Series Twisted Metal progressing well, she who was recently commissioned by the video on demand service peacock. We know it will take the form of an action-comedy soap opera, led by Anthony Mackie in the lead role of John Doeamnesiac hero forced to take part in deadly car fights.
Deadline reports this week that two more familiar faces will join the cast of the project. We have on one side Thomas Haden Church (Sandman in Spider Man 3), who will embody theAgent Stone, one of the PlayStation game’s playable characters, here depicted as “a cold, unyielding post-apocalyptic highway patrolman who rules the roads with a tongue hanging out and a twisted iron fist, pursuing even the smallest crimes with the harshest judgments. He will not hesitate to “kill anyone in his path who challenges his power”.
Opposite, we will find Stephanie Beatriz (Mirabel in Encanto, Rosa in Brooklyn Nine-Nine), who will be Quiet“a fierce and badass car thief who acts purely on instinct […]from a community that oppressed her in silence”, whose chaotic desire for revenge will lead her to form an antagonistic bond towards John Doe. The series led by Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra-Kai) does not yet have a release date, but while its filming should begin soon, we must admit that its beginning of casting makes you want to see more.
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