Over the previous couple of years, Sony has made it fairly clear it needs its PlayStation video games to tug double responsibility as TV/film successes. Up to now, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the current HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. However there’s loads extra diversifications on the horizon (Zero Dawn), from current blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to…Twisted Metal.
Simply earlier than the weekend began, Peacock launched the primary trailer for the present forward of its launch in late July. It doesn’t actually offer you an thought about what the present shall be about, although: the footage is simply Anthony Mackie in a automotive and driving by an obvious battlefield, and there’s additionally an ice cream truck pushed by a man with a clown masks. The present’s premise sees Mackie enjoying an amnesiac milkman named John Doe, who’s tasked with driving a mysterious bundle by the post-apocalypse. Sooner or later, he’ll cross paths with Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), and the 2 will do automotive fight as they endeavor to get Doe’s bundle to the end line.
For individuals who didn’t have a PlayStation console rising up, Twisted Metallic was a automotive fight collection that first began on the PlayStation 1 in 1995 from developer SingleTrac. The overall premise throughout all of the video games is that contestants blow one another as much as amuse a reality-warping man (demigod?) named Calypso, and whoever’s left standing is granted a single want, however with some darkish twist connected. The collection was well-liked again within the day and one among PlayStation’s marquis franchises over time due to a number of sequels and spinoffs from different studios after SingleTrac closed down.
However Twisted Metallic as a collection has been MIA ever because the PlayStation 3’s 2012 reboot of the identical title. The identical month the reboot got here out, Sony introduced its plans to show the collection right into a function movie, which by no means got here to fruition. With this present on the horizon, it’s not completely clear what’s taking place on the sport facet of issues; there was a rumor in early 2022 {that a} new installment was within the works from Horizon: Name of the Mountain developer Firesprite, one which the studio apparently took over from Motorstorm creator Lucid Video games. Nothing’s come of that, however possibly Sony shall be extra forthcoming when the present is nearer to the end line.
Additionally starring Neve Campbell, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe, and Will Arnett, Twisted Metallic will premiere July 27 on Peacock.
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