The “Twisted Metal” video games are headed to the small screen, with a television series currently in the works from Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions.
The even better news? The original take for the live-action series comes courtesy of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the duo behind Zombieland and the Deadpool movie!
The best news? Deadline reports that Anthony Mackie will star! Via Deadline, “Mackie will star in the lead role of John Doe in the half-hour live-action TV series and insiders say Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions are extremely high on the package and a plan is in the works to take it to buyers soon.” Mackie will also executive produce the series.
“Twisted Metal is a high-octane action comedy, based on an original take by Deadpool scribes Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.”
Michael Jonathan Smith (“Cobra Kai”) is on board to write the series.
The first Twisted Metal game was released in 1995, developed by SingleTrac and published by Sony for the PlayStation. That original game spawned follow-ups and spinoffs, with a movie adaptation at one point in the works from the director of Crank and Ghost Rider. That project never came to be, and a TV adaptation has been in development for the past few years.
