RED Writers Revving Up GRAN TURISMO Movie at Sony

Looks like a Gran Turismo movie is inching closer to the starting line.

After Watchmen writer Alex Tse took a pass at the screenplay, THR reports that Jon and Erich Hoeber, the brothers behind the screenplays for Red and Red 2, have come on board to rewrite the Sony Pictures adaptation of the popular racing game. No story details have been confirmed, but THR claims the story "is said to play with the conceit of a gamer-turned-racer." So it's another movie in which someone's video game skills translate into real-world skills? I wish Hollywood would go ahead and move on from that trend, because it's getting sort of tiresome already.

TRON Legacy director Joseph Kosinski has been hired to direct, and he'll work with the Hoeber brothers to make sure it meets his expectations. Kosinski hasn't exactly had the greatest scripts to work with thus far in his directing career, but a video game adaptation of a pure racing game gives him a blank slate, so maybe this will end up being a good film. At the very least, it should be better than Need For Speed.