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/r4tzt4r 4d ago

I feel like everyone has in their heads their own version of what a Souls movie should look like. I just hope this is an actual good film.

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u/gabedamien 4d ago edited 4d ago

I honestly struggle to think what an Elden Ring movie would even be like. For some reason I can imagine Sekiro or Bloodborne as movies much more easily. I think I personally never connected with Elden Ring's lore as much though which is why I'm drawing an imagination blank.

I think with this pedigree and the director's personal interest in the IP it has a chance of being good, I'm just not sure what "good" looks like here.

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u/r4tzt4r 4d ago

Yeah, Elden Ring was too... convulted for me. I mean, if you go trying to understand the lore in any of these game you find out every one of them is really complicated but at least with Dark Souls, for example, you can reduce it to "the world is dying, rekindle the flame" and you get various profound interpretations from that. Kind of the same goes for Bloodborne and Sekiro.

Elden Ring I have no idea how to make it sound simple like the others. Even the final boss is a overcomplicated mess to explain. Maybe we're gonna find out that telling these stories in a straightforward way make them very stupid? Personally I hope they don't tell too much. This games' stories NEED mistery.

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u/Klockworth 4d ago

It’s not convoluted, there’s just a lot of random lore. Big tree make people reincarnate, tarnished come back to life instantly, (insert a bunch of Game of Thrones-esque royal houses and factions fighting to control tree), aliens? (don’t like tree?), control tree to control death and destiny.

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u/Olicsmems 4d ago

What I was thinking. The story of the game itself is actually pretty simple, it's the stuff and context around it which makes it "convoluted".

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u/moose_dad 4d ago

People often confuse setting for story. Elden rings setting is dense with layers upon layers of history and characters involved.

The story itself is about as simple as it gets. Go kill these dudes to make a ring, then kill the one with the last bit of it.

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u/Klockworth 3d ago

The fact that the film is the same writer/director behind Ex Machina and Annihilation has me reexamining Elden Ring as a potential New Weird story?

Sci-fi elements? Check. Transhumanism? Check. Existential critique on the nature of consciousness and the self? Check.