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Bruckheimer & J. Michael Straczynski Coming Together For SHATTERED UNION!!

Merrick here...
Jerry Bruckheimer and J. Michael Straczynski (BABYLON 5, CHANGELING) are allying to bring SHATTERED UNION to the big screen. It's based on a 2K game which is available HERE.
In the game, states secede from the U.S. and form their own governments that wage a civil war against each other after Washington, D.C., is wiped out in a nuclear blast and chaos ravages the nation. Players control one of the warring group of states -- the California Commonwealth, Republic of Texas and New England Alliance are three of the six -- or a European peacekeeping unit sent to reunify America.
...explains THIS piece in Variety. Similar territory was recently explored on CBS by the series JERICHO. The show garnered lackluster ratings but raised a rabid fanbase whose devotion resulted in a soon-to-be-released "Season 3" comic book series (from the show's masterminds). Like UNION, the JERICHO comics will chronicle a modern day Civil War in America. The SHATTERED UNION game looks like this...


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