‘Twisted Metal’ Star Anthony Mackie On Squaring Up With Samoa Joe & Adapting A Video Game He Grew Up Playing
deadline.comAnthony Mackie spent the better part of his childhood playing Twisted Metal on the Playstation. Now, he’s the face of Peacock’s adaptation, which debuted Thursday — nearly two decades after the first version of the game.
Fans of Twisted Metal will know that the vehicular combat games don’t exactly tell a story. “It was just a bunch of people, a bunch of cars, who do you want to fight?” as the Marvel actor put it. “So with the series, we were able to make that backstory and create that background to where now you’re invested in these characters.
And when you go back and play the game, now you have a completely different relationship with those characters who are in the game,” he told Deadline during a recent interview.
Mackie plays John Doe, a motor-mouthed outsider living in a post-apocalyptic world where he’s tasked with delivering packages to and from the various new settlements that have popped up around the country.
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