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NEWS: Deadline: Universal Develops Film of Sega's OutRun Driving Game




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Zoneflare



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 9:30 pm Reply with quote
So expect lots of questionable explosions.
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Meongantuk



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:32 am Reply with quote
Well, the game does have a lot of explosions from all the car crashes. Laughing
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:06 am Reply with quote
Aaaaah.....

'Magical Sound Shower' was my favorite tune track. That game was a blast when it was working correctly. The side to side slide of the seat really added to the effect, as did the rumble when you went off the road. The real question is going to be what story they pour the game into, as it was just pure racing.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 8:09 am Reply with quote
I wonder how many other weird licenses will arise from the coming video game movie goldrush.

Good payday for Sega over a long dormant franchise, either way.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:36 am Reply with quote
I am Surprised The Master of Bayhem wouldn’t direct a Spy Hunter or Road Blasters film instead!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 10:29 am Reply with quote
Even as someone who has been into OutRun since the Sega Master System port of the original arcade game, I'm mostly indifferent to the prospect of a Michael Bay OutRun movie, hopefully it'll be more Cannonball Run than Fast and Furious (specifically the ridiculous movies in the series post Tokyo Drift).

However, if this means that there's any chance we'll get an OutRun 3 to tie in to the movie, or, at the very least, a remaster of OutRun 2/2006 for modern platforms (with Ferrari re-licensed, I wouldn't buy OutRun 2 again if it only had generic sports cars), I fully support this movie endaevor.

(As long as there'd still be the option of buying OutRun 3 on physical media, with offline single-player mode, no always-online DRM, and the entire game on the disk, of course.)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 2:32 pm Reply with quote
Maybe an Outrun Collection
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 5:55 pm Reply with quote
It's one thing to have a good adaptation of a video game series with a world and a developed background. Something like Fallout, for instance.

Another is to have a movie adaptation of a largely plotless video game.

Seriously?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:46 pm Reply with quote
So a race with couples and Ferraris? I guess that could be a good movie.
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Make a Scavenger Hunt film like…It’s A Mad, Mad,Mad, Mad World!
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 9:38 pm Reply with quote
Hellsoldier wrote:
It's one thing to have a good adaptation of a video game series with a world and a developed background. Something like Fallout, for instance.

Another is to have a movie adaptation of a largely plotless video game.

Seriously?


Actually, that's to this potential movie's credit. When it comes to "properly" adapting OutRun all the movie really needs to do is be about a couple driving fast across various locales in their Ferrari, showcasing the beautiful environments, & feature some truly awesome music. If they want to also include elements of OutRun 2 then also include a rival to make it more of a race, as well as a lot of powersliding/drifting.

Beyond that they can add in just about anything else to the movie to give it a proper plot, but as long as they nail the sensation of driving a cool Ferrari across sweet looking places, all to a great soundtrack, then everything else would be secondary.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2025 1:22 am Reply with quote
By next year, it'll be OutRun's 40th Anniversary. To think... this movie might have been better off as a 90's movie. Unfortunately, it'll be a Michael Bay movie...
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