The world is slowly picking up pace after the events of the Red Wedding year 2020. The entertainment industry is fast on its wheels to make the most of the post-lockdown time. A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R.R. Martin is pretty busy these days as well. After the grand success of Game of Thrones, Martin is in demand pretty much everywhere, from movies to series to making video games. He recently posted on his blog Not A Blog about his ongoing ventures.
Martin wrote, “The story about the adaptation of IN THE LOST LANDS broke a week or so back. And now, hard on the heels of that, comes the announcement about another story of mine being developed as a movie.”
“‘Sandkings’ was the story I was best known for, before A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE came along. Originally published in OMNI, it went on to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards (my only triple crown) and has been anthologized and reprinted more times than I can count. It was filmed once before as well, as the two-hour premiere episode of the revived OUTER LIMITS. Melinda Snodgrass did the adaptation; Beau Bridges starred, with his father and his son in supporting roles.”
He continued, “Now the story is in development once again… this time as a feature film rather than a television episode. Gore Verbinski will helm the project. Dennis Kelly is writing the script, which promises to be a closer adaptation than the OUTER LIMITS version. The new version will have a much bigger budget as well; the OUTER LIMITS simply did not have the money to do all the things that they wanted to do.”
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