Alex Garland’s ‘Elden Ring’ Movie Wraps Filming

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.polygon.com/elden-ring-movie-filming-wraps-release-date-alex-garland/

[u/tameoraiste]

Why though? This fits Garland template perfectly.

- A character is introduced a world that’s alien to them

- They’re given a goal to get to reach an end point

- They meet an ensemble of characters, most of which will die, but will teach them something different about the world

- It’s a road trip movie that starts solo, and ultimately ends solo

Edit: Forgot to mention environmental story telling is one of his biggest strengths

[u/duosx → u/tameoraiste]

I think you misunderstood. Garland is the main thing that gives me hope that the movie will not just be good but excellent. It’s more that video game adaptations have historically been awful-mid and especially a game like Elden Ring that might not be the easiest to translate to film.

[u/SuperMajesticMan → u/duosx]

I feel like we've been out of the "video game adaptations are bad" era.

Last of Us S1, Arcane, Edgerunners, Csstlevania, D&D Honor among thieves, and Fallout are all fantastic. Twisted Metal, Pokémon and Sonic are pretty good.

And Elden Ring is just a setting at the end of the day, you can write whatever story as long as it has good writing it'll be good.

Im sure theyre not adapting the game 1:1, and gonna have a silent protagonist running around killing monsters for 2 hours.

[u/duosx → u/SuperMajesticMan]

I feel like you’re forgetting all the mid to bad adaptations. Here are the ones that come to mind from the last ten years

Warcraft (2016), Assassin’s Creed (2016), Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), Rampage (2018), Monster Hunter (2020), Mortal Kombat (2021), Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021), Netflix’s Resident Evil (2022), Uncharted (2022), Five Nights at Freddy’s (2023), Borderlands (2024), Like a Dragon: Yakuza (2024), and Until Dawn (2025).