Metro 2033 Movie Back in Development
Russian media company to produce Metro 2033 movie development and moves forward with a release date set for 2022.
Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky has sold film rights for his science fiction novel Metro 2033 to MGM Studios back in 2012. However, a proposed idea to Americanize that project caused it to be scrapped and its right reverts back to him.
Most recently, Russia's largest media company Gazprom-Media and its associated subsidiary companies agreed to co-produce a Russia-based adaptation that would start filming next year to meet a release schedule of January 1, 2022.
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After turning down several visual adaptation pitches for years, Glukhovsky has finally met a group of creative personnel who are just as ambitious as him to adapt Metro trilogy into major blockbuster movies that will even stun its fans.
Glukhovsky will also be joining as a creative advisor and co-producer Valery Fedorovich states that they will be running promotion for the movie in and outside of Russia aside from investing an unprecedented amount in production.
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Metro 2033 is set around a premise of a dystopian Moscow, where post-nuclear holocaust survivors are forced to take shelter into underground and fractions are formed to fend off deadly mutant creatures for survival.
A survivor named Artyom living in Metro system goes to seek help from an elite soldier of Spartan Order. He comes across various groups during his journey who are being attacked by mysterious creatures known as the Dark Ones.
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Glukhovsky originally published his first novel on his website in 2002 before it was subsequently published in 2005 via print format. It eventually spawned two critically-acclaimed sequels that ended up becoming best-sellers in Russia.
Long before a movie adaptation was taken into consideration, Glukhovsky teamed up with Kiev-based developer studio 4A Games to adapt Metro 2033 into video games, leading to sequels Metro: Last Light (2013) and Metro Exodus (2019).
Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky has sold film rights for his science fiction novel Metro 2033 to MGM Studios back in 2012. However, a proposed idea to Americanize that project caused it to be scrapped and its right reverts back to him.
Most recently, Russia's largest media company Gazprom-Media and its associated subsidiary companies agreed to co-produce a Russia-based adaptation that would start filming next year to meet a release schedule of January 1, 2022.
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| Metro 2033 Movie Back in Development |
RELATED: Metro Exodus DLC Expansion Pass Roadmap
After turning down several visual adaptation pitches for years, Glukhovsky has finally met a group of creative personnel who are just as ambitious as him to adapt Metro trilogy into major blockbuster movies that will even stun its fans.
Glukhovsky will also be joining as a creative advisor and co-producer Valery Fedorovich states that they will be running promotion for the movie in and outside of Russia aside from investing an unprecedented amount in production.
RELATED: Metro Exodus Adds Game Plus Mode
Metro 2033 is set around a premise of a dystopian Moscow, where post-nuclear holocaust survivors are forced to take shelter into underground and fractions are formed to fend off deadly mutant creatures for survival.
A survivor named Artyom living in Metro system goes to seek help from an elite soldier of Spartan Order. He comes across various groups during his journey who are being attacked by mysterious creatures known as the Dark Ones.
RELATED: Metro Exodus Story Trailer
Glukhovsky originally published his first novel on his website in 2002 before it was subsequently published in 2005 via print format. It eventually spawned two critically-acclaimed sequels that ended up becoming best-sellers in Russia.
Long before a movie adaptation was taken into consideration, Glukhovsky teamed up with Kiev-based developer studio 4A Games to adapt Metro 2033 into video games, leading to sequels Metro: Last Light (2013) and Metro Exodus (2019).
