Agreed.

Take a game which is an driving simulator, and turn it into an action movie. 

Don't they have another driving IP that they can water down with bad movies?  I guess we'll see Action/Adventure GT games in the future rather than the technology pushing simulators.

Stig beating up aliens with a wrench...

That would be awesome..

As much as like GT as a franchise this pretty much sums ups the franchise as a whole.

Confirmed by Sony.

"Sony confirmed a Gran Turismo movie is indeed in development. When approached about reports, a Sony Computer Entertainment UK spokesperson told Joystiq the Gran Turismo film is "being made," adding the company doesn't have any further comment."

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/25/gran-turismo-movie-confirmed/

Producers have nothing to do with how good the film is. They're money people. When a film says "from the producer of", it means there's nothing better to say about it.

Who's the director? Who's the writer? Is it a generic action film with a few references thrown in like Resident Evil or Hitman?

Anything remotely close to Fast and Furious is automatically bad.

Period.

Oh you've seen the movie already? How was it?

Also, can I borrow your time machine? Need next weeks lottery numbers

Thanks!

First of all...

Sony hasn't won an Academy Award for best picture since 1982 (Gandhi).  They haven't won a best director award since 1987 (The Last Emperor). 

While Sony ended up with the highest market share for 2012, it did so by releasing the most movies.  However, despite that, the highest grossing film they released in 2012 was Skyfall, at #4.  If you combined Sony's top two grossing films from 2012, they still don't best or equal the three top three films that year.  This year, Sony is down all the way to #6, without a single top-ten grossing film.

Expecting a Sony film to be high-quality entertainment is an exception, not the norm. Columbia is typically Sony's quality film studio.  It's kind of like what New Line Cinema was like before Lord of the Rings. 

Note:  Warner Bros. has completely absorbed New Line, so they are no longer a running entity but they used to be known for their low-quality films. 

Finally, No.  I've already won next weeks lottery.  Sorry.

Thanks for reminding me they made Skyfall. I expect this Gran Turismo movie to be absolutely incredible now!

Im sry I just cant see how this will be any good I cant picture a story or even how they will handle the cars since in the game there are tons of really really expensive cars racing against cars that have been buffed up