Twisted Metal Show Story Details Officially Revealed
The Twisted Metal series has officially found a home, and several new details have emerged. The vehicular combat video games series was hugely popular in the mid-to-late '90s, releasing four titles on the original PlayStation console and Twisted Metal: Black on the PS2 in 2001, before seemingly disappearing from the market. PlayStation released a new game, merely called Twisted Metal, in 2012 alongside news of a potential feature film adaptation directed by Brian Taylor (Crank, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance). Due to the rebooted game's poor performance, interest in the Twisted Metal film quickly waned.
Even after the 2012 game's lackluster reception and the swift dismissal of a blockbuster film adaptation, Sony set out to revive the franchise by announcing a Twisted Metal TV series under the banner of their newest initiative, PlayStation Productions. The show would loosely follow the plot of the video games but eschew the demolition derby-style tournament in favor of a more linear narrative, where the drivers act as obstacles for a courier, played by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Anthony Mackie, who must traverse a post-apocalyptic land to deliver a package. Deadpool writers, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, executive produce alongside Will Arnett, rumored to be voicing the sadistic clown Sweet Tooth.
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A few years later, Peacock announces that they have picked up the Twisted Metal series, headed and written by the previously-announced Cobra Kai writer Michael Jonathan Smith. Sony Pictures Television Studios's Jeff Frost and Jason Clodfelter say, "We are thrilled that our first series with our good friends at Peacock is with our amazing
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