News culture This post-apo series, modeled on a video game, will have a second season: it’s official!
As part of its policy of adapting many of its licenses to the big and small screen, Sony recently offered its Twisted Metal series: good news for those who enjoyed it, there will be a second season.
More and more crumpled metal
There was a time when Twisted Metal was one of Sony’s flagship franchises: The first title was released in 1995 on the first PlayStation, on which there were at least four sequels. By the time of the PS3 installment in 2012, more works will have seen the light of subsequent generations, again led by series creator David Jaffe (yes, the one behind the first God of War).
In short, a car combat game – a demolition derby, as they say – that was recently adapted in a television series this year, commissioned by PlayStation Studios’ Peacock: The story was about a simple driver (Anthony Mackie, the Falcon in the MCU) who found himself in a post-apocalyptic universe. His mission? Compete against other pilots in bloody arenas.
That first season was a commercial and critical success, and that’s what it is We learn that a second season has therefore been ordered, again on behalf of Peacock. It was Anthony Mackie who announced it himself on stage at the Game Awards 2023: for now No release window has been announced.
Neither Sony’s first nor last project
For several years, One of Sony’s new policies is to adapt its various franchises to the Seventh Art, and it’s clear that things are going pretty well. The Japanese giant has created a new division specifically for this called PlayStation Studios, which already offers the film Uncharted (a sequel is also in the pipeline) with Tom Holland, the feature film Gran Turismo and the acclaimed series The Last of Us on HBO (yes, season 2 comes) and with it the Twisted Metal series on Peacock, which was very positively received.
That’s not all, because Other major projects have been made official: a Ghost of Tsushima film from director John Wick, a God of War series for Prime Video and even another Horizon commissioned by Netflix. Sony wants to cast a wide net and is working not with a single VOD platform, but with most of them, without forgetting cinemas. A damn good project.