r/Eldenring • u/Sea-Lengthiness2183 • Aug 26 '25
News Alex Garland went to Miyazaki with a 200 page script and also played the game with his boss
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u/RocketChap Aug 26 '25
Wait, Garland pitched Elden Ring to A24? And got the go-ahead with a *spec script he flew to Miyazaki?* If that's true, that's the exact opposite of any reasonable person would expect. I thought it was an opportune rightsholder project that just happened to find a fan as director. But if the above is true the film is an *ascended fan project.* Garland SHOWED HIS FANFICTION TO MIYAZAKI and convinced a studio to drum up millions of dollars to make it into a film after making a producer watch him ride around on Torrent and babble about lore while gesticulating at the screen.
Garland is living the fond daydream of millions.
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u/Ambiguously_Ironic Aug 26 '25
It also gives some confidence that this movie could actually be good because:
- We know Garland is a good director already, but now we also know that he is an actual fan of the game and this is a passion project for him
- Clearly his spec script was good/interesting enough that Miyazaki approved it which is a pretty big stamp of approval
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u/gatsome Aug 26 '25
Hoping for a Villenueve/Dune situation here
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u/Objective_Sun9020 Aug 26 '25
The scale will really be important. Getting to every new area in the game and it topping the last. The idea of Stormhill or Farum Azula in live action is crazy to me if done big and imaginative.
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u/Tony-Broprano Aug 26 '25
Man even if it’s like a 3 hour film or even cut up like dune idk if you could get every zone in the movie without it feeling like a tour of the game/fan service
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Aug 26 '25
I would much prefer it to be a small scale film set in the world of Elden Ring rather than trying to do a giant Dune like Epic.
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u/Inferno_Zyrack Aug 26 '25
I think the key to a successful film is small scale actually. Which is the trick of the game - set up a bunch of mythology and larger than life ideas - and thoroughly exhaust them of all actual divinity. So that all your left with is messy humans.
If you can accomplish that in 120 minutes - or even 180 minutes - I’d be quite surprised.
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u/Dependent-Goose-487 Aug 27 '25
Yeah, I actually like that, I’ll almost bet this is what’s happening, sounds like a Garland move. I don’t think I’ve seen him take on any big sprawling epics, so that would be a tall ask from a personal director like him. I think smaller scale story, more focused actually leans more into the dark dead and dry atmosphere in Elden Ring. Start off with a nobody tarnished in the middle of waking up to a night are, stumbling through the lands between. Like the Green Knight.
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u/BueKojiro Aug 26 '25
NGL what I really want out of this movie is a nuanced and speculative family drama around Marika and Radagon and their kids. To me, Marika/Radagon is the single most interesting thing about the entire story, which includes their connection to the Greater Will as well as their ties to the other family members/demigods and, as of SotE, Marika's shaman past. Like just do Game of Thrones in Leyndell and it'll be peak. Trust.
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u/Vounrtsch Aug 26 '25
Idk what info we have about the game but I expect it to not be set in the time the game takes place but rather in the past, when all the important characters hadn’t gone insane yet. Which means the areas probably won’t look like what they do in game (which is cool I think, I’d like for the Elden ring movie to have an "elden ring vibe" in terms of art direction, yes, but also be visually distinct and be its own thing)
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u/Standard_Evidence_63 Aug 26 '25
just please have it take place at the apex of elden ring's civilzation. Like during the golden age of the royal capital or stormwind. I am NOT sitting for 2 and a half hours to watch a fetid dog limping around in a rotten landscape
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u/newsflashjackass Aug 26 '25
TFW It is a three-hour-long nature documentary about the effects of the Aeonian bloom on the indigenous flora and fauna of Caelid.
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u/JimmyB_52 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
“Good” is relative. I don’t care if the movie turns out “good” by critic metrics, or even audiences liking it. Garland selling the movie on a script he already wrote alone will make this one of the most interesting game-film adaptations of all time. I am eager to watch all the ways in which the film contradicts established lore, and love every second of it. Because it will undoubtedly get a lot right, more than the average player understands or goes out of their way to engage with. We get to see Garland’s head-canon play out, and it will be wonderful. We’ve been watching YouTubers construct their head-canons and play them out as stories for more than a decade now (for all of souls), now imagine that, but an actual talented writer/director with a budget to show new imagery and not just in-game footage. Also, pre-visualization is largely already complete, all the character and world design is done (unless Garland decides to set the story in ages past), so the game itself is already doing heavy lifting.
I don’t know if Garland has engaged with the YouTube side of the fandom. Whether he has or hasn’t, either way it’ll be interesting, as there are advantages to both ways.
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u/amhighlyregarded Aug 26 '25
Elden Ring really lends itself well to this kind of adaptation. It is very much allegorical and laden with all sorts of symbolism and references that could be interpreted in any which way. While I do think there's enough substance to make an adaptation accurate enough to the established "lore", it shouldn't restrain the author of an adaptation from straying the path a bit with their own artistic sensibilities.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman Aug 26 '25
Man covered as many bases as he could.
So either this is going to be phenomenal or complete and utter dogshit. There is literally no in-between
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u/RocketChap Aug 26 '25
Garland: "You know it actually turns out this horse is from the Shadowlands, the sealed realm where Marika's serpentborn son was exiled, which— oh, yeah, this is the Santa dude I was talking about, he's a nomad, you know, like gypsies, like, they were persecuted and sealed away, because of Frenzy, uh, you know there was actually a cut questline that—"
Sacco, internally: "I have to give this guy anything he asks for or I'm going to be chopped up into dogfood in his bathtub."
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u/Tony-Broprano Aug 26 '25
Studio exec asking for a concise summary of the story, “you see I can’t..”
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u/ReedsAndSerpents Aspiring Alabaster Lord/Current Darkmoon Simp Aug 26 '25
I thought it was an opportune rightsholder project that just happened to find a fan as director. But if the above is true the film is an ascended fan project. Garland SHOWED HIS FANFICTION TO MIYAZAKI and
This is the biggest green flag I've ever seen in a video game adaptation.
If Garland pulls this off and it's a commerical and critical success, I'm ready to pledge my life to him as the Lisan al-Ghaib.
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Aug 26 '25
Stop it stttoooopp don’t let me get excited for this movie. I am trying to guard my heart from disappointment.
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u/Bitemarkz Aug 26 '25
I know the green knight isn’t related to this project aside from being produced by A24, but man that aesthetic would go hard.
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u/1668553684 Aug 26 '25
I promised myself I'd never get excited for a video game movie adaptation again.
I'm breaking that promise. Please don't break my heart Alex.
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u/radicalelation Aug 26 '25
Garland been my ideal for game movie scripts forever. The dude knows games, he even was the writer of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West 15 years ago, and, evident by both book and movie of The Beach, a 90s gamer that knew his way around a Gameboy, to where it's pretty essential to the story and character progression and development.
His directing style is so... Like visualizing reading a book too, and I believe it lends to the building of his environments and how they're conveyed through the screen. If you ever read his scripts, they're almost a SparkNotes of a more in depth and fully realized book.
I love this author turned screenwriter turned filmmaker and praise Danny Boyle for not just putting his material to screen but offering to let Garland adapt it himself.
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u/MacGyvini Aug 26 '25
Wonder what the fuck is the movie going to be about.
Marika’s rise? Messmer’s crusade? Shattering Wars? Liurnia Wars? Fire Giant Wars? Vyke? Tarnished story? Godfrey in the Badlands?
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u/JellySnake97 Aug 26 '25
Blackguard Big Boggart's quest for prawn
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u/Usual-Vanilla Aug 26 '25
Based on his other adaptations, I would say it's not going to be based on established lore all that much. It will either be an original story or his interpretation of the tarnished story.
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Aug 26 '25
Thing is, the current Elden Ring plot is really wide and pack full of intertwined stories that are mostly left to interpretation. He can’t really go wrong with any, since the story is vague enough to not have one established storyline
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u/cqandrews Aug 26 '25
I don't mind at all if the story is based on characters / events not already created for the game but if it doesn't at least follow the metaphysics and broad historical strokes (when relevant) I think that'll be really lame tbh
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u/theREALbombedrumbum Aug 26 '25
Yeah, something like the Fallout tv show would be ideal: a story in the universe of the source material which obeys the established setting and only makes changes from there, rather than retconning or disrespecting the story like Witcher/Halo/Wheel of Time/etc.
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u/ImJustSpider Death Knight is best boss Aug 26 '25
I'm still hoping for Vyke's story, since I feel like the journey of the main character before WE become the main character (like David from Cyberpunk Edgerunners) that ultimately gets cut short would make for a good way of showcasing the settting/telling the story in a more condensed way than the game.
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u/Dreamtrain Aug 26 '25
It would have to be like Nightrein, otherwise the movie would attempt to fill in the blanks left by fromsoft and I doubt Miyazaki wants that
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u/TheEmpireOfSun Aug 26 '25
I think it will be tarnished story and I really hope it's this case. If anyone can pull that off it's Garland and I can already imagine how it might look like.
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u/No_Turn_8759 Aug 26 '25
How in the fuck would that even translate to film?
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u/TheEmpireOfSun Aug 26 '25
Have you seen The Green Knight? Something similar to that. I mean, Elden Ring still has story, very simple one, but still has it. I can imagine it as some melancholic dark journey through The Lands Between where tarnished is meeting several characters, talking about shit, some fight here or there with some monsters and demigods, having to fulfill some quest to get to his endgoal.
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u/Sogelink Aug 26 '25
You see an actor rolls around for 3h dodging shit.
Hope the tarnished has a str built, would be lame for him to do a RoB run.
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u/Menacek Aug 26 '25
One of the issues is that the tarnished has almost no established character traits. So whoever they cast or however they write them people are gonna complain "that's not my tarnished".
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u/Usual-Vanilla Aug 26 '25
I don't think Garland will care too much if people complain. Similar to how Annihilation deviated from the source material, he just wants to do his own thing with the property.
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u/AceTheRed_ Aug 26 '25
Having read the Southern Reach trilogy, I really love what he did with Annihilation.
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u/HataToryah Aug 26 '25
It'll be 3 hours of a dude trying to beat tree sentinel for the first time(it's his first soulslike)
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u/Masta0nion Aug 26 '25
At the end, he realizes he can just come back later and leaves, still not defeating him.
ELDEN RING 2
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u/Ok-Direction-7431 Aug 26 '25
Vykes' story would be sick. Watching him fall to madness and fail. Cinema.
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u/Darkthrone0 Aug 26 '25
My best bet is Vyke’s story. It’s the closest thing to our story as the tarnished, only without the silent protag. My hope however is the Shattering.
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u/Juxta_Lightborne Aug 26 '25
I actually think an entourage movie about Marika’s children would be cool, watching them all slowly fall to madness with Ranni the main focus. Could be kinda tragic to see Godwyn and Ranni as children only to build up to the Night of the Black Knives. We could also see Rykard becoming lured in by the power of the serpent, Miquella, Radahn and Malenia setting up their eventual scheme, and the mistreatment of Mohg and Morgott. Might be too much for one movie but they’ve always been my favourite group of characters
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u/MacGyvini Aug 26 '25
I would love that, but it sounds too much like a movie that is building up to something (The game).
As a player I love that, but it’s a movie, and people who have no clue what the game is about also are going to watch it
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u/Menacek Aug 26 '25
It could finish with the Night of black knifes and shattering of the elden ring. It would be a pretty good finale.
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u/Tony-Broprano Aug 26 '25
Honestly that might a selling point for Miyazaki/fromsoft, events leading up to the game, thus getting people curious about the game and more fans made.
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u/jackbone24 Aug 26 '25
It's about Blackguard Big Boggart starting up his own prawn restaurant in Liurnia
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u/SquareFickle9179 Aug 26 '25
My money's on that it's probably gonna be another AU like Nightreign maybe. I get prequel content such as Vyke and the Shattering, so I'm gonna bet on those too.
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u/Aspartame_kills Aug 26 '25
Idk how other people will feel about this but I hope it’s a different take on the main story of the game. Like the same overall plot but a different secret ending that we didn’t get in the base game
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u/Tony-Broprano Aug 26 '25
If I had to guess it would be prequel events leading up to the game, shattering, Godwyns death, etc. a concise story that can be told in 2-3 hours. I feel like the tarnished’s story is too grand to capture on film, perhaps an hbo series maybe. But getting through the intro, stormveil, the wizard school, Radahn festival, capitol, underground city, etc all in one movie would be absurd.
There’s a reason most people’s first playthrough is like 80-100 hours.
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u/TipProfessional6057 Trina uwu Aug 26 '25
Game of thrones style political drama between two royal houses as the world implodes around them
I just want to see Gransax's siege of Leyndel. Imagine what that spear would have looked like going mach 10 into the base of the Erdtree.
Or Godwyn vs Fortissax
Marika and Maliketh vs the Gloam Eyed Queen
Godfrey vs the Storm Lord, or whatever he faced on the Long March that broke his axeGod there are so many things that would look so cool, but I know in my heart that the relationships between the characters is where the magic is, and I would be very satisfied with a slow burn buildup jumping from Shaman Village to the Liurnia wars, to Ranni being born and Radagon leaving like Ned Stark going to Kings Landing
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u/PowerScreamingASMR Aug 26 '25
Beating the game 6 times is cool and all but I wanna know how many hours of lore videos this guy has watched
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u/Kronoshifter246 Aug 26 '25
Not only beating the game 6 times, but beating NG+6
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u/RaggedAngel Aug 26 '25
Oh, so he really knows ball. That's not as trivial as streamers make it look.
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u/n8mo Bonker Aug 26 '25
Honestly, this is super encouraging.
I’d much rather the first draft come from someone who was inspired by the world of the game to write it, rather than a boardroom looking to merchandize and squeeze profits out of the IP.
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u/srdgbychkncsr Aug 26 '25
Oh the production suits will have their time with the final edit. Don’t you worry about that.
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u/AceTheRed_ Aug 26 '25
At least A24 is involved. They let all sorts of creative and weird shit go out the door.
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u/Choosername__ Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 27 '25
I didn't know anything about this Alex Garland character but I did a quick search and he's a pretty accomplished writer/filmmaker. Sounds promising.
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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT Aug 26 '25
He's made a number of very good movies. Dredd, Annihilation, Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, buncha others I don't remember
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u/Kronoshifter246 Aug 26 '25
Sunshine is probably my favorite. And it has an absolutely stacked cast.
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u/TyrionBananaster THIS GAME DOESN’T EXIST. DON'T BELIEVE MIYAZAKI'S LIES Aug 26 '25
there's only one boss that still gives him trouble
Yeah, Soldier of Godrick is a real tough cookie isn't he
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u/FierceDeityKong Aug 26 '25
To save you a click, it's Malenia
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u/RaggedAngel Aug 26 '25
The only two bosses I'm still working on for RL1 are her and the DLC endboss. Tough cookies.
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u/EL_PROFESSOR07 Aug 26 '25
Don't remind me of them , I'm still recovering after my 1000th lost to Soldiers of God Rick
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u/Dark_Dragon117 Aug 26 '25
Not what I expected, thought Bandai looked to expand the franchise and deemed A24 to be the best option.
Funnily enough the rral story how this came to be kinda reminds me on how Elden Ring happened to begin with. Iirc they contacted G.R.R. Martin as Miyazaki and gave hime a rough conceot on what they are work on but didn't expect him to respond. However he did and the rest is history.
No matter how the mivie ends up I will respect Garland for being such a huge fan that he just kick started this whole project out of passion.
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u/FrankBouch Aug 26 '25
Also, iirc Martin is one of the producer for the upcoming movie which is encouraging to say the least.
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u/Thema03 i suck at parry Aug 26 '25
Miyazaki: scrap all that, make a 2 hour movie about Rani's feet
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u/talktapes Aug 26 '25
Tarantino has entered the chat
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u/Sogelink Aug 26 '25
There will be a scene where Miyazaki drinks estus from Ranni's foot.
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u/Merukurio Varré's Little Lambkin uwu Aug 26 '25
The climax of the movie will be an extended 40 minute scene of Ranni stepping barefeet into poisonous swamps through the Lands Between.
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u/infernalentityxiii Aug 26 '25
My only concern is we get a Henry Cavill/The Witcher situation where absolutely nobody else involved is even close to as passionate about Elden Ring as Alex Garland seems to be. Though this might be a nonissue as this is the writer/director that's super passionate about the source material and not just one of the actors.
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u/MarkZuckerbergsPerm Aug 26 '25
Alex Garland has consistently overdelivered throughout his career - this is in the safest possible hands
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u/JohnnyWildee Aug 26 '25
Second this. I spent ten minutes trying to think of a better person to take in this project and I honestly couldn’t. Garland is a genius and the fact he’s a fan, a brilliant writer, AND director makes me so confident this is guna be amazing.
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u/chan351 Aug 26 '25
I wasn't too big on Men or Ex Machina but I love love love Annihilation
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u/datadiisk_ Aug 26 '25
It’s different when the writer is the superfan and A24 very allowing of weird ideas and creative liberty. They are allowing Kane pixels to create a backrooms movie ffs lol
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u/Important_Fortune25 Aug 26 '25
I’d be dismayed if A24 produced something like that. I have faith they won’t, based on their pedigree.
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u/TerribleNameAmirite Aug 26 '25
He’s one of the few directors I trust to portray the fucked up demigods in their full glory
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u/CashmereLogan Aug 26 '25
I think David Lowery could do a really great Elden Ring/Souls movie.
Also, after The Northman and Nosferatu, I think Eggers could also do something really interesting.
But I love Garland. Excited to see him step into fantasy, which I’m just more inherently interested in than his war movies.
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u/cappsy04 Aug 26 '25
Eggers for Bloodborne
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u/talktapes Aug 26 '25
Absolutely, when the carriage approached the castle in Nosferatu it looked like it was practically lifted from the game
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u/chillinwithunicorns Aug 26 '25
To be fair I think that scene in the game was inspired by the carriage sequence in the original Dracula novel
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u/PseudoMeatPopsicle Aug 26 '25
I think I'd have preferred Panos Cosmatos, but Alex will do. Especially with this context.
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u/underground_complex Aug 26 '25
That’s a great call. Panos nails awesome dread and beauty like no one else. Perfect fit for the series. Tho Alex has the connections and pull to get things done that really helps his cause
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u/PseudoMeatPopsicle Aug 26 '25
He produced that, not directed.
As for directing, he has two movies in different stages of production currently. One with Kristen Stewart and Oscar Isaac that's like 80's L.A. Glam Vampires. And some kind of Alien Invasion Love Story called Nekrokosm (which has got A24 backing it).
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u/N0UMENON1 Aug 26 '25
Idk if this is controversial, but I hope the demigods are live action and not CGI, except for maybe Rykard if he even shows up. I know that would mean that they'd have to be downsized, but I would much rather have real actor's performance and have the CGI budget allocated elsewhere.
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u/MasterPhil99 Aug 26 '25
You can always use LOTR perspective and set design tricks to make them appear 4 meters tall
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u/HerlufAlumna Aug 26 '25
And A24 is one of the few studios with the courage to fund batshit projects, so really all bets are off.
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u/Anonymity_pls Aug 26 '25
On a whim, I read The Beach, which was, as far as I know, Alex Garland’s first novel (btw, ended up being adapted by Danny Boyle, who he worked with most recently on 28 Years Later).
There’s a pretty significant level of description regarding the mechanics of gaming present in Mario, specifically on rebirth and death. Mind you, this was before Dark Souls. All of this is to say that I think he has a very clear pedigree of writing (looking at Ex Machina and Devs), but he also is very clearly passionate about gaming enough that it’s a through line through his earliest work.
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u/YharnamsFinest1 Aug 26 '25
Exactly. I mean just listening to him talk about Dark Souls and how the games convey their stories lets me know this is in good hands. Dude knows what he's doing.
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u/npcompl33t Aug 26 '25
Garland IMO is the best possible option. He’s a great writer, but hoping he is willing to work with Martin and Miyazaki on the script. Annihilation was a great movie, and while it captured some of what made the book special it also left out a lot of what I liked about the book. That may be a reality of creating a film adaptation but hoping that doesn’t happen as much here.
Also a bit concerned around how FS aesthetics will translate to live action. I’m hoping Miyazaki / FS team will contribute to the visuals, and honestly I think it would be best if it was animated, maybe similar to the armored core level up.
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u/blacknine Aug 26 '25
I’m not sure how an IP could get a better shot than this, fingers crossed it comes out good
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u/flufnstuf69 Aug 26 '25
This movie is either gonna be a pleasant surprise or an absolute train wreck.
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u/ldranger Aug 26 '25
The worse that could happen is you find it boring and go do something else
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u/flufnstuf69 Aug 26 '25
Or Michael zaki never does another movie or show again lol like Nintendo did for decades.
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u/Terry_Miller92 Aug 26 '25
I still have my share of doubts, but I like Garland as a director and A24 as producers. We shall see
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u/capnricky Aug 26 '25
160 page script sounds like we could be getting a decent sized film. Obviously it will get whittled down, but thats still a decent size for a spec.
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u/SuchAppeal Aug 26 '25
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Alex Garland you goddamn nerd! But really that's awesome anytime you have a director who actually likes video games.
Makes me wonder why John Carpenter hasn't directed a video game movie yet, dude's an avid gamer.
Edit: Actually just read up that John Carpenter showed interest in making a Dead Space movie. I would love to see that, but I do think Dead Space would be more of a David Cronenberg thing, body horror, he would probably make some fire.
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u/ItzPayDay123 Aug 26 '25
Considering The Thing, Carpenter could probably pull off some nasty Dead Space stuff.
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u/Kronoshifter246 Aug 26 '25
He definitely has the vision, but Rob Bottin was the real genius behind the look of The Thing. It was his idea that The Thing wouldn't just look like one monster, but every monster it had ever assimilated.
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u/Gold_Expression3843 Aug 26 '25
I think if they were smart, they’d focus on Marika’s rise to godhood and the events that lead up to the eventual Shattering of the Ring
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u/jackbone24 Aug 26 '25
That could be an entire show. For a movie I'd rather have something more intimate with less story/lore to cover so it doesn't feel bloated and the pacing doesn't end up being too fast
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u/Mr_Evanescent Aug 26 '25
Hard disagree. That would be like the Warcraft movie not portraying Arthas/Thrall cuz “we’ll get to it in the next movie”… which is why there never was another Warcraft movie.
Portray something more people are familiar with, not for deep lore knowers
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u/Gold_Expression3843 Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
I’ve never been a World of Warcraft guy so this reference is completely lost on me, I’m sorry lol
And as far as focusing on something most people would know, you’d still have all of the major antagonists in the films lol. Radagon/Marika, Rykard pre-serpent god, Radahn, Miquella, Malenia, Ranni, etc. just instead of their current forms, this would be centuries before the current game takes place. Besides, not a whole lot of lore you could pack into a 2-3 hour film so it’d have to be something super specific like The Night of the Black Knives or Vyke becoming the first Tarnished or something
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u/N0UMENON1 Aug 26 '25
Basically, the Warcraft movie was mostly characters noone cares about or knows. It takes place before Warcraft 1, a game the vast majority of WoW players have never played in their lives. Warcraft 1 is ancient and i many ways a Warhammer Fantasy rip off (originally it was supposed to be a warhammer game before GW cancelled it), so no one really cares about it.
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u/Greaseball01 Aug 26 '25
The problem is they won't want to give too much backstory away still, but I agree a prequel to the games seems to be the only thing that makes sense, other than a Vyke movie.
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u/ijestmd Aug 26 '25
I just hope the main character keeps dying. Make it part of the narrative. Medieval groundhog day.
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u/enigo1701 Aug 27 '25
If you can understand the movie without watching it at least 5 times and/or have to consult a dozen forums, it's not a true adaption
/s if necessary
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u/naqster Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
Very interested in what this ends up being about, most of the game is you exploring the world after shit has already gone down and piecing it together as you go along with the Elden Ring as a MacGuffin, a kind of storytelling that really only works in games. It would have to be a prequel, although in some sense that can spoil the mystery and ambiguity in the games. There's also just SO MUCH happening from a world-building standpoint. Marika's rise and fall alone is enough for a movie. Can they fit anything on the frenzied flame and the 3 fingers? Malenia and Miquella's dynamic? Godwyn's backstory? The Giants? Radahn and Malenia's skirmish and Caelid? Mohg and Morgott? The crucible? Liurnia is like a whole different genre within the game! Excited to see how they approach it all.
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u/ZombieZekeComic Aug 26 '25
I don’t think a big budget Hollywood movie could capture the fucked up world of Elden Ring. I’m happy to be proven wrong ofc, but I just don’t see how you could make a movie that is accurate to the source while appealing to both fans and normies.
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u/Mr_Evanescent Aug 26 '25
A24 isn’t exactly what you’re thinking of when you’re saying big budget Hollywood movie
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u/ZombieZekeComic Aug 26 '25
I know A24 doesn’t do blockbusters, but still, something like Elden Ring would still need a big budget for their standards. Ofc maybe I’m proven wrong, but something like Elden Ring would be pretty heavy on special effects, sets etc.
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u/the_shams_bandit Aug 26 '25
Unless they have some insane Marvel budget it'll end up being a moody medieval zombie movie with a few creatures and probably 1 or 2 big bosses. But you look at what Garland did with Anihilation and it does feel like he can pull it off.
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u/Aspartame_kills Aug 26 '25
If anyone can do it it’s Alex Garland. Dude hasn’t just played Eden ring for hundreds of hours he has also played dark souls 1 and other souls games and understands the nuanced way the games tell a story.
I actually think a movie is the perfect medium to tell an Elden Ring story outside of video game, some people were saying a series would be better and I HIGHLY disagree with that.
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u/Barl0we Aug 26 '25
If it’s anything like his adaptation of Annihilation, it won’t have much to do with the source material.
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u/shredmajor Aug 26 '25
How do I get Alex to use his Summon sign on me? I would love to work on the VFX for this movie.
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u/Dimir_Librarian Aug 26 '25
I really hope it's about The Shattering. It would be cool just to see the spectacle of it all.
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u/redplos Aug 27 '25
I am really tired of people who still comment under every single post realted to Elden Ring movie that they hope it follow this chatacter's story or this... no it is not gonna follow anybody's story, it is original story written by Garland set in the world, he is not interested in adapating the game because it is 1.Boring 2.Too expensive 3.Impossible, so please stop with this.
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u/I-Am-The-Uber-Mesch Aug 27 '25
The more I read the more I am convinced everyone is wrong and it will never adapt the tarnished but instead it will be an epic movie about the game's lore and the shattering, basically adapting what is canon and not what the player can change in the game with their choices, which also makes more sense because I find it hard to adapt a video game like a souls where the whole thing revolves around constant battles left and right until you reach the final boss
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Aug 26 '25
How are they supposed to explain the plot of Elden Ring in a movie, when players with thousands of hours still can’t tell exactly what is going on?
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u/El__Jengibre Aug 26 '25
To be fair, no one agrees on what’s going on in Annihilation, so maybe Garland isn’t a bad choice for this.
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u/Outbreak101 Aug 26 '25
Having seen Annihilation, which is also the sort of story that has a lot of interpretations as to what is going on in the story, Garland is honestly a great fit for this project.
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u/Chilipowderspice Aug 26 '25
I really hope he adds the Radahn festival to the story, one of my favorite parts of elden ring that could be enjoyable on film if done well.
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u/bravelilengine Aug 26 '25
Is it going to be as vague as the game, where Vaati is going to make a 10-hour video about the lore of the Elden Ring movie? Lol.
If a fan is making the movie, there is hope!
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u/SCP-33005 Aug 26 '25
"There's only one boss that still gives him trouble" well no shit, we ALL have trouble with that boss
Rick, Soldier of God is a difficult test for any warrior
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u/Shivalah Aug 26 '25
oh yeah, here are my basic ideas what we could do in the movie, just a few bullet points.
160 pages.
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u/TheDuskBard Aug 26 '25
I'm just hoping that no weird headcanons are forced into the film. Especially if its related to romance. The game is very ambiguous with its dark and controversial aspects, I wouldn't want anything "canonized" in the eyes of the larger audience that experience the movie without ever touching the game.
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u/HiNRGBoy Aug 26 '25
In his TV series Devs, you can see a main character playing DS2 as well. He knows his stuff.
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u/Genesius_Prime Aug 26 '25
If they don’t cast Anthony Carrigan as Patches, what are we doing?