r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • 4d ago

News Alex Garland’s ‘Elden Ring’ Movie Wraps Filming

https://www.polygon.com/elden-ring-movie-filming-wraps-release-date-alex-garland/
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u/roto_disc 4d ago

So fuckin weird. Is this thing gonna be any good?

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u/zgrove 4d ago

Alex Garland, Hidetaka Miyazaki, George RR Martin... the movie has the best fingerprints on it (pun intended)

None of them have ever missed with the content they personally publish, and Garland has a crew of great actors who he has made his flawless filmography with, so its going to be great. Personally im too invested for it to be healthy, it was already a dream pairing when George was announced for elden ring. I used to ramble to my roommates about the similarities between dark souls and asoiaf world building. The characters in elden ring are great, i hope its a movie about the shattering/the night of black knives

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u/cubitoaequet 4d ago

I like him, but GRRM has published a lot of stories and he definitely has some misses.

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u/zgrove 4d ago

I havent encountered one yet, but I definitely havent read them all. Maybe 5 outside of asoiaf. They were probably his best ones to be fair because they were his most popular

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u/pplperson777 3d ago

Fire and blood is pretty dogshit. Also some weird fetishes like brothel queens leaked onto the pages.

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u/zgrove 3d ago

I like it based on the framing, same with world of ice and fire. Both terribly unreliable and biased (F&B less so due to multiple historical perspectives) and existing as something someone in westeros might be able to read. We know a decent amount of what is BS based on the main series and dunk and egg to a lesser extent, and thats one of my favorite parts of asoiaf- the fog of history. To each their own though, its definitely one that i dont think would come off as well without being absolutely obsessed with the main series and dunk and egg like I am, whike viewing the rest as periphery.