Watch the First Sneak Peek Trailer for the Gran Turismo Movie

The Gran Turismo film simply obtained a sneak peek trailer. Throughout Sony’s CES 2023 presentation, held early Thursday, director Neill Blomkamp got here on stage to introduce the big-screen adaptation of the revered PlayStation racing title. The brief teaser reveals off glossy automobiles and digicam angles ripped straight from the video games, alongside the primary search for David Harbour’s character, Jack Salter, a retired racecar driver, who acts as a mentor for the longer term era. Within the temporary trailer, the Stranger Issues actor could be seen supervising Gran Turismo gamers — the sport getting used as a driving simulator.

As previously revealed, PlayStation’s upcoming theatrical enterprise is predicated on the real-life story of Jann Mardenborough, the British racecar driver who kickstarted his profession by taking part within the GT Academy coaching programme. The Gran Turismo sneak peek confirms that Archie Madekwe (Midsommar), will certainly, bear the identical identify, coaching below Salter to hitch the large leagues as an expert racecar driver. “This film is made for the cinema,” Orlando Bloom says within the promo, while sporting a gray Nissan jacket, indicating his character Danny Moore, is a part of Mardenborough’s crew.

On the occasion, director Blomkamp talked about utilizing the Sony Venice 2 digicam’s removable sensors to emulate digicam angles from the sport, noting it was notably useful for getting photographs from inside the cockpit. He promised three important digicam angles within the Gran Turismo movie, together with the grill angle, a POV from inside the automobile, and a third-person angle from behind the automobile, the place the digicam is mounted onto an arm. The seven-week filming of the Gran Turismo film wrapped late final month, with stunt driver Mauro Calo claiming to have damaged “new grounds on how one can movie race automobiles truly racing.”

The Gran Turismo franshise is amongst a number of different first-party PlayStation video games headed for a live-action adaptation. A Days Gone movie and a God of War series for Amazon Prime Video are within the works, whereas the upcoming HBO’s The Last of Us series, will premiere on January 16 on Disney+ Hotstar in India. The Gran Turismo movie additionally stars Darren Barnet (Love Arduous), Djimon Hounsou (Shazam!), Spice Women member Geri Halliwell-Horner, Daniel Puig, Josha Stradowski, and Thomas Kretschman (Westworld).

Moreover, on the venue, Sony confirmed that Gran Turismo 7, the latest instalment within the racing simulation franchise, is getting assist for PS VR2, at launch on February 22. Those that already personal the title on a PS4 or PS5 will achieve entry to this new model as a free improve.

The Gran Turismo film is slated to hit theatres on August 11.