Neill Blommmmmfktcammp is finally making a video game movie. Sony's Gran Turismo.

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Djimon Hounsou, currently on screen with Black Adam, and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner have joined the cast of Gran Turismo, Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions’ feature adaptation of the best-selling racing video game.

Daniel Puig, one of the stars of CW’s DC series, Naomi, Josha Stradowski (Amazon’s The Wheel of Time) and German actor Thomas Kretschman, who will be seen in the upcoming Indiana Jones movie, have also jumped into the fast lane for movie, which is already shooting in Hungary.

David Harbour and Archie Madekwe are starring in the production, which also counts Orlando Bloom and Darren Barnett on the roll call. Neill Blomkamp, best known for sci-fi movies such as District 9 and Elysium, is directing.

With a script by Jason Hall (American Sniper) and Zach Baylin (King Richard) and based on a true story, the project is described as the ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won him a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional race-car driver. Madekwe is playing the teen while Harbour is a retired driver who teaches him to drive. 

Hounsou and Halliwell-Horner are playing the teen’s parents while Puig his bother. Stradowski is a rival driver with Kretschmann playing his father.

PlayStation Production’s Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan, Doug Belgrad, and Dana Brunetti are producing. Game creator Kazunori Yamauchi and Hall are executive producing.

Sony Pictures will release the film theatrically Aug. 11, 2023.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gran-turismo-movie-casts-djimon-hounsou-spice-girls-geri-halliwell-horner-1235255227/

SO I guess all of those guys who buy steering wheel setups can make something of themselves.

 

.....nah