Let Twisted Metal’s First Trailer Remind You Twisted Metal Existed

Over the previous few years, Sony has made it fairly clear it needs its PlayStation video games to drag double responsibility as TV/film successes. So far, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the current HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. But there’s lots extra variations on the horizon (Zero Dawn), from current blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to…Twisted Metal.

Just earlier than the weekend began, Peacock launched the primary trailer for the present forward of its launch in late July. It doesn’t actually provide you with an concept about what the present shall be about, although: the footage is simply Anthony Mackie in a automotive and driving by means of 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 taking part in an amnesiac milkman named John Doe, who’s tasked with driving a mysterious package deal by means of the post-apocalypse. At some level, he’ll cross paths with Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), and the 2 will do automotive fight as they endeavor to get Doe’s package deal to the end line.

For those that didn’t have a PlayStation console rising up, Twisted Metal was a automotive fight collection that first began on the PlayStation 1 in 1995 from developer SingleTrac. The basic 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 hooked up. The collection was well-liked again within the day and one among PlayStation’s marquis franchises over time because of a number of sequels and spinoffs from different studios after SingleTrac closed down.

But Twisted Metal as a collection has been MIA ever because the PlayStation 3’s 2012 reboot of the identical identify. The identical month the reboot got here out, Sony introduced its plans to show the collection right into a characteristic movie, which by no means got here to fruition. With this present on the horizon, it’s not totally clear what’s occurring on the sport facet of issues; there was a rumor in early 2022 {that a} new installment was within the works from Horizon: Call of the Mountain developer Firesprite, one which the studio apparently took over from Motorstorm creator Lucid Games. Nothing’s come of that, however perhaps Sony shall be extra forthcoming when the present is nearer to the end line.

Also starring Neve Campbell, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe, and Will Arnett, Twisted Metal will premiere July 27 on Peacock.

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