It was fun just to spitball ideas and bounce ideas. And those guys, just the two of them, when I heard they were on board… don’t usually get an opportunity to work with writers like that. We did many calls together and many reads and many notes and spent a bunch of time together. took artistic liberty with that and went as far as we could.ĭid you work extensively with executive producers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (of Deadpool fame)? People were allowed to be goofy and funny and make fun of themselves in the Nineties. I feel like the Nineties was the pinnacle of our generation’s music kind of like how Motown was the pinnacle of our parents’ generation’s music. If you look at R&B, you look at hip-hop, if you look at rock, even punk. It was fun man! You know, the Nineties was an amazing decade.

How did that work into the show from the get-go? With Cobra Kai, MJ has worked a lot with nostalgia, which plays heavily into Twisted Metal – specifically Nineties nostalgia.

And once he told me what episodes he had done, I was like, “Oh, wow, is really fun TV.” I read the pilot, I was a big fan of MJ, who was the showrunner, also did Cobra Kai, because I love that show. It kind of came up luckily because the original group that put it together me on board. I was looking for something different I was looking for something in a comedy vein. How did you get mixed up with Twisted Metal? ‘Minecraft’ doesn’t have serial killer clowns. Rolling Stone recently sat down for an exclusive interview with star Anthony Mackie to discuss facing down a killer clown, the essential makeup of a Nineties mixtape, and why it’s time for kids to play other games outside of “all this Minecraft shit.” Billed as a half-hour action-comedy with bite, it’s looking to set itself apart from the crowd of video game adaptations made up of blockbuster children’s films and, somehow, prestige dramas. It’s also got an Avenger as its lead.Īnthony Mackie, formerly The Falcon, but now donning the stars and stripes in next year’s Captain America: Brave New World, both executive produces and stars in this adaptation of Twisted Metal, which begins streaming July 27 on Peacock.

In some ways, it’s tough to see why this specific property would be next up on the ever-growing adaptation slate for the newly-formed PlayStation Productions, but it makes sense given that its creative team consists of Michael Jonathan Smith ( Cobra Kai) and the writing duo of Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick ( Deadpool, Zombieland).

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