Paul W.S. Anderson Directing ‘The Warded Man’ Next

Director Paul W.S. Anderson will be reteaming with producing partner Jeremy Bolt, as the two have picked up the rights to ‘The Warded Man.’   The two previously worked together on 2002’s ‘Resident Evil’ feature film adaptation.   Anderson will serve as director on ‘The Warded Man,’ possibly jumping on board this project as soon as filming on ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife.’ is finished.

‘The Warded Man’ is set in a future where the world has resorted back to a feudal state and nightly attacks by demons plague the population.   Three young people emerge as warriors against these attacks, particularly the title character who has spells written all over his body.

Says Anderson:

It was an occasion where it paid to be British.   It launched in the U.K. six months earlier than in the U.S., and we got wind of it when it was in galley form before the U.K. release. We think it has the potential to be a new ‘Lord of the Rings’-style epic, and the book has all this great imagery.

Bolt had this to offer:

We put our own money to buy it. We were reading all these great reviews, and we thought someone was going to buy it pretty fast.

‘The Warded Man’ is the first of a project trilogy of books by Peter V. Brett, a former ad man who wrote the novel on his Blackberry during commutes to work.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter