Det var ett tag tänkt att Sony-spelserien Twisted Metal skulle förvandlas till storfilm och bakom kameran skulle Crank-regissören Brian Taylor stå. Han kunde dock inte få Sony Pictures att skaka fram en tillräckligt fet budget vilket gjorde att projektet lades på is, och sedan tynade bort. Nu har han dock pratat lite om tankarna kring Twisted Metal: The Movie i en intervju med Collider och tydligen var det tänkt att ingen mindre än Nicolas Cage skulle spela den brinnande helvetesclownen Sweet Tooth (som skulle fungera som huvudrollsfiguren).
"That was gonna be badass... It's batshit. It was kind of like Fury Road before Fury Road in a way. The set pieces in Twisted Metal were kind of the same thing. It became like a 'tweener. Sony came out with a new version of the game, didn't really sell that well. So they had this property that was kind of like this 'tweener. It was a movie that felt like it needed to be $50 million, but they didn't feel that the fanbase really merited that kind of movie; it really wanted to be more of a $15 million movie, but the nature of it with the set pieces would've just made it too big.
"I wanted Nic Cage to be Sweet Tooth... Even Sweet Tooth is kind of like the Fury Road guy, you know it's the mask and the clown with the crazy car. It kind of feels the same..." Link!
Hade du velat se en Mad Max-liknande film baserad på Twisted Metal med Nicolas Cage i huvudrollen?
Vi minns framförallt Twisted Metal: Black som ett av de roligaste actionspelen till PS2.