Anthony Mackie’s ‘Twisted Metal’ Adaptation Set at Peacock

Meredith Jacobs February 28, 2022, 2:19 pm

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The live-action adaptation of global video game phenomenon Twisted Metal has landed a home.

The series, starring and executive produced by Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), is set for Peacock. Mackie’s John Doe is described as “a smart-ass milkman who talks as fast as he drives. As his name implies, he doesn’t have any memory of his past, and he gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to find community like he wants — as long as “he can survive an onslaught of savage vehicular combat.”

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The action-comedy is based on the PlayStation game and an original take by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It follows “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,” the logline reads. “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 serves as showrunner, executive producer, and writer. Joining Smith and Mackie as executive producers are Reese and Wernick, Will Arnett and Marc Forman (Electric Avenue), Jason Spire (Inspire Entertainment), Peter Principato (Artists First), Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan from PlayStation Productions, and Hermen Hulst, Head of PlayStation Studios. The series is produced by Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

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“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,” said Jeff Frost, President, Sony Pictures Television Studios and Jason Clodfelter, co-President, Sony Pictures Television Studios, in a statement. “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.”