Paul W.S. Anderson has made a lot of big movies, including the hugely successful Resident Evil franchise. But he’s never done anything that will attract quite the rabid fanbase as his next film, In the Lost Lands, as it’s based on a short story by Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, and stars Anderson’s wife and muse Milla Jojovich along with Dave Bautista.
Directed by Anderson who co-wrote the screenplay with Constantin Werner, In the Lost Lands centers on a sorceress who teams with a drifter to enter a deadly forest and claim a magical power by order of the Queen. There they must battle man and demons alike to survive.
Werner optioned the rights to three of Martin’s short stories, including The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr and Bitterblooms, with the plan of combining them into a single feature film epic. That version, which also had Justin Chatwin aboard rather than Bautista, never came together.
Martin has liked what he’s seen out of Anderson, too, saying in his blog that his film is “dark and twisted and atmospheric, and a lot of fun.”
Vertical releases In the Lost Lands in theaters on March 7th.
SYNOPSIS: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and based on George R.R. Martin’s short story, a queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Dave Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon.
