Gran Turismo Races Into Theaters This Summer
Here is YET ANOTHER Hollywood production based on a Sony video game. We told you they were serious about this. But unlike Twisted Metal from a couple days ago, this one’s based on a series that’s still active…albeit very slow to produce updates. A Gran Turismo movie will open in theaters this August. While the screenwriters really had to rack their brains to come up with a coherent storyline for something like Twisted Metal, they didn’t have to work very hard for Gran Turismo…because they plucked a story from real life. It’s less an adaption of the game (which has no story anyway) and more a dramatization of real events that centered around it. Jann Mardenborough is a professional race car driver who has been in the circuits for the last twelve years. He got into the industry though playing Gran Turismo. No, really. Mardenborough entered a contest back in 2011 called Gran Turismo Academy. It was a tournament where the winner would get the opportunity to compete in the
