Hopefully the show will get the budget, otherwise fans may wish they had heeded the lesson Twisted Metal games always end on: be careful what you wish for. In 2017, the man who was supposed to have directed it said that it fell apart because Sony didn’t want to spend the amount of money needed to make it feel like, well, Twisted Metal. It’s also worth noting that Sony has tried to make a Twisted Metal movie before, which was announced in 2012. It’s unclear when the show will come out, but it probably won’t be any time soon - it seems like it’s just now cleared to start production. That’s not to say that AllStars should’ve been a Twisted Metal game, just that it might be a bit awkward if the Twisted Metal show and Destruction AllStars were stopped at a red light next to each other. It’s a bit strange that Sony is making a television show about a franchise that hasn’t seen a release in almost a decade - especially since one of the flagship PS5 games is Destruction AllStars, which has the same theme of vehicular violence.
The return to the property comes after a long drought: the first Twisted Metal game came out in 1995, and the most recent one was released in 2012 for the PlayStation 3. It seems like the show will be going for a comedic (but probably not lighthearted) tone, with Sony Pictures’ Glenn Adilman, the company’s executive vice president of comedy development, calling the script “action-packed brilliantly funny.” While the idea for the series seemingly came from Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who wrote the Deadpool movies, the actual writing was done by Cobra Kai’s Michael Jonathan Smith.
If you’ve been bummed that Twisted Metal: Apocalypse never saw the light of day, maybe this TV show will scratch that itch. It’s also rumored to include Needles Kane, the terrifying clown whose face or ice cream truck (named Sweet Tooth) grace the cover of pretty much every game in the series. The show’s plot synopsis reads like a cross between Mad Max and Death Race, with a car thief and vague protagonist having to fight down highways to deliver a package. The show will be going for a comedic (but probably not lighthearted) tone
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