Paul WS Anderson and Milla Jovovich, the star duo of the films Resident Evilis back with the post-apocalyptic western In the Lost Lands. The first trailer will serve as a warning.
There are those who are waiting for the new Christopher Nolan, the new Kathryn Bigelow, the new Jordan Peele, or the new David Robert Mitchell. But there are some who wait Also the new Paul WS Anderson, to find out what the director of Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Alien vs. Predator, The Three Musketeers et Pompeii will dare again.
In this case, it is rather the boss of the saga Resident Evil (he directed four of the six films, but actually wrote, produced and oversaw everything) who is back. After the sacrificed exit of the fun Monster Hunter in 2021, landed directly on VOD in France because of the pandemic, the filmmaker reunites with his Milla Jovovich for a new adventure-action-fantasy-monsters filmwhere she will be accompanied by Dave Bautista.
Adapted from a short story by George RR Martin (Game of Thrones), In the Lost Lands therefore reveals the extent of the fantastic damage in a awesome first catch-all trailer.
RESIDENT WITCH : APOCALYPSE
A post-apocalyptic world ravaged by a distant war, a powerful witch, a lone warrior, a treasure hunt, guns and large cutting weapons, monsters, slow motion: if anyone had dared to imagine le best of Paul W.S. Andersonthat probably would have given this trailer.
In the Lost Lands takes place in a world inhabited by magic and various creatures. In search of a mysterious treasure, the power witch Gray Alys (Milla Jovovich) must venture into the lost lands, a wild and dangerous territory. She goes with a mysterious hunter (Dave Bautista), who will guide her and help her face monsters and enemies along the way.
And since 2025 is definitely off to a good start, an absolutely magnificent first poster was also revealed. Rebel Moon and Zack Snyder better watch out.
-A POST-APOCALYPTIC WESTERN
The name of George RR Martin, the famous author of Game of Thronesis displayed in bulk in the trailer because it all started with one of his short stories. Published in 1982 in the collection Amazons II, In the lost lands was initially to be adapted by Constantin Werner, who had gotten his hands on other short stories by the writer in 2015. He intended to draw from them three films, with Milla Jovovich.
The project came to nothing, but the actress stuck with it and brought back Paul WS Anderson. Since she met the director on the first Resident Evilhe has become his best traveling companion, knowing that everything is quickly worse without him (the crap Future World directed by James Franco, the disaster Hellboy version 2019, or the recent turnip Breathe).
In 2022, the director described his next film like a western :
“I have worked almost exclusively on horror and science fiction films. But like all directors in the world, I want to make a western. No studio wants to do them, unfortunately, because they’re not commercial anymore. I’m about to make a film called In the Lost Lands, based on a story by George RR Martin. Basically, it’s really a western, there is all the iconography that one could associate with the western. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, so on the surface it’s not a western. But deep down, it’s absolutely a western. »
In the Lost Lands will arrive March 7, 2025 in the United States. And in France? Nothing announced, but the distributor Metropolitan would be logical given that it managed the releases of all Resident Evil. The saga with Milla Jovovich had nevertheless lost quite a few feathers along the way, between the first film released in 2001 (1.1 million admissions) and the Final chapter in 2016 (around 322,000 entries), despite the surge inAfterlife in 2010 (more than 910,000 entries). A direct VOD release is therefore not impossible.
In any case, be sure that we will follow the matter closely, to talk about it again as soon as possible. Signed: the president of the Paul WS Anderson fan club at Ecran Large.
