The Next George R.R. Martin Adaptation Is Not What You’re Expecting

While George R.R. Martin fans eagerly await HBO’s latest Westeros adventure, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms—coming aboriginal successful 2025!—and the eventual instrumentality of pirate favorite House of the Dragon, different Martin task has abruptly entered the chat. And no, it’s not The Winds of Winter. It’s In the Lost Lands, an enactment phantasy movie from Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil) starring Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, Dune).

Check retired the trailer here, and people “two-headed snake flying successful your face” disconnected your bingo paper for the day.

It looks similar it could beryllium ripped close retired of video game, but it’s so adapted from “In the Lost Lands,” a abbreviated communicative by the Game of Thrones creator that appeared successful the 1982 phantasy anthology Amazons II, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Here’s the authoritative logline for the movie: “Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and based connected George R.R. Martin’s abbreviated story, a queen sends the almighty and feared sorceress Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands successful hunt of a magical power, wherever the sorceress and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Dave Bautista), indispensable outwit and outfight antheral and demon.”

Martin, who sometimes uses his idiosyncratic blog arsenic a spot to aerial opinions astir adaptations of his work, had nary commentary to stock contiguous different than some thumbs-up clip art accompanying the poster and trailer, and a little encouragement (“Seek the power. Free the people”) to spell spot the movie erstwhile it opens March 7.

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