Game Of Thrones author George R.R. Martin’s 1979 short story Sandkings is being made into a Netflix movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski is teaming up with original Utopia creator Dennis Kelly on the project.
Verbinski told Collider: “One of the screenplays [I’m working on] is based on a George R.R. Martin short story called Sandkings, which is this brilliant little twisted short story that I love. And I’m working with a great writer, Dennis Kelly, who wrote the original [Utopia]… The British original series is brilliant. And Dennis is doing the adaptation, so I’m kind of excited about that.”
The plot follows a wealthy playboy named Simon Kress who collects dangerous, exotic animals. Kress stumbles across a mysterious establishment called Wo & Shade, where he purchases a terrarium filled with four colonies of creatures called sandkings, which grow to fill whatever environment they are kept in.
