You would possibly recall that, again in Might, we realized that Neill Blomkamp was the most recent director to leap aboard a Gran Turismo movie adaptation, trying to steer it out of years spent within the growth storage. It is clearly shifting up a gear, as Stranger Issues‘ David Harbour is aboard to star.

The racing sport, created by Kazunori Yamauchi for firm Polyphony in 1997, was hailed as one of the genuine driving simulators in its class for its deal with exact graphics, driving physics and a focus to element of its automobiles, which gamers would construct and race. The collection has offered greater than 85 million copies, with the newest version, Gran Turismo 7, hitting cabinets in March for PS 4 and PS 5.

And now the film model is coming into clearer focus. Although the sport itself is plot mild by design, the script, written by Jason Corridor and Zach Baylin will deal with a based-on-truth, final wish-fulfillment story of a teenage Gran Turismo participant whose gaming abilities gained him a collection of Nissan competitions to turn out to be an precise skilled race automobile driver. Harbour will play a retired driver who teaches the teenager to drive.

This might be racing in the direction of a taking pictures schedule quickly as Sony already has an 11 August launch date on the books.