Honestly, I think GT might work as an adaptation in that there's so little to adapt that they could do basically anything, and as long as it involves car racing it'll probably fit just fine. That being said, Blomkamp's films tend to have a grungy, somewhat counter-cultural feel to them, often focusing on downtrodden people in impoverished places, and the one thing I do strongly associate with GT is an aesthetic focus on being "clean," or maybe "sterile" is more appropriate. So Blomkamp is still an odd pick for this, but this really is a director-for-hire thing so I assume he's shifting focus away from that stuff.
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