Michael Bay and Sydney Sweeney are adapting the Sega driving sim Out Run

On the heels of A Minecraft Movie and, perhaps, more importantly, Gran Turismo, Universal is putting Michael Bay and Sydney Sweeney behind the wheel of OutRun, an adaptation of Sega’s 3D driving simulator. For those uninitiated with OutRun—and we have no idea why they would be, considering the last entry in the series, the now-defunct OutRun Online Arcade, only came out in 2009—the game is a race against time, not other drivers. However, as for the original 1986 game, players drive their lovingly recreated Ferrari Testarossa across various courses, including Coconut Beach, the Alps, Death Valley, and the Autobahn, hoping to cross the finish line before time’s up. Though not as relevant to today’s gamers, what with their streaming and dabbing, the game was an incredibly popular and inventive one for its time. Streamers could probably get minutes of content out of it. Hence, Michael Bay isn’t a terrible pick to shoot a real-life, oversaturated Coconut Beach, with Sweeney doing her best to avoid pedestrians in a cut-to-ribbons race sequence. The game is plotless, but if it took 28 writers to get A Minecraft Movie together, surely Bay can get this done with only 25 or 26 writers—27 tops.