Gran Turismo

ETA: AUG. 11

Haunted Mansion

ETA: JULY 28

A reboot of a much derided movie based on a Disney theme park ride doesn’t exactly sound like gold. But add in the talent behind this new version, which sees a single mum hire a priest, a tour guide, a psychic and a historian to exorcise her new home, and all bets are off. Dear White People director Justin Simien is at the helm with a packed cast including LaKeith Stanfield, Owen Wilson, Rosario Dawson and Jamie Lee Curtis. Could be scarily good.— RF

Director Rob Marshall on singing underwater, transformations, and firsts.

BY NATALIE ZUTTER

Talk about wish fulfillment. Not just another movie based on a video game, Neill Blomkamp’s latest is actually inspired by the true story of Jann Mardenborough, an avid Gran Turismo player who won a competition when he was just 19 to drive with Nissan in the Dubai 24 Hour. Yep, that’s an actual real-life motor race. Archie Madekwe (Midsommar) plays Jann, who ends up training with David Harbour’s hard-ass retired driver Jack Salter to become a professional race car driver. Rounding out the cast is Orlando Bloom as a marketing exec based on GT Academy founder Darren Cox and Djimon Hounsou and former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell as Jann’s parents. — RF

If You Want To See

a musical adapted from stage to screen and adapted well, Rob Marshall is your dream director. For Chicago, he went high-concept, recontextualizing the Broadway songs as vaudeville numbers from the mind of Roxie Hart. With Into the Woods, every prince, witch, and baker’s wife got a show-stopping number that justified why movie audiences should care about them. Marshall is aware that, while theater is a heightened space in which it’s completely natural for characters to belt out their “I want” songs, onscreen, it’s a tougher sell.

“You have to earn a song, especially in a movie,” he tells Den of Geek. “It has to feel seamless coming from story and character.” For his live-action