With George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones gearing up for a fifth season on HBO and proving to be a hit on IMAX, the wheels are turning to bring other Martin adaptations to the big screen. Resident Evil's Milla Jojovich is nearing a deal to star in an adaptation of Martin's "In the Lost Lands", based on a series of short stories.
Justin Chatwin (Shameless) will co-star with Constantin Werner set to write the screenplay and direct the female-centric film. Here's the synopsis:
"In one thread, the desperate queen of a city built into a towering mountain hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich) to travel into the ghostly wasteland called the Lost Lands, to obtain the gift of shape shifting into a werewolf, but she doesn’t realize that the fulfillment of her wish will come at a terrible price.
Meanwhile, warrior girl Sharra must fight a dragon that serves as the gatekeeper of seven worlds to reunite with her lost lover Kaydar. During this quest she meets the mysterious lord of a deserted castle, Laren Dorr, who seduces her so completely that she forgets her quest and stays with him, unaware that he is the real gatekeeper.
And in the futuristic tale Bitterblooms, a young barbarian girl gets spellbound by a lonely witch in a spacecraft, who shows her beauty and love, which turns out to be a net of lies and deceit."
Filming is set to begin late this year. Martin is also said to be working on an adaptation of his vampire novel, Fever Dream, alongside David Slade. [THR]
