Twisted Metal had been previously optioned for film in 2012, but was eventually dropped, as the production team wanted a bigger budget than the studio wanted to give them (Collider).
The series is going to be a half-hour action-comedy that will follow Mackie’s character, John Doe, an amnesiac “who talks as fast as he drives” as he attempts to drive across a post-apocalyptic wasteland in order to deliver supplies to an isolated outpost.