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A live-action, comedy TV series based on the PlayStation "Twisted Metal" games is in development at Sony Pictures TV and PlayStation.

Just a few years after a film based on the beloved vehicular combat game franchise was cancelled, Sony Pictures Television and PlayStation Productions have begun development on a series adaptation of Twisted Metal.

Twisted Metal video game franchise into a TV series. In what sounds like a Mad Max: Fury Road approach to the franchise, here’s how the series is described: The action comedy follows a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck. Often referred to as Sweet Tooth, the...

It's been a big couple of weeks for PlayStation's TV arm. Not only did PlayStation Productions and Sony Pictures TV confirm who will play the leading roles in

Kevin Mayer The ambitious venture, on which Mayer is teaming with former Disney chief operating officer Tom Staggs, is expected to focus on a broad portfolio of companies that could span social media, music, entertainment and ecommerce.  Former Disney and TikTok executive Kevin Mayer is exploring a deal to roll up several independent media and entertainment companies, including Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings and Ben Silverman’s Propagate Content, sources with knowledge of the talks tell The Hollywood Reporter. Blackstone is financing the venture and is expected to invest a minimum of...