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Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘In the Lost Lands’ Brings Together Dave Bautista and Milla Jovovich For a Battle of Good vs. Evil
Paul W.S. Anderson found his voice with Monster Hunter, a truly fun video game adaptation that Sony released in the midst of the pandemic. Next up for the Event Horizon and Resident Evil filmmaker is a big screen adaptation of “Game of Thrones” creator George R.R. Martin‘s short story In the Lost Lands.
The film will reteam Anderson with the great Milla Jovovich, who starred in the entire Resident Evil series, as well as last year’s Monster Hunter, alongside wrestler-turned-action star Dave Bautista (Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy, Army of the Dead), reports Deadline.
“The movie will follow a queen, desperate to obtain the gift of shape shifting, who makes a daring play: she hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich), a woman as feared as she is powerful. Sent to the ghostly wilderness of the ‘Lost Lands’, Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon in a fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.”
Anderson has written the script. Producers are Jeremy Bolt (Resident Evil), Anderson, Jovovich, Bautista and Jonathan Meisner, through their production company Dream Bros Entertainment, and Constantin Werner.
FilmNation is launching the project at next week’s virtual EFM.
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Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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