Brian Taylor To Direct Twisted Metal For Sony

Deadline reports that Sony is developing a Twisted Metal movie based on the classic 90's video game. The extreme version of an underground demolition derby was somewhat inspired by Roger Corman's Death Race but had it's own original racers. The face of the series is Sweet Tooth, a psychotic clown that drives an Ice Cream truck armed to the teeth. Brian Taylor one half of the directing duo Neveldine/Taylor has been hired to write and direct the film. It will be the first feature film that Brian will do without his partner Mark Neveldine. The pair will still work together on Crank 3 and possibly Ghost Rider 3, if the new film does well at the box office.

Taylor's credits are impressive when compared to other action films considering the rather small budgets he's given to work with. Brian is first and foremost a genre centric director and his films reflect that. Not to mention he makes these rather action packed films with very little money. His directing credits include Crank, Gamer, Crank II: High Voltage and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Brian's writing credits include a majority of the films he directed. He also co-wrote the underrated medical thriller Pathology and an adaptation of the DC Comics character Jonah Hex. The latter had the duo set to direct but dropped out and their script was bastardized leading to one of the worst films of 2010 .

Films That Should Be Made: Big Guy & Rusty The Boy Robot

A mixture of The Iron Giant, Astro Boy and Godzilla it was a short lived comic and animated television series. Created by Frank Miller and artist Geof Darrow who previously worked together on Hard Boiled. This would be yet another great adaptation the mixture of genres would make it perfect for a science fiction fans. After Cloverfield brought back the idea of the large monster genre even with it's super short running time. People are dying to see a sequel well, I think this would be a better and bigger movie. Depending on who gets involved it could end up live-action mixed with CGI like Battle Angel or Avatar.



Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine (Crank, Pathology, Game) would be perfect for the project. Although it seems to be geared towards kids because of it's being adapted to a cartoon. The comic is more rough and violent than what children could handle. It's very adult, when it comes to the destruction of the city and civilians who get killed in the process.



Comic:
"revolves around an attack on Tokyo by a giant reptilian creature that is generated in an experiment gone wrong, and the failure of the newly-commissioned Rusty the Boy Robot to stop the threat. Subsequently, Japan requested help from the U.S. Armed Forces, whose ultimate defense, the robot Big Guy, launches from his air carrier base and uses his awesome arsenal and good old-fashioned American know-how to save the day."



Cartoon Series:
"story is based around New Tronic City, a fictional American city clearly modeled after New York City. Rusty is the most advanced robot with human emotional grid and nucleoprotonic powers that is going to replace the Big Guy, the Earth's last line of defense against all threats alien, domestic, or against the American way. However, Rusty is too inexperienced to stand on his own, so the Big Guy is re-commissioned to teach Rusty the way of trade. Rusty idolizes the Big Guy, regarding him as the best robot ever. Big Guy is actually piloted by Lieutenant Dwayne Hunter, who poses as his chief mechanic."