Anthony Mackie's TWISTED METAL Series Will Be Directed By Kitao Sakurai
Kitao Sakurai (The Eric Andre Show, Bad Trip) is set to direct multiple episodes of Peacock’s Twisted Metal series and he will also executive produce.
Anthony Mackie is set to star in the show, which comes from Cobra Kai writer Michael Jonathan Smith. Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are also involved with the film’s development. In fact, the series is based on their pitch, which is described as a high-octane action-comedy.
The series will center on a “motor-mouthed outsider John Doe (Mackie) who is 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 named who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck, whom fans of the game will know as Sweet Tooth.”
Mackie John Doe is described as “a smart-ass milkman who talks as fast as he drives. With no memory of his past, John gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make his wish of finding community come true, but only if he can survive an onslaught of savage vehicular combat.”
This series has the potential to be gloriously insane! I really hope that the creative team delivers a show that fans of the franchise are going to love.
Source: Deadline