Twisted Metal TV show will capture the “balls-out fun and craziness” of the games

Lately, it feels like so many games are getting TV and movie adaptations. We have all sorts to look forward to, including HBO’s The Last of Us series and even a Gran Turismo movie.

One adaptation that’s been in the works for a while is the Twisted Metal series. The show (which is being created by Deadpool and Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick) finished filming back in August, and although it still doesn’t have a release window, it’s sounding very promising so far.

Speaking of The Last of Us, check out the trailer for the show below.

Senior producer at PlayStation Studios, Carter Swan, recently told IGN a whole load of exciting details about the show’s first season: “You gotta have the cars, you’ve gotta have the post-apocalyptic setting,” Swan said. “There's a lot of characters that we thought were great. Obviously, Sweet Tooth has been announced and I think will be a very iconic character in the show. He’s being voiced by Will Arnett, played by the wrestler Samoa Joe, who did an unbelievable job. When you think of that game, the first thing that kind of pops into my head is the ice cream truck, that’s the piece that’s been marketed all these years.”

What’s more, as you’d hope, much of the show’s cast (including its creators) are big fans of the games, which should hopefully help capture what fans love most about the series: “The creators of the show, Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, Rhett is a huge, massive fan of the game,” Swan said. “So, really trying to take those elements from like those things that they do, and that time, and that style. They're able to kind of take these violent, ridiculous things and make them fun. Zombieland’s a good barometer if you look at what happens in that movie as to what we could do. Their whole thing is you can have fun in the most apocalypse.

“Michael Jonathan Smith's our showrunner, who's one of the big writers on Cobra Kai, and he was a massive fan of the game and wanted to make it fun, even when it's dark," Swan continued. "But, it does have moments of stakes where bad things happen, and you do feel emotional about it… but the game is just such balls-out fun and craziness, so we’re trying as best we can to capture all that.”

We'll just have to hang tight until the show releases - it sounds like it's going to be good.