Paul W.S. Anderson, Milla Jovovich adapt fantasy story by George R.R. Martin
By Dan Selcke
Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich, who made six Resident Evil movies together, are adapting George R.R. Martin’s short story In the Lost Lands. And Dave Bautista was also there.
We’re hearing a lot about new George R.R. Martin projects lately. There’s House of the Dragon, of course, HBO’s follow-up to Game of Thrones. He’s also producing an adaptation of Roger Zelazny’s fantasy novel Roadmarks and teaming with Tessa Thompson to adapt Nnedi Okorafor’s post-apocalyptic novel Who Fears Death, both for HBO.
And then there are movies being made from his work that he has nothing to do with. For instance, Deadline reports that Paul W.S. Anderson will write and direct an adaptation of Martin’s 1982 short story In the Lost Lands, about a queen who hires a sorceress to secure for herself the power of shape-shifting. The sorceress, Gray Alys, must venture into the wild Lost Lands, along with a guide, the drifter Boyce. And then things get crazy.
Anderson is best known for his video game adaptations, from 1995’s Mortal Kombat through the six Resident Evil movies he made with his wife Milla Jovovich up to last year’s Monster Hunter movie. Jovovich will work with Anderson again on In the Lost Lands, where she’ll play Alys. Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista will play Boyce.
So far as I know, Martin himself has nothing to do with this adaptation, it’s just his work being used as the basis for a movie. Still, it’s notable how often Hollywood has turned to his back catalog since Game of Thrones became a huge hit; the SyFy show Nightflyers also comes to mind. And Martin has a lot more work out there produced over the years.
Of course, of the book all his fans are waiting for now, we’re still having to be patient:
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