Rosario Dawson is joining another comic adaptation. The “Luke Cage,” “Iron Fist,” and “Defenders” alumna is set to topline “DMZ,” an HBO Max pilot inspired by the Vertigo comic of the same name. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed the news. “When They See Us” creator, writer, director, and exec producer Ava DuVernay is locked in to direct the project and exec produce.
Set in the near future, “DMZ” sees Manhattan transformed into a “no-man’s land separating two sides in a bitter civil war,” the source details. Dawson will play Alma, “a fierce medic who saves lives while desperately searching for her lost son. As she contends with the gangs, militias, demagogues, and warlords who now control the lawless island, she becomes the unlikely source of what everyone there has lost: hope.”
The pilot hails from DuVernay’s Array Filmworks and Warner Bros. TV, where the “Selma” helmer is under a $100 million overall deal.
Dawson stars in “Briarpatch,” an upcoming crime drama about a political fixer who returns to her hometown to investigate her sister’s death. The first season of the planned anthology debuts on USA Network February 6. “Zombieland: Double Tap” and “Someone Great” are among her most recent credits.
