Army Sgt. 1st Class Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer of “The Last Sons of America,” also plays the trumpet in the U. S. Army Field Band.
A gritty future where nobody in the U. S. is able to have children after a biological terrorist attack will soon be brought to life as a Netflix original movie starring «Game of Thrones» star Peter Dinklage — all from the imagination of an Army sergeant.
Based on the post-apocalyptic graphic novel “The Last Sons of America,” which Sgt 1st Class Phillip Kennedy Johnson wrote while serving as a trumpet player with the Washington, D. C.-based U. S. Army Field Band. The adaptation will be produced by Matt Reeves, writer and director of the upcoming Warner Bros. film “The Batman,” Netflix announced earlier this month.
“I haven’t had time to really process everything yet, but I’m really excited,” said Johnson, who has served 13 years in the Army.
Johnson’s graphic novel, with the art of D. C.-based comic book artist Matthew Dow Smith, was published as a four-book series in 2015 and was released as compendium in January 2017.
It’s set in the near future, when the world’s adoption rates boom and human trafficking is the norm as children become a valuable commodity. Brothers Jackie and Julian, who operate a South American adoption agency, get mixed up with criminal organizations who kidnap children to sell them to desperate Americans.
“When the brothers suddenly find themselves with their backs against the wall, Jackie makes a grave mistake that sends them spiraling into a dark mystery at the root of their world’s status quo; a mystery much darker than they might be able to bear,” a Netflix synopsis said.
The world of the story is a dystopia, but “not like a ‘Mad-Max’ type dystopia,” Johnson said.
