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‘Twisted Metal’ Peacock TV Adaptation Teased For This Year
After wrapping production back in September, we’ve been waiting to see just when Peacock will reveal the release date for their upcoming television adaptation of Twisted Metal. While Peacock has been mum so far, a recent tweet by PlayStation Studios head Asad Qizilbash implies that we could see the series debut sometime this year.
In a short clip posted to Twitter, Qizilbash posted a video showing elevator doors adorned with Gran Turismo artwork opening to reveal artwork from The Last of Us on a wall. Qizilbash accompanied the video with saying describing PlayStation Productions’ year in an elevator ride. Following that, Qizilbash coyly wrote that we couldn’t see him in the video, but that his head is on fire, followed by clown and fire emojis.
For those unaware, PlayStation Productions is Sony’s arm that deals with adapting the company’s video game franchises into films and television shows, not the actual development of games (though Sony is currently working on a Twisted Metal revival).
Peacock has yet to follow up with a tweet of their own for the release “Twisted Metal”, which will include the likes of Neve Campbell, Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, Samoa Joe (who will be playing Sweet Tooth) and Will Arnett (who is also on as executive producer, and will be voicing Sweet Tooth).
The original take for the live-action series is from the team behind Zombieland and Deadpool, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick.
The premise for the series sees John Doe (played by Mackie), a smart-ass milkman with no memory of his past, joining the Twisted Metal tournament as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make his wish of finding community come true…if he can survive the savage vehicular combat.
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“I’m the Grim Reaper” – Sam Raimi Teams with ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Writers on Gory, Funny Webtoon Adaptation
The Wattpad/Webtoons and Grave Weaver-created series “I’m the Grim Reaper” is nearing its 200th episode, and it’s also getting a new TV series adaptation with talented names behind it. Deadline reports that celebrated filmmaker Sam Raimi is teaming up with 10 Cloverfield Lane scribes Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken on the new series.
The series follows “Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared.”
The story is said to fit perfectly into “Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor.”
Sam Raimi and Zainab Azizi will executive produce the series with Weaver, who’ll also team on the development process. Raimi may be most known for his Spider-Man and Evil Dead movies, but the filmmaker has been busy behind the scenes producing. More recently, Raimi produced this week’s action brawler Boy Kills World and last year’s 65, with Don’t Move on the way.
The “I’m the Grim Reaper” webtoon launched in 2019, delving into the humor and horrors of reaping souls in Hell. That it’s on the cusp of airing its 200th episode means no shortage of story and mythology for Campbell and Stuecken to pull from.
Stay tuned for additional details on this new series as they arrive.
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