Only Nick Offerman rings a bell for me.
Recently there were some apparent set photo leaks, that would set the movie on the same timeline as the game.
thoughts?
If I don’t walk away from the movie more confused than I went into it, it failed to capture the story of Elden Ring.
Once I found a player message that just said " Seek Elden ring, or something". It perfectly summarises my feelings towards that game.
DS2 was more concise.
“Bearer seek seek lest.”
DS2 at least told you up front that you’d do all this stuff and not know why. ER made you get into the lore and learn about the law of convergence and regression and even then that’s mostly a guess
DS2 has probably the weirdest story of the bunch. You start off with the goal of trying to break the undead curse and it ends with killing an evil witch that fucked up an entire kingdom for no particular reason at all. Like, did we just abandon our original quest upon seeing Vendrick all depressed and shit?
“Fuck the curse, this poor man needs to get revenge on his wife.”
(I’m forgetting a ton of shit told to you by Aldia probably)
Oh for sure, they’re both terrible about playing it coy with the storyline. I get what they’re going for, but it’s a risky move that makes it hard to engage with the storyline. I’d wager most people that played the games have no idea what the plot was.
Wait, you’re telling this dude has THREE fingers and disagrees with you two fingered fucks?
Where’s Uncle Warbucks? He sounds like a hoot! Old even fingered having mfer with yo broke ass.
I’m still waiting for the second DLC where they introduce The Thumb.
Seeing that statue of Marika has me more interested than anything else.
I’m still not confident that it won’t be a disaster, but now it feels more “real” to me. It’s still hard to believe they’re working on this.
I will always trust Garland to put the effort in when setting the scene but it is excellent to see lots of real life props and costumes
Without looking up any further information, this is a hoax, right? Chat, is this real?
Several major publications are running the story today, seems legit to me fam.
Edit: Should’ve include some sources so here ya go.
https://www.ign.com/articles/elden-ring-movie-release-date-and-full-cast-announced
https://variety.com/2026/film/global/elden-ring-alex-garland-a24-full-cast-release-date-1236725875/
Gotta love the accompaning image choice in this one XD
And I hope none of the actors played the game. But I hope at least half the writers did.
Garland has apparently played up to NG7 If I remember correctly.
I searched for you. Seems legit or a very big hoax z sources in multiple languages at least.
I love the “Skyfall, Paddington” combo which is basically what Eldenring conveys in its core… I guess?
Ben Whishaw is a really good actor, but he’s very typecast. I wonder if he’ll break the mold here.
Here is the post on the official Bandai Namco website.
Mhmm, I’m honestly not that interested in all these media adaptations. I like the original pieces of art and I don’t know if I will like a work based on it in an entirely different medium. For example, I never read the Bloodborne Comic, despite adoring the game.
But a big budget movie adaptation of one of my favorite games ever? I have some concerns… And will probably not go watch it in a cinema. But I will definitely watch it eventually.
I haven’t watched a Alex Garland movie yet. But I have Annihilation on my hard drive. Wait I have watched Dredd! Which was decent, I guess?
I have seen a couple of these actors before:
- Cailee Spaeny, as the main character in Alien Romulus. She was decent, no Sigourney Weaver, but decent acting.
- Ben Whishaw, as Q in Skyfall and the gay artist in Cloud Atlas. He was very good in Cloud Atlas.
- Nick Offerman, I have watched a couple of Parks and Rec’s clips?
- Peter Serafinowicz, I have seen him in a couple of minor roles like in Guardians of the Galaxy. He has voice acted in a Fromsoft game before! He was Mild-Mannered Pate, the Patches equivalent, in Dark Souls 2.
- Jonathan Pryce, as the Governor in Pirates of the Caribbean. He was quite good?
Edit: Here is the Wikipedia page of the movie.
A24 gives me hope. Alex Garland has played the game (thank Marika!). “Only” $100 Million as budget? I imagined more, but it is a A24 movie. Seems a bit low these days for an epic fantasy movie. On the other hand Everything Everywhere All at Once cost only $14–25 million and that was excellent in both set design and effects.
Yup…At the end of the day I think we are not the target crowd for this; it’s primarily an avenue to further exploit the ip with a non gamer (or non soulslike gamer) audience. The fact that GRRM is connected to it made it prime candidate for an adaptation as that is an excellent marketing hook.
It makes me curious, tho, and It could be something interesting, but… That feels highly unlikely.
Good input on the cast, thanks! In my case I’ve seen some of Garlands directorial work. (Ex machina, 28/years later). Which, are ok,? I’mot crazy about them. I do like 28 days later, which he wrote. The fact that he has played the game is the best thing about all of this.
One detail that just occurred to me, that I haven’t seen much discussion around, is the fact that the statue of Marika shown in one of these set photos is still found in a ruined church.
I would hazard to guess in that case that the events of this movie are all still post-shattering, or close enough to it, and not the pre-shattering family story of Marika and Radagon that had been speculated.
I’ll be surprised if we get anything resembling a 1:1 adaptation of the game, nor do I even think I’d want one, but whatever they’re going for appears to be edging towards the setting we saw in the game and not that of the background worldbuilding story.
I think the ruined church almost confirms it being set post shattering . If Vyke is the protagonist it would be ok in my book… But If not ooooff, it’s probably be the least interesting approach to an adaptation.
And who knows, it could be that Alex Garland is looking to put together a story that is only a loose adaptation of the original.
Another movie of his, Annihilation, was only a loose adaptation of the novel it is based on, but it still managed to be a great interpretation of the story and setting.
The only difference here, though, is that I never read Annihilation, but I have thoroughly played Elden Ring, so I wonder how much one’s expectations end up coloring their interpretation. I love Annihilation the film, but I am not sure if someone who had read the books and was hoping to see all of their favorite moments on the big screen felt the same.
We’ll just have to see how it all shakes out, I guess. Trying to keep an open mind, but can’t help but be apprehensive about it.
Edit: If it is a Vyke story, Annihilation at least gives me some hope that Garland would be able to pull off the frenzied flame elements really well.
I’ve read and watched Annihilation and loved both. The film is very different on the details, but it does very effectively convey the same broader-scale ideas. I think it does a great job of adapting a story in a manner that is spiritually faithful if not literally faithful. Garland describes it as “a dream of the book”, and I think that works well
Perhaps, a loose adaptation could also be interesting if it doesn’t contradict or mess with the lore too much, although i was hoping that the movie adapted parts of the story that are in the past, or just implied… I crave more pre shattering stuff, etc. But the good thing is an adaptation can never detract from the game. If it’s not good we can just pretend it doesn’t exist. XD
Different Kit, I’m afraid, I don’t see Harington attached to this project… this is the guy: Kit Connor
maybe with some good characterization?
Also: redhead + aaaabs, maybe Radagon in flashbacks and stuff? Idk
Oh my god you’re right, I’m an idiot
From is gonna be the next MCU
Oh no…. Please no. Just 🤮
I’m a huge FromSoft fan. I’ve watched far too many lore videos. I don’t really want this shit. Why is this being made? Does anyone actually think a movie is going to be a better medium than a game for telling this story? I’m, at best, morbidly curious. I hope it’s great, but I’m pretty confident, in the very best case, it’s worse than the game.
From has always said they wanna spin ER out into multiple IPs. Shouldn’t change whether you want this or not, but I think the company is looking to expand. It might be cool to have a company manage successful movie production studios and major video games, but yeah it seems like some changes are coming.
I’m def excited for the Bloodborne and Sekiro animated films. Live action Elden Ring could be pretty good, we will have to see. But I def don’t blame you, like make more games please, ive already played through all the other ones 10 times each
I said it in another coment, but the movie is not for us. It’s to bring the story to the general public, the best way to experience ER will always be the game :) if it ends up being alright, hopefully it will bring more folks to the original.
Cailee was pretty killer in civil war.
Side note: I love how they listed the former works like “what do you think the nerds will know?” While they’re all blasting fat rails.
Side note: I love how they listed the former works like “what do you think the nerds will know?” While they’re all blasting fat rails.
Hahahah absolutely. actually, from everything listed I have only seen Nick Offerman in the last of us so it kinda worked XD I’m not even that much of a nerd, but I’m somewhat out of touch with recent popular media.
I do know of parks and rec, but it was not my thing while it aired.
Why do they already have a release date? They havent finished filming
I believe in movie production the timelines get set way in advance, also it’s a way to promote and generate anticipation.
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