Metro 2033 | Screen Rights Aquired by MGM Studios

MGM has acquired screen rights to the Russian sci-fi novel Metro 2033 by Dmitri Glukhovsky. Script will be written by F. Scott Frazier and produced by Mark Johnson of Gran Via Productions. Metro has evolved into a 20 book series in Russia and Glukhovsky is working on licensing in additional countries. Metro has been translated into  35 different languages and made into a video game by 4A Games, with a sequel planned for 2013. Metro first appeared online in 2002 and in 2005 finally published as a Russian novel.

Metro 2033 is set in the year 2033 after a nuclear explosion in Moscow leaves survivors forced to survive underground and throughout the Moscow subway system. One survivor is forced to cope with resulting highly charged political factions, remanence of the previous world, and a Fourth Reich.

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