After Netflix's 'When They See Us', Ava DuVernay To Helm Civil War Drama for HBO Max

Ava DuVernay is definitely raking in some big projects that need to have a view at. After the immense critical acclaim she received for Netflix's When They See Us, the writer-director has now struck a deal with forthcoming streamer, HBO Max.

DuVernay and Westworld executive producer Roberto Patino are developing a series based on DC Comics title DMZ, a futuristic drama set in an American civil war. The project has a pilot order at the WarnerMedia streaming platform.

Based on the critically hailed Brian Wood-Riccardo Burchielli comic, DMZ is set in a near-future where America is embroiled in a bitter civil war. The island of Manhattan has become a demilitarized zone separating the two sides, largely destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world. 

The series will follow a fierce female 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 order comes a day after President Trump, facing an impeachment inquiry in Congress, tweeted a quote from Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress referring to a "Civil War-like fracture" if Trump is removed from office. HBO Max is set to launch in spring 2020 with a deep roster of library series and movies from across WarnerMedia properties, including Friends, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones and The Big Bang Theory. The streamer has greenlit more than a dozen scripted and unscripted series and is developing several pilots and original feature films.