The Next George RR Martin Adaptation Is Not What You Expect

As George RR Martin fans eagerly await HBO’s latest Westeros adventure, Knight of the Seven Kingdoms— coming in 2025!— and will eventually be returned pirate favorite Dragon Houseanother Martin project suddenly entered the conversation. And no, it’s not The Winds of Winter. this In Lost LandsAn action fantasy film from Paul WS Anderson (Resident Evil) Starring Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Dune).

Check out the trailer here and mark “two-headed snake flying in your face” off your bingo card for the day.

It looks like it could be ripped straight from a video game, but it’s really adapted from a short story called In the Lost Lands. Game of Thrones Creator appearing in the 1982 fantasy anthology Amazons IIEdited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Here’s the official logline for the film: “Based on the short story by directors Paul WS Anderson and George RR Martin, the queen sends the powerful and fearsome sorceress Gray Alice (Milla Jovovich) on a magical quest into the nightmarish wilderness of the Lost Lands. a force with which the wizard and his guide, the drifting Boyce (Dave Bautista), must capture and battle the man. and the devil.”

Martin, who sometimes uses his personal blog as an outlet ideas about the adaptation of his worksHe had no other comments to share today clip art giving some thumbs up film accompanying the poster and trailer, and a short promotion to see the film when it opens on March 7 (“Seek the Power. Free the People”).

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