A Metro 2033 movie died because producers tried to set it in America

Metro 2033 is getting a movie adaptation - or, rather, it was. MGM picked up the rights to the novel that inspired the game series back in 2012, but the project wound up dead in the water as producers attempted to Americanise it by swapping the Moscow tunnel setting for Washington DC. Rights have now reverted to author Dmitry Glukhovsky, who now says “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.” Glukhovsky tells VG247 that the differences in politics and social implications is a big part of why the attempted screenplay didn’t work. “In Washington DC, Nazis don’t work, Communists don’t work at all, and the Dark Ones don’t work. Washington DC is a black city basically. That’s not at all the allusion I want to have, it’s a metaphor of general xenophobia but it’s not a comment on African Americans at all. So it didn’t work.”

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