A TV show based on 10-title video game franchise “Twisted Metal” is in development according to Sony Pictures’ Chairman and CEO, Tony Vinciquerra, IGN reports.

“We have a TV show we just agreed to get underway,” Vinciquerra told a group of investors during a May 21 presentation, shortly after PlayStation Productions had been announced.

The franchise debuted in 1995 on the original PlayStation console and was characterised by a weaponised ice cream truck operated by a psychotic clown called Sweet Tooth.

Its story mode saw players battle to survive a series of gladiatorial rounds in order to be granted a wish, no matter how generous or impossible, by the tournament organiser.

Speculatively speaking, the franchise’s last-person-standing format combined with its anarchic theming suggests that an episodic TV adaptation could fit somewhere between “The Purge” and “Mad Max,” within a “Fortnite”-style Battle Royale format.

Vinciquerra also acknowledged the ongoing and “advanced” development of a movie based on the “Uncharted” franchise.

The film project is currently associated with director Dan Trachtenberg, of bunker-based post-apoc thriller “10 Cloverfield Lane,” a “Black Mirror” episode called Playtest (in which a temp employee works on a survival horror game), and Sony Pictures’ anti-superhero series “The Boys,” due on Amazon Prime Video in July.

Before “10 Cloverfield Lane,” he was known for directing video game homage “Portal: No Escape” and for his participation in film, TV, games and comics podcast “The Totally Rad Show.”