Produktionen på Metro 2033-filmen er stoppet

Der er en række større filmatiseringer af kendte spilprojekter i støbeskeen, og blandt disse finder vi en film baseret på Dmitry Glukhovskys roman Metro 2033, som 4A Games også har lavet en række succesfulde spil ud af. Filmen har været undervejs længe, men nu er den kommet i vanskeligheder.

Forfatteren har nemlig afsløret overfor VG247, at produktionen er stoppet, og at rettighederne er blevet overført tilbage til ham.

"The project with MGM optioning this book and developing a script had brought us to nothing and the rights reverted to me. 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."

Filmen skulle være foregået i Washington D.C., men angiveligvis er der her at dele af problemet er opstået.

"A lot of things didn't work out in Washington DC. 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.