Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) pops in a road mix CD, loads a shotgun, and announces, “Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines,” in the first teaser from Peacock’s Twisted Metal series. The one-minute video shows Mackie on the road and ends with a creepy clown in a rundown Las Vegas.
Peacock dropped the trailer along with a poster, and announced a July 27, 2023 premiere date.
Joining Anthony Mackie in the action comedy based on the Playstation game are Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, Will Arnett, and Joe Seanoa. Neve Campbell, Richard Cabral, Mike Mitchell, Tahj Vaughans, and Lou Beatty Jr. guest star in the 10-episode first season.
Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai) writes, executive produces, and guides the series as showrunner. Anthony Mackie, Rhett Reese, Paul 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, also executive produce.
Twisted Metal‘s a Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Universal Television production.
The Plot, Courtesy of Peacock:
Twisted Metal, a half-hour live-action TV series based on the classic PlayStation game series, is a high-octane action comedy based on an original take by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick and written by Michael Jonathan Smith, 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 badass axe-wielding 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.
