Multiple film and TV projects have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19, with more and more productions deciding to err on the side of caution and temporarily shutter cameras. However,
DMZ has powered through.
New Gods director Ava DuVernay has taken to Twitter to announce that production has now wrapped on the DC Comics adaptation, which is currently set to premiere on the new HBO Max streaming service next year. Series lead
Rosario Dawson replied, referring to her time spent on the DMZ set as "one of the most phenomenal work experiences of my life."
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DMZ is a special project to me as it marks a key collaboration with my company Array Filmworks, the excellent team at Warner Bros TV and the dynamo Roberto Patino,” DuVernay said in a statement last year.
“We’ve all worked diligently on this material, and I’ve witnessed Roberto in action. He’s insanely talented and cares about telling stories with maximum impact and imagination. I’m eager to share this one with DC fans.”
The comic is set in the near future, where a Second American Civil War has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone (DMZ), caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist Free States of America.
This take on the material will focus on a female medic (Dawson) who is "trying day-in and day-out to help keep residents alive while trying to also find her lost son. In the process, that determined medic proves a source of hope in an America that has lost all sense of the idea."
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