The next adaptation of George RR Martin is not what you expect

As George RR Martin fans eagerly await HBO’s latest Westeros adventure, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms-coming later in 2025! – and the eventual return of preferred hacker House of the DragonAnother Martin project immediately entered the chat. And no, it isn’t The winter winds. Is it In the lost landsa fantasy action film by Paul WS Anderson (Resident Evil) with Milla Jovovich (Resident Evil) and Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy, dune).

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

It looks like it could be ripped right out of the video game, but it’s actually adapted from “In the Lost Lands,” a short story about the Game of Thrones creator who appeared in the 1982 fantasy anthology Amazons IIedited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

Here’s the film’s official logline: “Directed by Paul WS Anderson and based on the short story by George RR Martin, a queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) into the ghostly wasteland of the Lost Lands in search of of a magical power, where the witch and her guide, the vagabond Boyce (Dave Bautista), must surpass and defeat the man and the demon.

Martin, who sometimes uses his personal blog as a place to vent opinions on the adaptation of their workhad no comment to share today other than some thumbs up clip art it accompanies the poster and trailer, and a brief encouragement (“Seek the power. Free the people”) to go see the film when it opens on March 7.

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