Metro 2033, the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel that impressed a game of the identical title, is being made right into a film.
Russian manufacturing firm Gazprom Media are adapting the 2002 novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky right into a characteristic movie scheduled to launch in early 2022, Variety studies.
Metro 2033 is already an enormous worldwide franchise. The post-apocalyptic universe is made up of the unique Glukhovsky trilogy, which incorporates Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, tons of of tie-in novels written by followers, and several other video games. The first novel within the collection has been translated into 40 languages, with greater than 5 million copies bought.
This would be the first movie adaptation of Glukhovsky’s work.
But it isn’t the first time a film adaptation has been attempted. MGM acquired the rights to the novel in 2012 with plans to set the story in Washington D.C. earlier than manufacturing halted and the rights had been reverted again to Glukhovsky.
The movie’s producer Evgeniy Nikishov has urged the challenge may benefit from the rising curiosity in post-apocalyptic popular culture.
“In the last decades, a real mass culture cult of post-apocalyptic fiction has taken shape in our country, therefore, it bears great box-office potential,” Nikishov stated. “Books by the Strugatsky Brothers and Dmitry Glukhovsky, the Fallout and The Last of Us video games, the Walking Dead series, and the Mad Max [movies] are just a few titles on the list of those that are popular with Russians of all ages. That’s why we are planning the largest-scale advertising campaign we have ever done.”
This is a good excuse to go back and have a read of our interview with Glukhovsky on politics, writing for video games, video game publishers, and the failed Metro film adaptation.
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