Turbo The Movie

[Bells]

http://www.turbothemovie.com/

Another Indie movie with a $100k budget coming very close or better than a lot of stuff mainstream pops around.

TURBO is a high-adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a misspent youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting video game called “Super Turbo Arena”. When Pharaoh King (Jocko Sims, Crash the Series), the Michael Jordan of cybersports, announces a tournament to determine who will join his pro team, Hugo's sets his eyes on the prize. But Hugo isn't the only gamer who wants fame and glory. If Hugo wants to win he's going to have to beat Shamus (David Lehre, Epic Movie), the all time Turbo champ at the local Pandemonium arcade, and Ruse Kapri, a feisty prep girl that knows how to win. Realizing he can't win on his skill alone, Hugo turns to his brother Tobias, a former kickboxer whose last match left him confined to a wheelchair. Together the two will mend old wounds and see if a washed up street fighter can teach a troubled teen how to become a virtual gladiator!

Originally Posted by Word from the Director

Thank you so much for visiting the official website for TURBO! This short film has been the BFAM team’s labor of love for the last two years and we couldn’t have done it without our network of actors, stunt people, and technicians.

For years I’ve been a hardcore gamer. Fighting games are in my blood. I remember the first time I practiced the sweet science of pugilism with Little Mac in Punch Out. I remember "Hadokening" my friends into submission in many-a-rounds of Street Fighter II, and Killer Instinct’s Ultra combos that lasted seemingly an eternity. Oh, the arguments my brother and I have gotten into over Soul Calibur were vicious!

So, when it came time to develop my thesis film for my MFA at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, I knew I wanted to combine my love of videogames, comics and anime into the most kickass film possible. Around that time, I was taking an exclusive motion capture performance class taught by Oscar winning director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Beowulf). I directed a short martial arts sequence for the course and my mind began to race on how I’d use the technology in a feature film. I began brainstorming a world where videogame players shared the limelight with the top sports stars. A world where teenagers hung out in Blade Runner-esque arcades; where the most skilled gamers would be discovered and rise to cyber-athlete stardom. And so TURBO the feature concept was born! But, I knew as much as I loved mo-cap, I just didn’t have the resources to make a film with it. So, I wrote a short film to be done in live action as a means to pitch the feature which will incorporate both.

As I entered pre-production, I teamed up with my friend Brent Strickland who had recently sold a spec for the Wonder Woman feature script and signed with ICM. For a year we turned my vision into a feature script that we are about to shop to major film studios.

Creating the world of TURBO has been an amazing journey and there’s much more to come. So, stay tuned for info on where to see the short film (we are looking for distributors now!) and check out our blog for updates on how the feature development is going!

FIGHT ON!

[Jagos]

I have to question what it means to be an indie movie when you have such a high budget.

Regarding the movie, I don't know whether to regard this as another videogame movie or actually look forward to this.

[Marc v4.0]

a 4D fighting video game called “Super Turbo Arena”.

Wait, what? I really hope that's a typo, cause if not that totally kills the entire movie for me right there.