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The upcoming live-action adaptation of the PlayStation video game, Twisted Metal, lands its network at Peacock, via Deadline. The new series is set to star Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), and it will be produced by Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions.
The series was in development since September with duo Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) attached as executive producers and Michael Jonathon Smith (Cobra Kai) will be the series’s showrunner.
Based on the video game of the same name, Twisted Metal is a high-octane comedy that follows John Doe (Mackie), an outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a package in a post-apocalyptic world. With a petty car thief by his side, he will face savage raiders driving vehicles of destruction on the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an ice cream truck.
“We are thrilled that our first series with our good friends at Peacock is with our amazing partners at Electric Avenue, Universal Television and colleagues at PlayStation Productions,” Sony Pictures Television President Jeff Frost and co-President Jason Clodfelter told Deadline. “Michael Jonathan Smith and Rhett and Paul have ingeniously brought this high-action comedy to life, and we are so fortunate to have Anthony at the center of the show. We look forward to this incredible team blowing audiences away with this twisted and inventive concept.”
Twisted Metal will be one in a line of video game television adaptations coming soon, with HBO Max’s The Last of Us, Halo at Paramount+, and Fallout at Amazon Prime.
A release date has not been announced for Twisted Metal, but it will stream on Peacock.