Geri Horner joins the Gran Turismo cast in what seems like a bit of brilliant Formula 1 trolling
Ginger Spice has a very curious connection to a famous racing driver associated with the Gran Turismo games
The cast of Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo movie is coming together (via The Hollywood Reporter), with Djimon Hounsou and Geri Horner (a.k.a. Geri Halliwell, a.k.a. Ginger Spice from the Spice Girls) joining the video game adaptation along with the previously announced David Harbour and Archie Madekwe. Rather than an adaptation of some kind of plot from the Gran Turismo games, the movie is based on a true story about a player who is so good at Gran Turismo racing games that he gets a chance to try being a real professional racing driver, with Madekwe playing the teen racer and Harbour playing a retired driver who teaches him how to translate his skills on a DualShock to the real world. (Actually, if he’s serious, he’s probably playing with a wheel and not a controller, which should make for a relatively easy transition.)
That’s all interesting, but what we’d like to talk about is the fact that hiring Geri Horner is some top-tier freakin’ trolling on behalf of Blomkamp, or Sony, or whoever was in charge of this casting. See, Geri Horner is married to Christian Horner, the current team principal of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team (and one of the main stars of Netflix’s Drive To Survive, because he very much knows the value of controlling the narrative).