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Anthony Mackie To Star As John Doe In Playstation Productions Live-Action ‘Twisted Metal’ Series

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After recently being named the next Captain America, Anthony Mackielooks to have found his next juicy role to sink his teeth into. Sources tell Deadline, Mackie is set to star in and executive produce Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions' Twisted Metal, a live-action adaptation of the popular video game. 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.

"We're thrilled to have Anthony Mackie on board. His ability to blend comedy, action and drama is perfect for the Twisted world we're creating," said Asad Qizilbash, Head of PlayStation Productions.
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Anthony Mackie To Star As John Doe In Live-Action ‘Twisted Metal’ Series From Sony TV And PlayStation Productions

Anthony Mackie is set to star in and executive produce Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions’ series Twisted Metal.
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Raigor

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The game is real then lol

Never expected to play a new Twisted Metal in the year 202X
 
ArmGunar

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The plot

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.
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JaseC64

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We knew the show was real but this is a good indication the game project is real too.

I just hope its not like TM2012 and more like TM Black.
 
boontobias

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Sounds like the cancelled TM Apocalypse game which was originally billed as a multimedia starter a decade ago iirc. the script mustve stuck around
 
JaseC64

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Hmm I wonder if the game will then incorporate the ideas of Twisted Metal Harbor.

One giant map with areas for the player to move to freely. I can see a giant wasteland where you need to visit certain areas and survive the matches there to continue along the story. It could work for its single player. (No on foot segments though, just traveling via your car from place to place)

Interesting. I'll keep an eye on that.
 
ciddative

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Premise sounds potentially terrible, Mackie doesn't excite me, hyped for a new PS5 game though
 
NinjaScooter

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the plot sounds more interesting for a show than the tournament thing from the original games. Seems like they really are going to push for a game to coincide with it. I still have no idea what a Twisted Metal/car combat game looks like in 2021 (or 2023 or whenever it comes out)
 
Precious Tritium

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Uzupedro said:
This is how Sony's TV productions works for most part I think, they make the show and then sell to whoever pays more.
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Fury451 said:
I think they attempted their own platform for original programming through PlayStation Network with the show Powers. I don't recall that being a successful venture so that's probably why it's shopped around now, like any other Sony TV production.
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Makes sense, just wasn't sure if these fell under those Netflix / Disney+ deals that Sony made recently.

I'm sure Mackie made a crap ton of money, will be a lot easier to sell the show with him attached.
 

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nikos said:
Not sure how I feel about that. Sure, there was some humor in the games but I wouldn't call them comedy. Hopefully this turns out to be good. I really want to see another game.
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I think it really depends on which games you're talking about, all of them had an undercurrent of camp but it was really Black and the reboot that hard left turned it into more of a relentless grim tone, even if there were some punctuations of black comedy here and there. Black is still probably the most interesting game because of the narratives for each character but it is in many ways almost comical how over-the-top dark each story is.

It's a weird series as far as tone goes in general, it's part of the reason I've never particularly taken to it. I contrast that with vigilante 8, which leaned heavily into its campy tone and aesthetic consistently, possibly too much in the second game depending on your tastes, but felt a lot more cohesive to me.
 

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Z-Beat said:
Honestly probably closer to Death Race with a clown
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Fair enough, it's not that that concept can't work, it would've been interesting to have it be a tournament still to me because you could have it unfold over multiple episodes with each one serving as and elimination round and simultaneously tell a little character vignette each time. I feel like that would be a little more creative than a cat and mouse chase across an apocalyptic world.

Side plug but the death race remake movie was actually pretty dope and was probably Paul WS Anderson's best movie.
 
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Precious Tritium said:
So these Playstation TV shows don't have a specific home but are just getting shopped around to streaming services
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Pretty much. The Boys on Amazon, For All Mankind on AppleTV, Cobra Kai on Netflix currently; Community, Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Hannibal on the networks historically. They never had any major cable channel presence, where most/all(?) of the large networks now have a streaming service - always shopped around their shows, and now movies with the Netflix + Disney+ deal for post-theatrical releases.
 
Z-Beat

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Fury451 said:
Fair enough, it's not that that concept can't work, it would've been interesting to have it be a tournament still to me because you could have it unfold over multiple episodes with each one serving as and elimination round and simultaneously tell a little character vignette each time. I feel like that would be a little more creative than a cat and mouse chase across an apocalyptic world.

Side plug but the death race remake movie was actually pretty dope and was probably Paul WS Anderson's best movie.
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True. iirc the way it's structured in the game is that all the drivers start in LA and then Calypso says "go." Where they end up after it's all said and done is entirely on them.
nikos said:
Not sure how I feel about that. Sure, there was some humor in the games but I wouldn't call them comedy. Hopefully this turns out to be good. I really want to see another game.
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If it's based on Black that probably won't work. I can see it working in any of the other games though because they all have their dark humor, like Calypso getting carried away by souls in 2 only to escape by literally hanging onto the wing of an airplane in mid-air
 
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Give me Twister you cowards! Driving an indy car that could create tornadoes was the coolest shit.
 
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