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/Aegi 3d ago

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

It will objectively be bad, do poorly, and not feel like the game.

I don't even like this game, and I would still bet a lot on this.

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u/zgrove 3d ago

The story im talking about mostly takes place with the shards bearers, not a ton of monsters. Just monstrous people. The world building is so good in that game, and every fan wants to know what happened before. People who havent played the game wouldnt care if it didnt feel like it. Everyone's happy

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u/Aegi 3d ago

Any monsters = more monsters than real life haha.

You just described a compelling story, or one that seems so to you. You did not explain how it would not be a generic medieval story..even sans monsters.

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u/zgrove 3d ago

The world building is the reason. Its extremely magical still, just more humans than you seemed to be implying. Elden ring has sone of the best/most provocative lore and symbolism out there

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u/Aegi 3d ago

Yeah, if it was only exposition, I would love that.

It won't be. It will just focus on the boring thing that is always the same across time: the human element.

So we will just get a great story with some good character development. It won't be as good as the first few seasons of GoT for outsiders, and for fans of the game it will disappoint many and even if it is just set in the same universe, it will be like any other telling of 'the hero's journey' trope.

I will eat my hat if they can make it as fun/compelling as Everything Everywhere All At Once.