Trailer Posted for "The Sim Racer" Movie


A trailer has been shared for The Sim Racer movie, which prominently features a competitive sim racing tournament.

We're learning more about a movie that signifies sim racing hitting the mainstream. A new feature film from writer and director Brock Drury tells a story of a man attempting to pay down a debt by winning money in a sim race, and we now have a trailer for the film.

The trailer was released to The Sim Racer movie's website and Twitter account and shows the character of Luke Wallace, played by Roman Jacob Boylen, on hard times. He hopes to pay off his $9,600 debt by winning $20,000 in an iRacing tournament. The trailer also clearly shows Wallace donning a VR helmet. The official website of The Sim Racer movie offers a synopsis of the movie, and merchandise if you want to support the project.

It wasn't clear from the trailer or the official Twitter account of the movie when, or on which platforms, we'll be able to watch The Sim Racer. However we get to see it, this should be further validation of our hobby, or at least another means of spreading the word of the challenges of virtual racing.

Will you watch this movie? Let us know on Twitter at @RaceDepartment or in the comments section below!
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Mike Smith
I have been obsessed with sim racing and racing games since the 1980's. My first taste of live auto racing was in 1988, and I couldn't get enough ever since. Lead writer for RaceDepartment, and owner of SimRacing604 and its YouTube channel. Favourite sims include Assetto Corsa Competizione, Assetto Corsa, rFactor 2, Automobilista 2, DiRT Rally 2 - On Twitter as @simracing604

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Before this if i were to hear a simracing movie was coming out, I would've assumed its a comedy.

Like keyboard user works his way up the pro esports scene.
 
Yusuf Ashari
Instead of this, what about a movie that talks about a former illegal street racer who become a pro racer (akin to DK Tsuchiya for example)? I mean if we're talking about making a movie about sim-racers or virtual racers who turned pro-drivers , better make it a documentary movie instead of netflix drama movie stuff.
 
Yusuf Ashari
Bram Hengeveld said:
Ferris Bueller's Day Online
Le Mans Virtual (with Steve DramaQueen)
Lord of the Sims: The Return of the King
The Good, The Bad and The Alien :alien:
One Flew over the Cockpits Nest
The Silence of the Champs
Racing Private Ryan
The Simtouchables
The Dark Knight Races
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David Mann said:
Escaping the Shadow Realm
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randomcallsign said:
Netcode apocalypse now
Stop or mom will report
Cloudy with a change of a meatball
Ford vs ferrari dlc
The six million dollar simrig man
Man of 8020 extruded aluminum
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let me add some more:

Initial S
The Wolf of Wallriders
Trialback Mountain
i, Simracer
Simrig Boogie
Assetto Kousoku Trial
Bad Simracers For Life
Speed Art Online
Ready Racer One
Sim Fiction
Rush - Virtual Edition
Basement Midnight
Brokeneye
Assetto Royale
Dr. No-Brake
Grand Valley of The Wallriders [pun from Valley of The Dolls, 1966 film]
Straight Outta Basements
Menace II Motorsports Society
Code Gas-pedal: The Fake Lelouch of The Speed Rebellion
Red-Eye 9000
Grand Pricks
iRacing-Driven
On Any Given Spare-time
The Melancholy of Jimmy Broadbent
To Live and Die in AC
iRacing Nights: The Ballad of an iRacer
Neon Genesis rFactorion
 
Dzul
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I don't know man.

Looks pretty much like a "lets-cash-on-the-hype" project to me . . . :rolleyes:
And is the film meant to sell the T-shirts or the other way around? :confused:

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Emery said:
I suspect selling the bike and VR rig won't work because he bought them on credit. This movie is going to define toxic masculinity, much like the cyclical ludicrous arguing about sim games. Relying on iRacing practice footage to pad the film out tells you how bad the movie will be.

Yeah, this has "Avoid" written all over it. I really don't want to meet the online players that are attracted to this movie.
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Indirectly it also promoted consumerism, unecessary and excessive consumerism since you sold everything to fund your hobby just to pay the debt. If he had the motorbike, then why didn't he just hustle for money or rob banks and use the cash to make his bike faster, then race against street racing bikers instead? A better and manlier plot indeed.
 
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RinusDirtRally said:
Sigh.. This are signs simracing is becoming too mainstream now. Everyone wanna be a simracer these days..
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Even myself wants to go sim/virtual racing honestly, but not because of these things.

In my opinion, sim racing and illegal street racing were almost the same thing considering the amount of cash spent on rigs and setups can match or exceed ones spent on performance upgrades for street racing car builds. And then there's the cultures, cliques and forums surrounding both realms. But, sim racing gets more mainstream leverage since it was deemed safer and "not doing any harm to the outside community" (which I think it was a rather nonsense thanks to people like Jason Jacoby who conned and harmed anyone for his sim-racing benefits), whilst street racing was mostly underground because it was the opposite, being harmful and dangerous (not all street racers are like that btw, some clubs/"cliques" tries their best to even put pedestrian safety ahead of their own while street racing). More "mainstream leverage", more "basic" people liking it, and less authentic it will be.
 
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Whoa…that is cringeworthy. :geek:
I mean…I love simracing but why should I watch someone simracing in a movie?! I’d also never watch pro gamers competing in FIFA but that’s just me and probably I’m too old. :D
 
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Yusuf Ashari said:
why didn't he just hustle for money or rob banks and use the cash to make his bike faster, then race against street racing bikers instead? A better and manlier plot indeed.
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That's the rub.

How can you create drama around sim racing or about any video game so that an audience watching a movie actually cares if the guy wins.

I agree the debt concept as a driving force is COMPLETELY lame. It falls apart on many levels as we've seen in the comments so far. The guy ends up appearing stupid for not approaching his debt management in a better way than winning a sim race which is a stupid risk.

Ready Player One had stakes. Because the Oasis was an environment where people escaped from a dystopian reality, people around the world would have their quality of life impacted if "good guys" didn't win the contest. There was at least an evil corporation who wanted to spam the Oasis with advertising and make it more expensive for people to use.

It's very rare to find anything engaging about playing video games unless there is a personal story involved that is interesting. This movie has failure written all over it.


Can any of you think of a believable reason why an audience would give a flying crap if the character of a movie wins an online sim race?
 
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Badwheels
Ok, this must be a project by the Yanks. NASCAR to represent sim racing ??? Driving in Circles ??? Do you really need VR for that ? Someone save us!!!!
 
Tr0nic
Sounds cringy, must agree, but let's see when it's released... at least he is driving in VR. Maybe this will be released as a VR movie too? :D
 
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Copef1 said:
I think it could be good, but they cast it wrong, and are coming at it from the wrong angle. It needs to be a comedy. Imagine how much funnier it would be with Will Ferrell as the main character, complete with stupid expression on his face, saying to his wife, "I found out I owe $9600 on the house, so I entered a sim race." For the rival they should have cast Clint Eastwood. Imagine Clint all squinty eyed, and mean mugged, saying "I'll see you on race day, punk!!!!" Or "I'm a hell of a lot faster than you'll ever live to be". That sounds more like something I would watch on Netflix. :D
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even better cast Sasha Baron Cohen as his rival, make him sim racing superstar who braggs about how good driver he is and famous youtuber, make scene as hes invited to drive real car and crash it xD
 

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