Remember when there was a time we all seriously thought Elden Ring would never come out? Now not only has it launched, but it’s a bonafide cultural legend. Now it’s facing its next evolution: A live-action film adaptation. Bandai Namco and film company A24 announced today that they have selected Alex Garland to lead the adaptation, serving as both director and writer. Garland is a director with a pedigree in games as well as film, being one of the writers behind Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. In film, he’s the writer behind the 28 X Later series and sci-fi thriller Sunshine; and the director behind Ex Machina and Civil War. Elden Ring would be slightly outside his normal milieu, but he’s clearly got the background to bring such a big story to the screen. Beyond Garland’s involvement, we know little about the adaptation of Elden Ring, such as story direction. Bandai Namco confirmed that the film will be produced by Peter Rice alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA, and George R. R. Martin and Vince Gerardis. George R. R. Martin was also behind some of Elden Ring’s original story concepts. Elden Ring is one of multiple game with confirmed live-action film adaptations in the works, as Hollywood continues to deepen its relationship with the video game industry. The latest games with film counterparts in the works include Split Fiction, OutRun, Gears of War and BioShock (the latter two being Netflix adaptations that have been in the works for some time. GB Daily Stay in the know! Get the latest news in your inbox daily Read our Privacy Policy Thanks for subscribing. Check out more VB newsletters here. An error occured.

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Image: Bandai NamcoThe rumours were true: Elden Ring is getting a movie adaptation thanks to studio A24, with acclaimed writer and director Alex Garland, best known for Ex-Machina, Civil War, and for writing 28 Days Later (and the upcoming 28 Years Later), at the helm. Deadline broke the news late yesterday and also confirmed the producer line-up — Peter Rice, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich (Warfare, 28 Years Later), Game of Thrones producer Vince Gerardis, and A Song of Ice and Fire writer George R. R. Martin. Martin, of course, contributed to much of the worldbuilding to FromSoftware's critically-acclaimed open-world RPG. Bandai Namco, who published the game, has also confirmed the news, announcing that it would be collaborating with A24 on production. So, we know the movie will be live-action — that only makes sense. But we have a lot of questions here. How will Garland adapt the story? He isn't the most obvious choice for an Elden Ring movie, but we think he's a bold — and good — one. Otherwise, which characters will be in the movie? Will Miriel, Pastor of Vows be present, and who will play them? Does the movie touch on the Shadow of the Erdree DLC at all? Will it go in a completely different direction to the game? The thing is, Elden Ring is a lore-heavy game. It'll be interesting to see just how it's adapted for the screen. Elden Ring comes to Switch 2 later this year. While we don't have a release date for the Elden Ring movie yet, we at least have the Switch 2 version of the game to come in 2025. And in case you're wondering why on earth Elden Ring is getting a movie adaptation, the game has sold over 30 million copies. It's a no brainer. What do you think of this news? Is Alex Garland the right fit for the Elden Ring movie? Call Torrent and ride down to the comments to let us know. Plus new looks for Torrent That's a lot of tarnished [source deadline.com] Related Games See Also Share:0 1 Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate. Hold on there, you need to login to post a comment... Related Articles 27 Upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 Games We're Excited For In 2025 The very best Switch 2 games coming soon Nintendo Unveils Diddy Kong's Brand New Design Cap's off Shigeru Miyamoto Explains Why Donkey Kong Has Been Redesigned You want expressive? You got it Here's A Look At The Size And Inside Of Switch 2 Game Cases Arriving in store next month Zelda Fans Are Concerned About The Free Switch 2 Updates, But Don't Worry It's likely performance will still be improved

A rumored Elden Ring movie became a little more of a reality on Thursday night when Bandai Namco announced that Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina) was set to direct a film adaptation of the FromSoftware action role-playing-game for indie-studio darling A24. George R.R. Martin, who provided game director Hidetaka Miyazaki with a murky amount of mythological foundation for the original game, will serve as a producer on the film. Garland might look like an odd choice for Elden Ring based on his filmography; the writer-director has never made a fantasy epic, nor has he orchestrated the kind of medieval combat that would make him an obvious choice to bring Miyazaki’s tough-as-hell boss fights to live action. But Garland’s “gamer cred” is indisputable and an understanding of play is core to much of his work. Hot take time: I’d say his 2012 film Dredd is the greatest video game movie that isn’t actually based on a video game ever made. Starting out as a novelist before pivoting to screenwriting and directing, Garland has made his gaming inspirations known throughout his career. He has said that his time outrunning zombie dogs in Resident Evil was the direct inspiration for the fast zombies in 28 Days Later, which he wrote for director Danny Boyle. When he and Boyle teamed up to adapt Garland’s own novel, The Beach, the collaboration resulted in the closest thing we will ever get to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Banjo-Kazooie movie. In 2005, riding high off 28 Days Later’s success, Garland was tasked by Microsoft with adapting Halo into a feature film — a project that stalled out and sat on a shelf for so long that streaming television was invented and Halo became a decent Paramount Plus show instead. He also went on to collaborate on actual video games: He worked with Ninja Theory and Bandai Namco on 2010’s Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and he served as a story supervisor on 2013’s DmC: Devil May Cry. At some point around that time, he played and fell hard for The Last of Us. (In fact, Garland thinks TLOU is better than 28 Days Later, but hey, none of us are right about everything.) Garland’s gaming tastes are all over the map — in 2020 he aggressively kept up an Animal Crossing island like the rest of us — but his visible influences veer toward the AAA action experience. His adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation has the pace and encounters of an open-world game. His FX show Devs seems right up the alley of anyone looking for Deus Ex or Control vibes. Both Civil War and his 2025 film Warfare bring audiences closer to the kind of tactical military action that we rarely see in movies, but that is all over multiplayer shooters. But for my money, his off-the-leash translation of video game aesthetics and experience in cinematic form happened with Dredd. Written and produced by Garland and technically directed by Pete Travis (Vantage Point), Dredd drops the classic 2000 AD comic antihero, played by The Boys’ Karl Urban, into a The Raid-esque action scenario: To stop a violent drug lord (Lena Heady), the Judge must blast his way through 200 stories of a highly barricaded Mega-City One high-rise. Between the slo-mo effects induced by the illicit drug (appropriately named “Slo-Mo”) and the psychic abilities of Dredd’s sidekick Cassandra, Dredd is a dizzying array of action beats that plunges viewers into a bullet hell without resorting to any gimmicky first-person shooting. By all accounts, the making of Dredd was a fraught experience for all involved, with the studio losing enough faith in Travis that Garland remained on set for the entire shoot and supervised the edit. Urban even claims Garland “actually directed the movie.” When you see it, that makes sense — even the Slo-Mo effects feel specifically like a bullet-time mechanic rather than a complete acid trip. Will Garland make a great Elden Ring movie? What does that even look like? The good news is he’s probably been thinking about it for years, as a fan of FromSoft games. In interviews over the years, the filmmaker has cited Dark Souls as a particular favorite franchise, and even offered an explanation for why an adaptation would be such a challenge. “The Dark Souls games seem to have this embedded poetry in them,” Garland told Gamespot in 2020. “You’ll be wandering around and find some weird bit of dialogue with some sort of broken song with a bit of armor outside a doorway and it feels like you’ve drifted into some existential dream. That’s what I really love about Dark Souls. These spaces are so imaginative and they seem to flow into each other and flow out of each other. It’s very dreamlike […] I can’t imagine how that would [be adapted]. The quality that makes Dark Souls special is probably unique to video games.” The joy Garland finds in Dark Souls games isn’t far off from what Elden Ring offers him as a director — in the end, a successful adaptation will ride on mood and pace and some wicked fights. That’s what Dredd nails, even without a game as actual source material. Dredd broods without relying on too much exposition. Cassandra’s ethereal psychic powers thread a bit of innocence and whimsy into a heavy-metal dystopia. The action is brutal to the point that it often feels like a horror movie (a style Garland pushed to even more gut-wrenching, realistic extremes in Warfare).  “Elden Ring from the guy who brought us Dredd” makes a lot of sense. Now to find an actor with eight arms…

Hollywood is about to get Tarnished (Bandai Namco) A film adaptation of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring is in the works, with George R.R. Martin on board as a producer. After rumours emerged earlier this month, FromSoftware has officially announced it is partnering with A24 to make a live-action film adaptation of Elden Ring. As announced in a press release, Alex Garland will write and direct the project. He’s best known for directing films like Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War, but he’s also served as writer on several Danny Boyle films, specifically Sunshine, 28 Days Later, and its upcoming sequel 28 Years Later. Garland has worked on video games too, serving as a co-writer on 2010’s Enslaved: Odyssey To The West and a story supervisor on 2013’s DmC: Devil May Cry. George R.R. Martin, who contributed to the story of Elden Ring alongside the game’s director Hidetaka Miyazaki, is a producer on the film. He’s joined by Game Of Thrones producer Vince Gerardis, Peter Rice, and Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA Films. Interestingly, Miyazaki’s name isn’t mentioned, which suggests he’s not involved. Speaking to The Guardian last year, he expressed his interest in making a film adaptation of Elden Ring but said he doesn’t think he has the ‘knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium’. Adapting Elden Ring’s dark fantasy world to live-action will certainly be a challenge, but the biggest task might be translating the game’s lore into a tight narrative, unless it opts to tell its own story within the same universe. More Trending Between Garland and Martin though, this is probably the most promising film based on a video game currently in development. Others in the works include a BioShock movie at Netflix, a new Street Fighter movie, a Death Stranding film, OutRun with Sydney Sweeney, along with countless more. There is no indication of when the Elden Ring film will be released, or when it will start shooting, so it will likely be a few years away yet. This announcement comes a week ahead of Elden Ring: Nightreign, a roguelike multiplayer spin-off which is set to launch on May 30 across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Nightreign launches this month (Bandai Namco) Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here. For more stories like this, check our Gaming page. GameCentral Sign up for exclusive analysis, latest releases, and bonus community content. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Bandai Namco and A24 announce Elden Ring live-action movie, Alex Garland directing Pulasthi Ariyasinghe Neowin @LoneWolfSL · May 23, 2025 07:16 EDT FromSoftware's Elden Ring is coming to the big screen. The game's publisher, Bandai Namco Entertainment, and movie production company A24 have announced a partnership that will see the popular action game being adapted to live-action movie form. Alex Garland has been announced as the writer and director of the project. He has previously been involved with movies like Civil War, Annihilation, and Ex Machina, while also being the writer behind projects like Dredd and 28 Days Later. FromSoftware famously worked with A Song of Ice and Fire series author George R. R. Martin to build up its lore. The author is also attached to the movie now, this time as a producer alongside Vince Gerardis, Peter Rice, Andrew Macdonald, and Allon Reich. Winner of numerous Game of the Year Awards in 2022, Elden Ring turned out to be a massive success for the developer and publisher. Bandai Namco recently announced that the Souls-like RPG has sold over 30 million copies so far. Where the story will be set in the movie is a mystery. The game itself takes place following a cataclysmic chain of events, named The Shattering, that has effectively killed the world. The movie might take place before the event, during it, or even tell a story set in the same timeline as the game. In any case, it may be years before we hear about the movie project again. FromSoftware has been building upon Elden Ring since its launch, too. Last year, the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion launched, taking players to an entirely different realm to tell another story in the dark fantasy universe. Soon, a spin-off title will launch out of the studio, too. Titled Elden Ring Nightreign, the cooperative multiplayer-focused title shakes up the gameplay loop and pacing entirely. Tags Report a problem with article Follow @NeowinFeed

FromSoftware and A24 to produce Elden Ring adaptation Ex Machina writer and director Alex Garland to helm the film, George R. R. Martin on board as producer Image credit: FromSoftware News by Sophie McEvoy Staff Writer Published on May 23, 2025 FromSoftware has partnered with A24 to produce a film adaptation of Elden Ring. Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland has been signed on to direct. He's also known for writing 28 Days Later and Sunshine, in addition to the upcoming 28 Years Later and its sequel The Bone Temple. Author George R. R. Martin, who provided worldbuilding for Elden Ring, is on board to produce. Peter Rice and Vince Gerardis are also producing, alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA Films. Last year, Martin teased a potential adaptation or TV series of the game. "Oh, and about those rumours you may have heard about a feature film or a television series based on Elden Ring… I have nothing to say," he wrote in a blog post. "Not a word, nope, not a thing, I know nothing, you never heard a peep from me, mum mum mum. What rumour?" FromSoftware's president Hidetaka Miyazaki also spoke about the potential adaptation during an interview with The Guardian. "I don't see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example," said Miyazaki. "But I don't think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that's where a very strong partner would come into play. "We'd have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we're trying to achieve, but there's interest, for sure." Elden Ring isn't the only game adaptation in the works at A24, as it's also co-producing a Death Stranding movie with Kojima Productions. A Quiet Place: Day One's Michael Sarnoski is reportedly signed on to direct.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is serving as a producer.