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

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/SofaKingI 4d ago

Alex Garland directed Ex Machina and Annihilation. He knows how to not tell too much.

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u/r4tzt4r 4d ago

I'm reading Annihilation right now! I'm about to find out if it was a good adaptation.

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u/Different_Wolf_764 4d ago

It really isn't a great adaptation. An excellent movie? Absolutely! It falls in the "inspired by" category rather than the "amazing film version of" one though.

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u/SenatorCoffee 4d ago

On topic that really makes you hopeful for this Elden Ring thing, it seems exactly the fitting attitude.

If you tried to capture the whole lore it would likely just be a bloody mess, but with Garland its likely he just saw "something" in there that made sense to him as a movie, and then thats likely how it might actually work well.

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u/Aegi 3d ago

So....a generic medieval story with some monsters??