Tarnished, put down your controller and grab your popcorn, because the Elden Ring movie is actually happening. According to a comprehensive rundown by Kotaku, the film is being directed by Alex Garland - the guy behind Ex Machina and 28 Days Later - so at least we know it won't be another Uwe Boll situation.
The production is being backed by A24, which is basically the Miyazaki of film studios at this point, so the prestige factor is through the roof. If anything was going to give us a game-to-film adaptation that doesn't make us want to Alt+F4 our own brains, this combo is probably it.
What the set photos are telling us
Leaked set pictures have been making the rounds, and Kotaku has compiled them alongside everything else known about the project so far. The images suggest some serious world-building is in progress, with visual nods to the game's gothic, mythological aesthetic that should make lore nerds very happy indeed.
Details on the cast are still thin on the ground, but reports indicate the story will centre around Queen Marika - which honestly makes a ton of sense given she is the lore backbone of the entire game. Exploring her story means the film can carve its own path without needing to awkwardly shoehorn in a silent protagonist wandering around getting obliterated by a giant crab.
Should we actually be hyped?
Look, the video game movie curse has been getting thoroughly speedrun-destroyed lately - The Last of Us, the Sonic films, the Mario movie all landed with varying degrees of success. An Elden Ring film backed by A24 with a director of Garland's calibre feels like it has the right build for a critical hit rather than a softcore cutscene nobody asked for.
That said, Elden Ring's lore is famously delivered in item descriptions and cryptic NPC mumbling, so adapting it into a coherent narrative is going to be the real final boss. We'll be watching this one closer than a first-time player watches Margit's attack patterns. Head over to Kotaku for the full breakdown of every detail revealed so far.
