Peacock's TWISTED METAL Series Casts Five More Actors
Five new cast members have been added to Peacock’s series adaptation of Twisted Metal. Those actors include Joe Seanoa a.k.a Samoa Joe, who is set to play the dual role of Sweet Tooth, a character that will be voiced by Will Arnett.
Sweet Tooth is described as “a hilarious and terrifying hulk of a man, who is as emotional as he is cunning. A lover of chaos, this majestic rage-filled killer dons an ever-smiling clown mask and uses ‘Lost Vegas’ as his own personal kill-ground, all while he drives his infamous doomsday ice cream truck.”
The other new cast members include Mike Mitchell (The Tomorrow War, Love), Tahj Vaughans (P-Valley), Lou Beatty Jr. (A Million Little Things, NCIS), and Richard Cabral (Mayans M.C., American Crime).
Mitchell will portray Stu, “Mike’s best friend, the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern of this world, and together often find themselves to be more followers than fighters.”
Vaughans will portray Mike, “Stu’s best friend, the Rosencrantz & Guildenstern of this world, and together often find themselves to be more followers than fighters.”
Beatty Jr. will portray Tommy, “a grizzled and weathered cartographer who knows the dangers of the Wild Midwest.”
Cabral will play Quiet’s “overprotective brother Loud in the live-action video game adaptation.”
They join the previously cast Anthony Mackie, who plays John Doe, Stephanie Beatriz as Quiet, Thomas Haden Church as Agent Stone, and Neve Campbell.
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, Sweet Tooth.”
Cobra Kai writer Michael Jonathan Smith is developing the series, which is based on an original take by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland). It’s said to be a high-octane action-comedy. Will Arnett is also a producer.
Source: Deadline