After decades of mediocre results, video game adaptations are finally the hottest thing in entertainment, especially after those . Streamer Peacock joins the video game adaptation wars with a live action comedy based on the PS1-era vehicular warfare simulator Twisted Metal and it just dropped the first trailer.
For the uninitiated (anyone under 30), Twisted Metal is a very popular franchise that sort of riffs on Battle Mode from the Mario Kart series, with a heavy emphasis on comical violence and absolute destruction. Think about it Rocket League there are guns. The show seems to ditch the arena-based nature of the games with a trip to a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
The series stars newly appointed Captain America Anthony Mackie and Brooklyn 99 strange Stephanie Beatriz. You can tell a lot from the apocalypse-soaked trailer, but the show’s description describes Mackie as a “motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life” and Beatriz as a “badss axe-wielding car thief.” Nor will it be Twisted Metal absent is the iconic killer clown Sweet Tooth, described here as a “deranged clown who drives an all very familiar ice cream truck.”
The franchise arguably reached its peak in 1996 with Twisted Metal 2, and there hasn’t been a new release in over a decade, so who is this show really for? Who knows! But it has evil clowns and explosive car chases, so who cares? The first season starts on July 27 and consists of ten episodes.
This is just one step in Sony’s plans to bring its big gaming franchises to other media, which so far include and the mega-popular on HBO. Get ready for an onslaught of PlayStation adaptations in the near future, including Horizon Zero Dawn, Gran Turismo and God of War
