9/17/2023 0 Comments 2008 mountain dew logo![]() ![]() Pizza Hut had delivered a salami pizza to the International Space Station. Weezer had welcomed fans to an Island in the Sun. In a letter to press to herald the arrival of Twisted Metal, Smith wrote the following: Showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith is certainly passionate. Which just might work if every other game adaptation feels the need to go the prestige TV or straight-faced MCU route. This is the world, and Twisted Metal is ready to still be the most 1995 thing imaginable. Movie did the thing the 1993 movie could not (be mostly good and make a humongous amount of money) Sonic the Hedgehog is a movie star, and Knuckles is getting his own streaming series. The Last of Us was a mega-hit for HBO The Super Mario Bros. The Twisted Metal TV show arrives at a time when approximately no one is thinking about the Twisted Metal games, but every studio is thinking about video games. (L) Stephanie Beatriz as Quiet and Anthony Mackie as John Doe (R) Thomas Haden Church as Agent Stone Photos: Skip Bolen/Peacock A homicidal clown does not eat fruits and vegetables, eats blood!! Jaffe and Campbell eventually got their way, and the rest is rated-M-for-Mature history.īy the 2000s, Twisted Metal was popular enough that rumors of a Twisted Metal movie actually made sense! Campbell even floats the idea in the The Dark Past doc - wouldn’t it be great if this Mad Max -inspired game could play out on the big screen? That didn’t happen, but not without years of trying in the 2010s, Crank’s Brian Taylor was actively trying to rev it forward. According to Campbell, late into development, Japanese executives wondered if the guns on the cars could fire fruits and vegetables. The rest is ridiculous history, against some high odds: Sony originally wanted to pivot the Twisted Metal concept to a pizza delivery game, and after finally talking the company into pursuing a more twiiiiissted violent concept, Sony Japan had endless notes. ![]() According to Twisted Metal game creators David Jaffe and Scott Campbell in the twiiiiissted and incredibly entertaining mini-doc Twisted Metal: The Dark Past (which, as we all know, was included as a bonus feature on 2008’s Twisted Metal: Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition), the idea for Twisted Metal came to them during classic bumper-to-bumper Los Angeles traffic, when they imagined how twiiiiissted it would be if they could use missiles to blast away the cars to freedom. ![]()
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