New ‘Captain America’ Anthony Mackie Goes Incognito to Play John Doe in ‘Twisted Metal’
Anthony Mackie is having a hell of a year.
The star of Marvel’s Falcon and the Winter Soldier, recently dubbed the new Captain America, has now added a new high-profile role to his resume.
Mackie has been cast in the lead role on Sony Pictures Television’s live-action Twisted Metal series. Mackie will play John Doe in the show, which is based on the popular vehicular combat video-game series first launched in 1995.
Twisted Metal comes from writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, who co-wrote Zombieland, both Deadpool movies, and 6 Underground, which were movies with equal parts action and comedy. Reese and Wernick are executive producing the series, but Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai), will handle the scripts, and executive produce as well.
Mackie will also serve as an executive producer on the show. Sony and PlayStation Productions said in a press release on Wednesday that they are “currently in advanced development on the project and plan to take it to buyers soon.”
Doe is described by Sony as “a smart-ass milkman who talks as fast as he drives.”
“With no memory of his past, John gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make his wish of finding community come true, but only if he can survive an onslaught of savage vehicular combat,” Sony continued.
“Twisted Metal is a high-octane action comedy about a motor-mouthed outsider (Doe) offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland,” the show’s logline reads. “With the help of a trigger-happy car thief, 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.”
Mackie is nominated for a Hollywood Critics Association award for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which was a huge hit for Disney+. Prior to that, he appeared as Sam Wilson in multiple films in the MCU, most notably Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, as well as the Avengers films. He will take on the role of Cap in Captain America 4. His other credits include starring in Synchronic, Seberg, The Hurt Locker and Outside the Wire, which he produced for Netflix.
The show will be a half-hour live-action TV series, and insiders say Sony TV and PlayStation Productions are extremely high on the package. As Sony does not have its own streaming service, the show could appear on almost any platform.