Back in 2012, MGM acquired the rights to a film adaptation of Metro 2033, Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic novel.
Much like the primary game, the film was deliberate to observe the story of the primary ebook, although scriptwriter F. Scott Frazier deliberate to Americanise it, setting it in Washington D.C. Unfortunately – or luckily, relying on the way you see it – manufacturing has been halted and the rights have reverted to Glukhovsky.
“The project with MGM optioning this book and developing a script had brought us to nothing and the rights reverted to me,” Glukhovsky tells me throughout a current interview. “So currently we are speaking with a new set of producers about a possible adaptation but this is a very long and difficult process. I’m still optimistic. We’ll see if the release of Metro Exodus can push the IP across a little bit the oceans and see how that works.”
As talked about beforehand, the author was planning to scoop out most of what makes Metro what it’s. Part of Metro’s appeal is how intrinsically Russian it’s, set inside the veins of Moscow – subway traces that double as a fallout shelter and with a personal, government-only line operating parallel to it.
Even outdoors of the setting, Metro 2033 is a narrative stuffed with metaphor. It’s about tribalism, nationalism, and a misplaced concern of the overseas.
“A lot of things didn’t work out in Washington DC,” Glukhovsky explains. “In Washington DC, Nazis don’t work, Communists don’t work in any respect, and the Dark Ones don’t work. Washington DC is a black metropolis principally. That’s in no way the allusion I wish to have, it’s a metaphor of basic xenophobia however it’s not a touch upon African Americans in any respect. So it didn’t work.
“They needed to substitute the Dark Ones with some type of random beasts and so long as the beasts don’t look human, your complete story of xenophobia doesn’t work which was essential to me as a satisfied internationalist. They turned it into a really generic factor.
“They’re type of afraid of setting it in Moscow as a result of Americans have a repute for liking tales about America. Again, with Metro Last Light and Metro 2033 – the books and the games – promoting hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide, it’s most likely not as unbelievable now that folks would settle for a narrative taking place in Moscow as a result of that’s going to be the distinctive promoting level. We’ve seen the American model of apocalypse quite a lot of occasions and the viewers that just like the style are educated and saturated and probably not wishing to get anymore of that.”
Metro Exodus, the following video game within the collection, is ready for launch on February 22.
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