The last time I wrote with any seriousness about an adaptation of the DMZ series was back in 2014 when it was set up at Syfy with Warner Bros. TV backing it. It’s fallen off the radar for a long time but it was recently resurrected as a pilot for the HBO Max streaming service that’s launching this year. The project has now brought on Rosario Dawson for the leading role where Ava DuVernay is serving as an executive producer and directing the first episode for showrunner Roberto Patino.
The 72 issue series DMZ began in 2005 and ended in 2012, which was created by Brian Wood with Riccardo Burchiellie under the Veritgo Comics imprint of DC Comics.
Plot concept: The story takes place in the near future where America is embroiled in a bitter civil war, leaving Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ – hence the title of the series), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. Dawson will play fierce medic Alma Ortego, who goes on a harrowing journey of saving lives while desperately searching for her lost son. As she contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone here has lost…hope.
[Source: Deadline]
