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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Matt Y said:
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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Kveilkur said:
I do hope it's woke with a lot of race-related racing. Ideally, with a protagonist of one colour ('It's not our world, son') and an antagonist of another (ideally blond and middle aged), who the former defeats and shames, therefore teaching a wise, moral lesson to in spite of being an ignorant youth.
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to quote from a different forum on this matter.

"To draw them out, use a wrong pronoun, then the loud crying will betray
them."
 
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TRASGU said:
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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The difference being, japanese manga is more popular than ever, specially in the west, while hollywood is basically bankrupt at this point, because unlike manga, or some exceptions, they don't give the paying audience what they want, instead, they take every chance to lecture said audience.
 
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oh no not again XDD
But for serious, for me it looks like a "real story" of Jann Mardenborough who from GT academy went to real motorsport and drove Nissan GT3 and crashed it at nurburgring killing one spectator in 2015. Even in movie the main actor is black just as Jann, also theres scene similar to nurburgring crash at 02:06 car went flying in the air. But in movie it looks they didnt killed spectaror only made main actor as victim cause he catched fire xD
In real world blame for crash went to engineers who set up that nissan that it went flying, later they flattered that hill before turn at nordschleife but the thing is.. if the driver was not from a game but from real world just from begining.. the crash wont happen real drivers have self consciousness and intuition they can sense cars behaving weird if goin at such hill they can sense the car is about to go flying so they let off throttle.. But kid from games think just gliches dont happen in real life and well.. real life glitch happened at nurburgring in 2015 to gamer driver XD he wanted go from game to real motorsport, and he did, he took his talent from game into real thing but also he took glitch with him lol.

P.S. still waiting for movie about pro counter strike player who sitting playing his counter strike and then war happens, enemy soldiers coming to kill his village but he takes his grandma ww2 mosin nagant and defends his village killing professional soldiers as he uses his tactical skills learned from counter strike

P.S.2 is it Hamilton singing at the end of trailer ? xD
 
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OptimusPrime
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OH Yeah baby! I'm gonna watch this in IMAX at least a dozen times. At Least! It's got better cinematography than Grand Prix. Better real world racing than Le Mans. And more sex than RUSH!
 
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Jeremy Chaim said:
Are they going to include the part where Jan's real world racing career ends rather quickly and he has been without a drive for a few years now?

(someone correct me if I'm wrong about that)
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Jann got a 9 year racing career out of the GT Academy. He did a season in Japan's top-level Super Formula and four seasons in GT500, up through 2020. I'd say that's a decent result for winning a video game competition
 
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Unbelievable, there is damage in the film and the budget associated with it is worth at least 30 years of damage to the video game.
 
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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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Have you ever heard of Joseph Campbell & Hero with Thousand Faces? Just about every movie, myth or book follows the same script. Hence the name of his book - the hero with thousand faces. There are exceptions with little variations, but if you use such criteria you shouldn't watch any movies ever bcs they follow that same script over & over again.
The heroes from ancient stories to Jann have the same journey.
 
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ivanalesi said:
Have you ever heard of Joseph Campbell & Hero with Thousand Faces? Just about every movie, myth or book follows the same script. Hence the name of his book - the hero with thousand faces. There are exceptions with little variations, but if you use such criteria you shouldn't watch any movies ever bcs they follow that same script over & over again.
The heroes from ancient stories to Jann have the same journey.
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True, but it's all in the way you tell the story that makes the difference. The problem with the GT trailer is that we've seen all it before told in the exact same way.
 
gamer19
guys, calm down now
this is based on a true story for god's sake
we should all be proud :giggle:
 
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Kingkoenig said:
True, but it's all in the way you tell the story that makes the difference. The problem with the GT trailer is that we've seen all it before told in the exact same way.
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Like where? It's the first movie about sim racing. The story structure is the same as the Bible or some teen love drama, but the characters, locations & obstacles are all different. That's how storytelling works.
In any case, it's made for a wider audience aimed at getting new drivers into GT. It's not aimed at us.
 
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ivanalesi said:
Like where? It's the first movie about sim racing. The story structure is the same as the Bible or some teen love drama, but the characters, locations & obstacles are all different. That's how storytelling works.
In any case, it's made for a wider audience aimed at getting new drivers into GT. It's not aimed at us.
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Based on what I've seen in the trailer, it's like every bad sport movie I've ever seen, except it's sim racing instead of baseball, football, etc.

Two examples:

1) the scene that shows the young drivers training (and one guy puking);
2) the coach (the Stranger Things actor) who says something like: "you want me to turn these guys into racing drivers? It can't be done."

I've seen that movie before, believe me.
 
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OptimusPrime said:
OH Yeah baby! I'm gonna watch this in IMAX at least a dozen times. At Least! It's got better cinematography than Grand Prix. Better real world racing than Le Mans. And more sex than RUSH!
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Hey, at least "Rush" had Olivia Wilde in it!! :inlove::inlove::inlove:
 
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