Will Arnett’s unhinged Twisted Metal clown is very real and not at all of the moment
Now is simultaneously the weirdest and yet most logical time for a Twisted Metal TV show. The vehicular combat game, which debuted in 1995, is the most Mountain Dew-guzzling, Mortal Kombat-aping twiiiiissted 1995 thing ever, and likely for that reason, there hasn’t been a new installment in the series since 2012’s PS3 reboot.
Yet here we are, on the precipice of Peacock’s Twisted Metal show, developed by the team behind Deadpool, written by Cobra Kai’s Michael Jonathan Smith, and starring Marvel’s new Captain America, Anthony Mackie. In the show’s first clip, which premiered during the 2023 Summer Game Fest stream, we see exactly what the show is laying down in our first taste of Sweet Tooth, the franchise’s murderous spokesclown, embodied by pro wrestler Joe Seanoa and voiced by Will Arnett, who also produces the series. Wild. This exists! Wild.
According to Twisted Metal game creators David Jaffe and Scott Campbell in the twiiiiissted and incredibly entertaining mini-doc Twisted Metal: The Dark Past(which, as we all know, was included as a bonus feature on 2008’s Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition), the idea for Twisted Metal came to them during classic bumper-to-bumper Los Angeles traffic, when they imagined how twiiiiissted it would be if they could use missiles to blast away the cars to freedom. The rest is ridiculous history, against some high odds: Sony originally wanted to pivot the Twisted Metal concept to a pizza delivery game, and after finally talking the company into pursuing a more twiiiiissted violent concept, Sony Japan had endless notes. According to Campbell, late into development, Japanese executives wondered if the guns on the cars could fire fruits and vegetables. That didn’t go over
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