Twisted Metal is one of the oldest and most iconic first-party PlayStation franchises – and now it’s officially getting its own television show. There have been murmurs regarding this project for years now, but Variety has revealed that it’s officially moving forward at long last. Sony Pictures TV will be developing the series in collaboration with PlayStation Productions, while Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick of Deadpool and Zombieland fame have signed up to executive produce the “action comedy”.
“Twisted Metal is one of the most beloved franchises from PlayStation,” said Sony bigwig Asad Qizilbash. “We are thrilled to have such a great team working on bringing this iconic game to life for the fans.”
The plot will see a “motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life […] if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland”. He’ll be accompanied by a “trigger-happy” car thief, and along the way the pair will encounter “all kinds of savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction”, including – you guessed it – Sweet Tooth.
Cobra Kai’s Michael Jonathan Smith will pen the script, while Will Arnett will assist Reese and Wernick in an executive producer role. There were rumours that Arnett was also set to voice Sweet Tooth, but according to Variety, that’s not the case.
“We love Twisted Metal in all its twisted insanity,” said Glenn Adilman, the chief of comedy development for Sony Pictures Television. “Michael Jonathan Smith hit it out of the park with an action-packed, brilliantly funny adaptation and we are grateful for the support of Rhett, Paul, Will, and our friends at PlayStation.”
This is the second high-profile adaptation that the newly established PlayStation Productions has put its name to, with HBO’s The Last of Us also getting the go-ahead recently. Is this something you’d be willing to watch? Crash into the comments section below.
[source variety.com]
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Hopefully this paves the way for a new game.
If this follows the smart, risqué Deadpool brand of forth-wall-breaking sense of humour it could be good. Fingers crossed.
@get2sammyb too bad the story is destined to be filled with potholes
Those writers give me very little confidence, unfortunately. I found the last Deadpool to be extremely unfunny and obnoxious.
I hope it's dark comedy like most twisted metal 2 endings, I still remember the winner that want to fly so calypso gave them plane ticket instead rather than the ability to fly
A Twisted Metal show with the Deadpool team sounds perfect given the tone of those games
Dream cast: Vincent D'Onofrio as Sweet Tooth, Karen Gillan as Dollface and Dominic Cooper as Calypso.
@get2sammyb or at least a remake of 2 or black
Deadpool and Zombieland alumni sounds like my idea of hell. I wasn’t sure that the Borderlands movie’s promise of sheer annoyance could be topped but this is absolutely in the running.
The guys that bought us Deadpool & Zombieland are working on this? Okay I'm more interested in this project now with this news, I think these guys are the perfect choice to deliver a good Twisted Metal show..
I’d love to see a remaster of TM1 or 2. Great games. Remind me of my Childhood
@nessisonett I take it you didn't like Deadpool lmao
Honestly after the Deadpool video game bastardized the character to the extent it did the movie felt like the light at the end of the tunnel which is probably why I like it as much as I do
@TheFrenchiestFry Deadpool 1 is up there with my least favourite movies of all time alongside Bridesmaids. Both I actively switched off, which I normally don’t do as I tend to push through and at least see the credits. Hence why I didn’t watch Deadpool 2.
Actors must be lining up for this. Just chomping at the bit.
@nessisonett Deadpool 2 I thought tried a lot harder to dig deeper into the more depressing aspects of the character
I feel like the mainstream only sees him as a joke character given how upbeat and comical he's depicted in stuff like the video game and to a lesser extent the first movie, but DP2 honored the fact that he basically uses humor to deflect about his personal insecurities and that he's actually a broken as hell person on the inside who just tries to make fun out of grim situations while trying to come off as sincere due to his predicament
There's even an entire montage in the film where he conducts numerous suicide attempts which is like one of the core aspects of the character I think a lot of people who don't read the comics aren't necessarily familiar with
@TheFrenchiestFry I don’t even like him in the comics. Rob Liefeld has many many things to answer for.
Well this is a start for a bright future in the franchise with the game releasing later on, right!
Got my eye on this
@nessisonett so you just don't like him? Not everything is for everyone
@theMEGAniggle I dunno, I really don’t like Captain America in the comics but he’s great in the MCU. Different takes on different characters can endear you to them.
This sounds nothing like Twisted Metal, car combat aside. Twisted metal is about a tournament to achieve a wish and this sounds like a a vaguely inspired off-shoot that doesn't need the name of Twisted Metal, or that it's just using it for advertising. This isn't gonna be good. They already started throwing the game to the side - heck, they probably didn't even play any of the games.
@get2sammyb Just remake Twised Metal World Tour no stupid gimmicks and you have a winner. And just bring back the classic drawn endings.
@nessisonett
Like pouches, pockets and basic human dimensions.
I remember enjoying some of the games when I was younger, will definitely check this show out.
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