10 Upcoming Horror Movies That Are Already Doomed

10. In The Lost Lands

While we continue to await the gratuitously long-awaited The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring, other George R.R. Martin projects continue apace. One is the movie adaptation of his fantasy story In the Lost Lands, which centres on a queen desperate to develop the power of shape-shifting, who hires a dark sorceress to make it so; nemesis ensues.

While having Dave Bautista on board is a boon to the production, there are a couple of major drawbacks that spell anything up but happy endings for this dark fairy tale. The foremost is that Paul W.S. Anderson is directing, bringing wife Milla Jovovich along for the ride. It takes a deft hand to manage Martin's material which, as Game of Thrones readers know, is habitually sprawling, and Anderson is definitely not the man to do it.

Film for film, there are few other directors who have so consistently made diabolical movies, and Anderson's name has always been synonymous with a lack of quality and clarity. Despite the frequency of their collaborations, he's also not very good at directing Jovovich, who is a fine actor when outside his sphere of influence. But that's not where the pitfalls end, because Anderson's bringing it to fruition in an all-digital environment, ala Attack of the Clones, or Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow...