Remember back in February 2021 when we reported that Paul W.S. Anderson was directing an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s short story, “In the Lost Lands”? I didn’t either, but it seems we have proof that the production actually happened, and that it stars Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista.
Today, Vertical released a first look image from the film. In it, we see a blurry Jovovich unleashing what looks like some cosmic power with a blurry Bautista standing dumbfounded behind her. Jovovich’s powers make sense given she’s playing Gray Alys, a sorceress who, hired by a queen, heads into the so-called lost lands with Bautista as her guide.
The script for the adaptation comes from Anderson and Constantin Werner. According to a LiveJournal post Martin made way back in 2015, Werner bought the rights to three of Martin’s stories—1982’s “In the Lost Lands”, 1976’s “The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr”, and 1977’s “Bitterblooms”—and integrated them into one screenplay with the “Lost Lands” title. How much of those other stories made it into this film, however, is unclear, much like this first look image.
Beyond being dark and blurry, the photo doesn’t tell us much about what the film will be like, though we do get a glimpse of Jovovich’s makeup as the magic-wielding sorceress. One thing we do know, however, is that we’ll be able to see the film in all its glory when In the Lost Lands premieres in theaters on February 28, 2025.
