![]() ![]() "We've seen the American version of apocalypse a lot of times and the audience that like the genre are educated and saturated and not really wishing to get anymore of that."Įven worse, the attempt to Americanize Metro 2033 muddled the novel's political themes. "They're kind of afraid of setting it in Moscow, because Americans have a reputation for liking stories about America," Glukhovsky said. It seems Glukhovsky's concerns fell on deaf ears, at least until the project fell through. ![]() But wouldn't moving the adaptation to a well-explored city like Washington D.C.-the setting for Fallout 3 and parts of The Walking Dead-transform the novel's political and geographic specificity into yet another generic post-apocalyptic action-adventure? Perhaps it's unsurprising that a studio would be risk-averse about a sprawling, big budget post-apocalyptic epic set in Russia, particularly since anti-Russian sentiment is booming in the United States. "The project with MGM optioning this book and developing a script had brought us nothing and the rights reverted to me," Glukhovsky told VG24/7.Īccording to Glukhovsky, the biggest hitch for the movie studio was… the core premise of the novel. ![]() In an interview with VG24/7 Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky revealed the movie adaptation had been cancelled. The Moscow Metro has become a subterranean landscape of different factions. ![]()
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