the best one and I doubt it can ever be equaled) and "Rush". If you're a motorsports fan, "Le Mans" is great fun , because of the amazing Le Mans cars of that era, but there's no script whatsoever, so for casual viewers, it's a real borefest. One critic knicknamed it "Petit Prix"!
 
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LibranRabbit
Definitely see it! How many racing films of any kind are out at the moment? I couldn’t care less if it’s Cliché City, racing… is racing!
 
azaralamouri
1- A black and white mix (so to say for lack of better words, i.e. a victim vs. a dark-hearted villain).
Check!

2- Explicit sexy shots of the white-hearted girlfriend with her hero, of course to "love-and-support" him.
Check!

3- Gangsta rap (or rap of any sort like this).
Check!

4- The "victim" turns out to be the most talented, most healthy and most successful in reality. And screw everyone else in our globe.
Check!

It's going to be a successful movie. Repeating the same thing means this's what everyone wants nowadays.

The same story is EVERYWHERE,

every movie,

every music video,

every ad poster in the street,

every video recommendation in your feed...
 
THK84
azaralamouri said:
1- A black and white mix (so to say for lack of better words, i.e. a victim vs. a dark-hearted villain).
Check!

2- Explicit sexy shots of the white-hearted girlfriend with her hero, of course to "love-and-support" him.
Check!

3- Gangsta rap (or rap of any sort like this).
Check!

4- The "victim" turns out to be the most talented, most healthy and most successful in reality. And screw everyone else in our globe.
Check!

It's going to be a successful movie. Repeating the same thing means this's what everyone wants nowadays.

The same story is EVERYWHERE,

every movie,

every music video,

every ad poster in the street,

every video recommendation in your feed...
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Critical Drinker approves

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Aki Korhonen
nice to see what vacuum they use in game. then we know were the car sounds are from. im thinkin maybe its panasonic jet-flo MC-1040
 

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Gevatter said:
That's exactly what a trailer is there for ;)

Not sim racing or even racing cliches, movie cliches.
  • The son/daughter who wants to live his dream but the parents are against it
  • Being the underdog = coming from an unlikely background (Playing GT in this case)
  • Getting mocked for the background, and not taken for full by the seasoned trainer figure
  • The protagonist still making the team, but just barely
  • The (probably) wealthy and arrogant antagonist
  • The elderly mentor who for no reason believes in the protagonist (and is correct)
  • The protagonist achieving his goals againt all odds in the end

What's missing in the trailer but maybe still in the movie:
  • The love triangle and/or the protagonist coveting the antagonists girlfriend (and getting with her); maybe a split-up in the 2nd act
  • The split second win in the finale of the 3rd act
  • The crash/spin/setback that lets it look like all is lost + the miraculous recovery in the deciding race
  • The nearly fatal accident / accident of the protagonist's best friend
Basically a mix of Days of Thunder + Cars + Slumdog Millionaire + (maybe) a sprinkle of Top Gun.
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Bravo!. Almost perfect, it has always been like that, but since the late 90s it has worsened to the point in where movies and TV shows are as unimaginative and predictable as Japanese manga.

Your description maybe only lacked the over the top impossible CGI scenes, the uninspiring actors, the cheap and lame music selection, "the message" and if slightly successful the lame sequel is churned out with a formulaic plot. Cinema and TV shows really went downhill since at least the late 90's, and since the 10's cinema has become garbage to me.

Cinema nowadays is unpalatable. They went so far with their greediness that they only care about churning out movies as fast and cheap as possible, no longer you see a movie with a music that plays with your emotions like a fiddle, no longer a plot catches you for surprise, no longer a movie try something daring taking financial risks if it flops, no longer a movie catches your attention so much that when the movie ends you can't believe that 90 minutes have passed, nor a movie after you leave the theater gives you food for tought for some time.

Also, in the 80's and 90's in general cinema had a optimistic vibe surrounding everything in the movie, movies were written making you feel how cool your life could become, nowadays movies have a depressive underlying vibe. Characters deconstructed, former legendary characters becoming pathetic and lame totally out of character, and the movies overall trying to lecture us instead of entertaining us and making us forget for 90 minutes how overwhelming and difficult this life can be.
 
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Critical Drinker approves

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No sign of (((THE MESSAGE))) tho, but I dread to think how the Drinker will react to Schindler's List, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary later this year, or Romper Stomper Orange Man Bad: The Movie American History X, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary later this year, or any message movie from the before times, like Sophie's choice, Malcolm X, or Brokeback Mountain.
 

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