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 tug double obligation as TV/film successes. To date, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the current HBO adaptation of The Final of Us. However there’s loads extra variations on the horizon (Zero Daybreak), from current blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to…Twisted Metallic.

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 provide you with an thought about what the present will probably be about, although: the footage is simply Anthony Mackie in a automotive and driving by way 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 enjoying an amnesiac milkman named John Doe, who’s tasked with driving a mysterious bundle by way of 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 sequence 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 sequence was well-liked again within the day and certainly one of PlayStation’s marquis franchises through the years because of a number of sequels and spinoffs from different studios after SingleTrac closed down.

However Twisted Metallic as a sequence 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 sequence right into a characteristic movie, which by no means got here to fruition. With this present on the horizon, it’s not fully clear what’s taking place on the sport aspect 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 perhaps Sony will probably 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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