{"id":37486,"date":"2022-05-19T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=37486"},"modified":"2022-05-19T15:46:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T19:46:36","slug":"thomas-haden-church-set-to-star-in-new-peacock-comedy-series-twisted-metal-a-live-action-adaptation-of-the-global-video-game-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/thomas-haden-church-set-to-star-in-new-peacock-comedy-series-twisted-metal-a-live-action-adaptation-of-the-global-video-game-phenomenon\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Haden Church Set to Star in New Peacock Comedy Series &#8220;Twisted Metal,&#8221; A Live-Action Adaptation of the Global Video Game Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37487 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-750x1125.jpg 750w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thomas-Haden-Church-1140x1710.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Peacock announced today that Thomas Haden Church (<em>Sideways, Divorce, Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>) will star in the new action-comedy series TWISTED METAL, a live-action adaptation of the global video game phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Anthony Mackie (<em>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/em>) is also starring and executive producing. Stephanie Beatriz (<em>Encanto, Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>) to co-star opposite Mackie.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2278895622\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00b7 Will Arnett and Marc Forman from Electric Avenue (<em>Murderville<\/em>) secured the rights to the material and helped put the project together alongside Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan from PlayStation Productions, are also set to executive produce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Michael Jonathan Smith (<em>Cobra Kai<\/em>) will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer for the live-action comedy from Sony Pictures Television, PlayStation Productions, and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Kitao Sakurai (<em>The Eric Andre Show, Bad Trip<\/em>) will executive produce and direct multiple episodes of the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 TWISTED METAL, a half-hour live-action TV series based on the classic PlayStation game series, is a high-octane action comedy, based on an original take by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Deadpool, Zombieland) about 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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>NEW SERIES LEAD AND CHARACTER DESCRIPTION:<\/p><div id=\"morty-4070952469\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>THOMAS HADEN CHURCH (<em>Sideways, Divorce, Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em>) will play &#8220;Agent Stone,&#8221; a cold and unyielding post-apocalyptic highway patrolman who rules the roads with a silver tongue and a twisted iron fist, prosecuting even the smallest crimes with the harshest of judgements. 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