With production officially wrapping, here’s everything we know about Alex Garland’s video game adaptation.
Here’s everything we know with production officially wrapping after 4 months of filming.
Release date
- Scheduled to release in theaters on March 3, 2028
- The film is also being released in IMAX.
- They have almost two years of post-production to polish the film.
The creative team
- Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation, Civil War, Warfare) wrote and directed the film.
- The movie is produced by A24 and Bandai Namco Entertainment with a $100M+ production budget.
- George R.R. Martin, who helped create the game’s mythology, is a producer alongside Peter Rice, Andrew Macdonald, Allon Reich and Vince Gerardis.
Cast includes:
- Kit Connor
- Cailee Spaeny
- Ben Whishaw
- Nick Offerman
- Tom Burke
- Havana Rose Liu
- Sonoya Mizuno
- Jonathan Pryce
- Ruby Cruz
What Alex Garland has said
- Garland revealed he was on his seventh playthrough of Elden Ring before directing the film.
- On defeating Malenia: “I used a mimic and a blood build… I know that’s a boring answer.”
- Garland says the way he kept beating bosses was ‘throwing yourself at them until eventually they die’.
- According to The New Yorker, Garland wrote a 160-page screenplay and 40 pages of visual references before flying to Japan to personally pitch the adaptation to Hidetaka Miyazaki.
Story details
- Plot details remain under wraps.
- The film is likely set in The Lands Between, though it hasn’t been confirmed whether it directly follows the Tarnished from the game or tells an original story.
- Leaked set photos and footage have confirmed the appearance of several recognizable elements from the game, including Queen Marika and The Loathsome Dung Eater.
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