Peacock has announced today that Will Arnett (Arrested Development, BoJack Horseman) will star in the upcoming TV adaptation of Twisted Metal. The series, based on a suite of Playstation video games, will feature Arnett as Sweet Tooth, the series’s iconic killer clown; in addition, Anthony Mackie (Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Stephanie Beatriz (Encanto), and Thomas Haden Church (Spider-Man: No Way Home) will also star.
With its first game released by Sony in 1995, the Twisted Metal video games see players competing in an annual battle-royale style demolition derby against various characters like Sweet Tooth, who Variety describes as “a hilarious and terrifying hulk of a man, who is as emotional as he is cunning.” Players and NPCs alike have the option to arm themselves and their vehicles with any number of weapons, up to and including guns, explosives, and satellite and nuclear-based weaponry, which can be collected in the arena during battle and upgraded for even more firepower. The Twisted Metal game series has seen eight main games released between 1995 and 2012, with two spinoffs being released in 2001 and 2002, respectively.
What we know about Will Arnett and the cast of “Twisted Metal.”
In the upcoming TV adaptation coming to Peacock, Will Arnett is slated to voice Twisted Metal villain Sweet Tooth, a deranged clown who drives an apocalyptic version of an ice cream truck and roams the city of “Lost Vegas” on a killing spree of bloody proportions. Sweet Tooth, along with Agent Stone (Thomas Haden Church), and Raven (Neve Campbell), is intent on stopping John Doe (Anthony Mackie), a “motor-mouthed outsider” who’s been offered a better life, but only if he can deliver a package to the other side of a post-apocalyptic wasteland – and survive. John Doe has an ally in the form of Quiet (Stephanie Beatriz), a car thief fleeing a life of oppression.
The Twisted Metal TV adaptation was initially created by Michael Johnathan Smith (Cobra Kai) and announced in 2019. According to Deadline, Will Arnett and Anthony Mackie will double as executive producers, along with Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan from PlayStation Productions and Marc Forman from Electric Avenue Productions (Address Unknown), which Arnett also heads. Smith will serve as the series showrunner.