Brian Wood's Blog - "We also had a near miss with setting DMZ up as a television show, at a verrrry respectable network, and its a bit crushing. I had hoped the whole new 'DC Entertainment' meant they’d be better about this sort of thing… and this deal seemed like a gift from heaven… but apparently not."
Plot - The series is set in the near future, where a second civil war has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone, caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist "Free States".
The protagonist is Matthew (Matty) Roth, a naïve photo journalism intern from Long Island, who enters the DMZ with a news-crew. He becomes trapped when the rest of the news crew and the soldiers escorting them are killed in a firefight with "insurgents". Matty becomes the only journalist on the ground in the DMZ and he begins to report on the daily struggle of life for the everyday citizens of Manhattan. - wikipedia
It actually sounds like it would make for a good tv show. You have a bleak futuristic Manhattan which reminds me of
Escape from New York. Each episode would probably just revolve around the character, Matt, exploring this butchered version of Manhattan.
The comic has one major cheerleader in Warren Ellis, who has his own unique vision for the series. He said, "I'd be interested to see Nicolas Winding Refn, director of the demented Viking movie 'Valhalla Rising,' do an adaptation of Brian's 'DMZ' graphic novels, because I think he'd make that book's broken and bombed-out Manhattan a very alienating and alienated place."
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