HBO Max orders pilot for Ava DuVernay-directed DC Comics Civil War series DMZ

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Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s DC Comics series, depicting a second Civil War between the United States of America and secessionist Free States of America, is in the works at the WarnerMedia streaming service. Westworld and Sons of Anarchy veteran producer Roberto Pattino will serve as showrunner, writer and executive producer, while DuVernay will direct and executive produce. The pilot is scheduled to begin filming in early 2020. According to HBO Max's official description, DMZ “chronicles the harrowing journey of a fierce female medic who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son. But as she contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords that control this lawless no man’s land, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone here has lost: hope.”