Twisted Metal's live-action TV adaptation gets its first teaser trailer

One day after word of its US air date began to circulate, Sony’s Twisted Metal live-action television series has received its first trailer.

More accurately, today’s first look is being described as an “official teaser”, which probably does a better job of managing your expectations. It’s short on action – and pretty much anything at all you might think of when you hear the words “Twisted Metal” – but it does introduce Anthony Mackie in his starring role.

Mackie, you might recall, plays a “motor-mouthed outsider” who’s offered a chance at a better life, as long as he can deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. We don’t get to see much of that in today’s teaser, but there is a vaguely amusing musical bait-and-switch, a bit of aerial footage, and thankfully – given the video game series’ vehicular combat roots – at least one shot of a car with some guns stuck to the front.