10 Upcoming Movies That Are Definitely Going To Bomb

It wouldn't be a typical summer movie season without one or two high-profile duds, and Gran Turismo feels like one of the most likely candidates for 2023.

Though the decades-old franchise is one of Sony's most bankable PlayStation properties, there are no guarantees of achieving similar success with a big-screen adaptation. Need For Speed - another massive racing series - was given the Hollywood treatment in 2014, and barely scraped past $200 million worldwide off the back of some savage critic reviews.

While we don't know Gran Turismo's budget yet, $200 million just doesn't feel like enough for the movie to be deemed a financial success. Video game movies, in general, are hit-and-miss at the box-office, and with Gran Turismo lacking the action-adventure appeal of something like Uncharted, it's tough to imagine it finding a huge audience in a packed summer schedule.

Curiously, the film is going to be helmed by Elysium and Chappie director Neil Blomkamp. It seems like a total creative mismatch on paper, and with the quality of Blomkamp's films steadily declining since the fantastic District 9, there's little reason to expect that Gran Turismo will be a cinematic work of art either.