HBO Max announced that it would book an adaptation of DC's Vertigo comic book "DMZ Demilitarized Zone DMZ", directed by Ava DuVernay of When They See Us when they see us. The pilot, scheduled for the first half of 20 years, tells the story of Manhattan becoming a demilitarized zone under the American Civil War in the near future, ravaged and isolated by the war, and the protagonist is a female military doctor looking for her missing son. while saving different lives, and dealing with gangs, militias, warlords and instigators.