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But, you know, thereвЂ™s going to be two parties in this nuclear war. WeвЂ™ve seen a lot of American vision of this post-nuclear holocaust thing. Why is it important to get an authentic Russian feel for the film? They didnвЂ™t have the scale and the ambition to do justice to the franchise. No one had the budget or production capabilities. When Metro 2033 came out, there was no film company in Russia with the resources necessary to tell this story. Why didnвЂ™t you take that route in the beginning?

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YouвЂ™re making the movie now with Russian partners. But at the time, there was no precedent for this.

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The HBO series Chernobyl is actually the first example of an American or European production set in Russia that depicts the place and the people with precision and accuracy and without caricature. The American film industry has a solid fixed image of what Russia is, what it looks like.

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That seemed to be quite risky too because American films about Russia are full of cliches and stereotypes. The far right nationalists in Europe are cosplaying the вЂњold good daysвЂќ of Europe, where nationalist and racist rhetoric was OK.Дid you consider setting the American adaptation in Russia? Putin is cosplaying the Soviet Union in the вЂ™80s. Donald Trump is cosplaying America in the вЂ™50s. ItвЂ™s the historically proven dilemma that we are facing right now. ItвЂ™s the story of how humanity endlessly repeats the old mistakes and canвЂ™t learn from the past. But you canвЂ™t really imagine communists in D.C. So there are Nazis and communists, and theyвЂ™re basically fighting again, in an endless circuit, the old, ideological wars of the 20th century. In my story, the metro stations under Moscow become independent, self-sustaining governments, kind of city-states, and they invent or reuse the ideologies from the past. They wanted to reset the story in Washington, D.C.

But basically MGM assigned a writer that did not have much perspective on the story. Well, the rights bounced around a bit before landing at MGM, and the producer, Mark Johnson, was very experienced and a very nice guy. What went wrong with the Hollywood adaptation of Metro 2033? Glukhovsky spoke to THR about 10 years mired in development and why heвЂ™s finally ready to make Metro 2033В вЂњthe right way вЂ¦ in Russian.вЂќ Shooting starts in Moscow next summer, and Central Partnership has the project at AFM for presales. This year, he signed a deal with Russian producers Valeriy Fedorovich and Evgeniy Nikishov and Moscow-based Premier Studios to adapt Metro 2033, with corporate giant Gazprom Media financing. After failed attempts to transpose his story from Moscow to Washington, D.C., the rights to Metro 2033 finally reverted to Glukhovsky. Hollywood came calling the book was optioned and eventually landed at MGM, with Breaking Bad producer Mark Johnson attached. Sequels followed and, in 2010, a video game adaptation of the book - which Glukhovsky helped develop - became a surprise indie hit. That led to a book deal and, when it was published in 2005, Metro 2033 became a success, with more than 5 million copies sold. Glukhovsky put the manuscript on his website, where more than 2 million Russians read it. Sadly, they choose to repeat the mistakes of the past, re-creating factions of neo-Nazis and communists, alongside the Dark Ones, a new race of mutants, burned black by the atomic blasts (a metaphor for RussiaвЂ™s growing fear of darkskinned immigrants). At 18, he published his first novel, Metro 2033, a post-apocalyptic dystopia inspired by the chaos of 1990s Russia and set in MoscowвЂ™s subway system, where the last survivors of a global nuclear holocaust retreat to rebuild society. He was 10 when the Berlin Wall fell, 12 when the Soviet Union collapsed. Dmitry GlukhovskyвЂ™s life story reads like a Hollywood Cinderella tale, seasoned with a strong dose of Russian fatalism.

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