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Glukhovsky revealed to VG24/7 the reasoning behind the project’s cancellation was that scriptwriter F. Scott Frazier wanted the film to take place in Washington, rather than Moscow where the book (and game series) is set.
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A lot of things didn’t work out in Washington DC. In Washington DC, Nazis don’t work, Communists don’t work at all, and the Dark Ones don’t work. Washington DC is a black city basically. That’s not at all the allusion I want to have, it’s a metaphor of general xenophobia but it’s not a comment on African Americans at all. So it didn’t work.He went on to reveal that the studio intended to replace the Dark Ones – the “villains” of Metro 2033 who aren’t really villains – with “some kind of random beasts”.
As Glukhovsky put it, that doesn’t really work with the theme of his story:
As long as the beasts don’t look human, the entire story of xenophobia doesn’t work which was very important to me as a convinced internationalist. They turned it into a very generic thing.
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He said:
With Metro Last Light and Metro 2033—the books and the games—selling millions and millions of copies worldwide, it’s probably not as improbable now that people would accept a story happening in Moscow because that’s going to be the unique selling point. We’ve seen the American version of apocalypse a lot of times and the audience that like the genre are educated and saturated and not really wishing to get anymore of that.
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