After years spent in impartial gear, idling in growth, Sony’s deliberate movie primarily based on the Gran Turismo sport franchise is lastly, truly getting in control. Neill Blomkamp is on board to direct after getting into talks again in Could, and David Harbour joined the forged a couple of days in the past. Now we all know that Orlando Bloom can be prepared for some racing film motion.

In contrast to different sport variations (together with Uncharted) which drew from the story of the supply materials, Gran Turismo has a script by American Sniper‘s Jason Corridor and King Richard‘s Zach Baylin that’s described as the final word wish-fulfillment story of a teenage Gran Turismo participant whose gaming expertise gained him a sequence of Nissan competitions to change into an precise skilled race-car driver.

See‘s Archie Madekwe is enjoying the teenager, with Harbour on as a veteran, retired driver who teaches him be a wheelman. In keeping with The Hollywood Reporter, Bloom can be a hungry advertising exec who’s promoting the game of motor racing… and simply could imagine in its artwork, too.

Blomkamp can have the cameras and the wheels rolling in Europe this coming week and Sony needs this in cinemas on 11 August subsequent yr.