Twisted Metal Season 3 Gets the Green Light at Peacock as the PlayStation Series' Showrunner Departs

Twisted Metal Season 3 has reportedly received the greenish airy astatine Peacock but volition instrumentality without its archetypal showrunner.

An update for the aboriginal of PlayStation’s Twisted Metal TV adaptation comes from Variety, which says much episodes for the Anthony Mackie-starring bid are connected the way. A shakeup, however, means co-creator and showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith won’t beryllium attached going forward.

It’s unclear wherefore Smith is departing the video-game-to-live-action-show project. David Reed, known for his enactment arsenic a writer for The Boys, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and The Magicians, volition committee arsenic showrunner and an enforcement shaper nether an wide woody with Sony Pictures Television for Season 3 instead.

A Season 3 renewal for Twisted Metal arrives aft the Season 2 premiere successful July, arsenic the amusement continues to bring successful viewers. NBCUniversal states the 12-episode tally has reached 993 cardinal minutes viewed truthful far.

Twisted Metal began bringing iconic PlayStation characters to tv screens erstwhile Season 1 premiered successful 2023. It stars Mackie arsenic John Doe, with characters similar Calypso, Agent Stone, and Mr. Grimm played by Anthony Carrigan, Thomas Haden Church, and Richard de Klerk, respectively. There’s also, of course, franchise mascot Sweet Tooth, who is portrayed by Joe Seanoa and voiced by Will Arnett.

Twisted Metal is simply a franchise that has gone without a due video crippled introduction for 13 years, but that isn’t stopping Peacock from bringing its cartoonish conveyance combat to streaming audiences. Co-creators Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick are backmost arsenic enforcement producers for Season 3, with Arnett and Marc Forman besides connected committee via Electric Ave. Mackie volition instrumentality arsenic an enforcement shaper done Make It Gravy Productions, with Inspire Entertainment’s Jason Spire, Artists First’s Peter Principato, PlayStation Productions’ Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan, and Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Hermen Hulst besides attached.

Details connected however Twisted Metal Season 3 volition proceed the communicative stay a mystery, with merchandise day plans and casting details besides nether wraps. In the meantime, you tin work wherefore we deliberation Season 2 deserved a 7/10 successful our review. You tin besides work astir the canceled Twisted Metal crippled that was revealed earlier this year.

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