Peacock revving up Anthony Mackie's 'Twisted Metal' series

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Twisted Metal, Anthony Mackie‘s action-comedy show based on the hit Sony PlayStation game series of the same name, will unspool on the streaming service Peacock. 

As previously reported, the project is being executive-produced by Deadpool and Zombieland screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, and written by co-executive producer and Cobra Kai writer Michael Jonathan Smith.

The games center on tricked-out vehicles and burned-out drivers going at each other in a post-apocalyptic world, though the half-hour, live-action series will be more fleshed out than that.

The series will have Marvel movie star Mackie playing John Doe, a motor-mouthed, amnesiac milkman who must travel across the wasteland in his souped-up milk