Twisted Metal TV Series Coming To Peacock In July
From the wildly successful (The Last Of Us) to the critical bombs (Uncharted), Sony’s planning to make Hollywood adaptions of ALL its video games — even the ones it hasn’t done anything with in way too long. You won’t be getting a new Twisted Metal video game anytime soon, but there WILL be a live-action TV series. You’ll just have to take that, or break out the old PS1, whichever.
Car combat games aren’t known for their deep narratives, but there’s a sincere attempt to weave one out of the premise. A man who simply goes by “John Doe” has been given a mission: deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He doesn’t get far in his journey before he runs into an axe-wielding thief who calls herself Quiet (yet probably isn’t quiet at all) and the mismatched pair has to face down plenty of weaponized cars, including the iconic ice cream truck driven by the series’ mascot, Sweet Tooth the Clown.
Twisted Metal stars Anthony Mackie (Falcon and the Winter Soldier) as John Doe, Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto) as Quiet, Thomas Haden Church (Divorce) as Agent Stone, and TWO actors filling out Sweet Tooth: Will Arnett as the voice, pro wrestler Joe Seanoa as the body. Guest stars include Neve Campbell (The Lincoln Lawyer), Richard Cabral (Mayans MC), Mike Mitchell (Netflix’s Love), Tahj Vaughans (P-Valley) and Lou Beatty Jr. (A Million Little Things).
“This is a bonkers show about insiders and outsiders, and how our own special apocalypse has divided and isolated us more than ever,” says showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith. “But there’s hope. You can find your people and your community. You may just have to get past a terrifying clown driving a well-armed ice cream truck to find them…. Buckle up.”
Peacock’s Twisted Metal will premiere July 27. Here’s a short tease.
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