‘Twisted Metal’ Peacock Series Casts Thomas Haden Church
variety.comJoe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Twisted Metal” series at Peacock has cast Thomas Haden Church.Church will star opposite previously announced series leads Anthony Mackie and Stephanie Beatriz.
The show is described as a half-hour action comedy based on the Playstation video games of the same name.In the show, a motor-mouthed outsider (Mackie) is 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 (Beatriz), he’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.Church will play Agent Stone, said to be 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.
Agent Stone will stop at nothing to bring law and order back to the Divided States of America, and will kill anyone in his path who defies his power.
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