Yahoo Lifestyle “Game of Thrones” author's apocalyptic short story comes to life in thrilling “In the Lost Lands” trailer
Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista spring into action for the March movie.
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Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista in the film 'In the Lost Lands'Another George R.R. Martin fantasy will hit screens this year. The first In the Lost Lands trailer, featuring Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista in an apocalyptic setting, brings to life the Game of Thrones author's short story of the same name.
Jovovich re-teams with her director husband, Paul W.S. Anderson, on the movie, which is set to premiere this March 7. The Resident Evil headliner plays Gray Alys, a powerful and feared sorceress. Many years in the distant future, after a devastating war reshaped the entire globe, a queen sends Gray into the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands, where the laws of nature don't apply.
She's on the hunt for a magical power to free her people from oppression, but to claim it, she'll need a guide. Boyce (Bautista), a drifter, is that guide capable of navigating the Lost Lands.
"In the Lost Lands" is one of Martin's earliest fantasy stories, first published in 1982 as part of the Amazons II anthology. In a November blog entry, Martin described the movie as "dark and twisted and atmospheric, and a lot of fun."
"A long time ago, I had hoped to write a series of stories about Gray Alys and those bold enough to buy from her...but life and other stories intervened, and somehow I never got around to writing that second tale," Martin wrote at the time. "But who knows? If the film does well enough, maybe I will finally write that sequel. In my copious spare time."
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The short story is one of three from Martin that filmmaker Constantin Werner optioned years ago, including "The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr" and "Bitterblooms." Werner wrote the screenplay for the In the Lost Lands movie with Anderson.
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Separately, this year will also see HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms hit the small screen as an adaptation of Martin's Dunk and Egg short stories that are set in the world of Game of Thrones.
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