InAva DuVernay ’s upcoming unrecorded - action adaptationof Vertigo’sDMZ for HBO Max , a war - tear Manhattan becomes one of the last remaining “ safe ” zones in the midriff of a civil war that ’s ravage the United States of America . But life for those site on the nominal demilitarized zone is anything but passive .
UnlikeBrian Woodand Riccardo Burchielli ’s DMZ comic , which principally followed a diarist ’s adventures as he traveled to Manhattan five long time after the onset of the warfare , HBO ’s series will alternatively orbit around medic Alma Ortega ( Rosario Dawson ) who returns to the island in search of her Word . As Alma journey through the ruination of the DMZ , she ’ll encounter figures like Parco Delgado ( Benjamin Bratt ) , one of the island ’s most remorseless crowd leader contend to secure dominance of the island . Treacherous as the DMZ is , though , Alma will find a number of allies among the rest of the island ’s persist population of people who were n’t evacuated during the war ’s onset .
This calendar week , DC Comics announced nine new stamp members get to the show , who will all act some part in DMZ ’s story of how Alma ’s search for her son convey something unexpected to everyone ’s life . Rutina Wesley ( True Blood ) , Rey Gallegos ( Animal Kingdom ) , Mamie Gummer ( True Detective ) , Agam Darshi ( Funny Boy ) , Nora Dunn ( The Big Leap ) , Jade Wu ( Luke Cage ) , Juani Feliz ( Harlem ) , Venus Ariel ( NCIS : New Orleans ) , and Henry G. Sanders ( Queen Sugar ) are all localize to come out across DMZ ’s four episodes . No character detail have been revealed specifically yet , other than that they ’re all people who bilk paths with Alma on her journey .
A helicopter taking in the sights over the DMZ.Image: Ricardo Burchielli
In addition to executive producing with Westworld ’s Roberto Patino , DuVernay will guide DMZ ’s first episode , with the remaining three being helmed by Juice and The Walking all in director Ernest Dickerson . Watchmen writer Carly Wray was also announce as one of DMZ ’s writers , and the peck of promulgation as a whole makes it sound like HBO ’s hop for DMZ to be one of its next heavy decisive hits that prompt audience how comics stories are n’t all just about superheroes and alien .
Though shooting for DMZ ’s pilot wrapped last year , the undertaking is still presently in output , signify that we ’re belike still a ways out from seeing and hearing more of what the show ’s snuff it to be like .
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Top row, from left to right: Rutina Wesley, Rey Gallegos, Mamie Gummer. Bottom row, from left to right:: Agam Darshi, Nora Dunn, Jade Wu.Image: DC Comics/HBO Max
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