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Vehicular Combat Game ‘Twisted Metal’ Being Turned Into A TV Series?
Ah, Twisted Metal. Probably my favorite vehicular combat game (with Carmageddon a close second). Now I know Mario Kart fans will scoff at that, but where else can you have a game where you play as a murderous clown with flames for hair, or a man strapped to giant wheels, or the Grim Reaper himself?
Anyways, we last saw the series back in 2012 with the Twisted Metal reboot for the PlayStation 3. But now (and grab your salt), according to a rumour from ResetEra, during a overnight investor meeting at Sony, during the Q&A portion, it was revealed that the recently formed PlayStation Productions is working on a Twisted Metal TV series!
Apparently revealed by Sony Pictures’ Chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra on-stage, the project only recently began production. The other question is just how you go about creating a TV series from a franchise like Twisted Metal? Do you go full Death Race 2000? Or do you pull something totally out of left field, just the franchise seemed to do (and was good at it) back in its heyday?
Or, do you give series’ creator David Jaffe another stab at it, and give us a new entry in the series?
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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