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Paul W.S. Anderson on Getting Lost in George R.R. Martin’s World
The director talks his new film In the Lost Lands, skipping the Resident Evil reboot, and his harshest critics.
The project came to him via his wife and longtime collaborator, Milla Jovovich, who was taken with the idea of playing the story’s key protagonist, a powerful and persecuted witch named Gray Alys condemned to grant any wish that’s asked of her. The film, based on a Martin short story (first published in the 1982 anthology Amazons II, later republished in Dreamsongs Volume I), takes place in a postapocalyptic wasteland where the medieval collides with the modern and the mythical: There are retro crusader knights with sunglasses and sniper rifles; giant skeleton demons; abandoned reactors and factories repurposed into places of worship; rivers filled with skulls and fields spurting fire. A year before we even started building these landscapes, I was exchanging a wide array of images from graphic novels and paintings with visual-effects supervisor Dennis Berardi and his team.
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