HBO Max has dropped the official DMZ trailer for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming limited action drama series, which is based on Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s DC graphic novel of the same name. This marks the acclaimed filmmaker’s latest collaboration with DC and Warner Bros. as she’s also currently executive producing The CW’s superhero series Naomi.
The DMZ trailer, which you can check out below along with key art, features Rosario Dawson’s Alma Ortega as she embarks on a dangerous mission through a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in order to find her long-lost son. It highlights the lives of the survivors who were left behind in the war-ridden city.
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DMZ is created and executive produced by Ava DuVernay (When They See Us) and showrunner Robert Patino (Westworld), with DuVernay directing the first episode from a script written by Patino. It stars Rosario Dawson (Briarpatch, Ahsoka), Benjamin Bratt (Doctor Strange), Freddy Miyares (When They See Us), Hoon Lee (Banshee), Jordan Preston Carter, and Venus Ariel.
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The four-part limited series “leaps off the pages of the DC acclaimed graphic novel into the visual landscape of a dangerous and distorted Manhattan as one woman navigates a demilitarized zone in a harrowing quest to find her lost son,” reads the logline.
Additional cast includes guest stars Rutina Wesley, Nora Dunn, Jade Wu, Rey Gallegos, Mamie Gummer, Agam Darshi, Juani Feliz, Henry G. Sanders
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DMZ is executive produced by Emmy winner Carly Wray, Ernest Dickerson, and ARRAY Filmworks’ Paul Garnes, with Dickerson also serving as the director for the rest of the three episodes. It is a production by ARRAY Filmworks and Warner Bros. Television.
All four episodes will be available for streaming on Thursday, March 17.
