Elden Ring is getting a film adaptation

Elden Ring volition soon beryllium much than conscionable a deed video game. On Thursday, Bandai Namco and A24 announced a live-action Elden Ring film directed by Alex Garland.

Japanese developer FromSoftware released Elden Ring crossed Xbox, PlayStation, and PC successful 2022, portion a mentation for the Nintendo Switch 2 is acceptable to beryllium released this year. The enactment RPG became an instant hit, and puts you successful the relation of a Tarnished tasked with restoring the Elden Ring by defeating assorted challenging bosses passim the Lands Between. The Elden Ring spinoff Nightreign is coming retired connected May 30th, 2025.

Garland is simply a writer, director, and shaper champion known for films similar Ex Machina, 28 Days Later, and Dredd.

FromSoftware archetypal hinted astatine the imaginable to grow Elden Ring “beyond the realm of games” successful 2022. Last year, George R.R. Martin — the A Song of Ice and Fire creator who helped constitute the game — besides said, “There is immoderate speech astir making a movie retired of Elden Ring.” A work called Nexus Point News archetypal reported connected the adaptation with A24 earlier this month, but pulled its archetypal article and didn’t explicate why.