Rosario Dawson hunts for her son as Second Civil War rages in DMZ trailer

Rosario Dawson stars in HBO Max's new miniseries, DMZ, based on the comic book series of the same name.

Rosario Dawson stars as a woman hunting for her missing son in the dystopian ruins of Manhattan in DMZ. The new miniseries is based on the comic book series created by Brian Wood and illustrated by Riccardo Burchielli. Part of the show will premiere during SXSW this month before landing on HBO Max. The official trailer just dropped, and it seems to be equal parts Escape from New York and FX/Hulu's Y: The Last Man.

(Some mild spoilers for the comic books below.)

Published from November 2005 through February 2012, Wood and Burchielli's comic book series is set in a near future in which the US has been devastated by the Second American Civil War, and Manhattan has turned into the demilitarized zone of the title. Only about 400,000 people remain on the island, mostly people too poor to evacuate, snipers associated with various factions, and stubborn holdouts who just refuse to leave. (The comics are very New York-centric, inspired by Wood's experiences living in NYC in early 2003-i.e., the aftermath of 9/11 and US invasion of Iraq.)

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