Forum - View topicNEWS: Elden Ring Game Gets Live-Action Film Helmed by Civil War's Alex Garland
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Rip, they should have just made an animated movie like the in game cutscenes. Or better yet, a Studio Ghibli movie directed by Miyazaki, the creative mastermind behind classics like Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Bloodborne, Princess Mononoke, Demon's Souls, Nausicaa, Sekiro, and etc.
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residentgrigo
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The Souls games could work as a low dialogue CG movie or mini series in the vein of Angel's Egg but I don´t see how you can make a blockbuster here. The studio and director are hardly hacks, so we´ll see. I´ll keep an open-ish mind.
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meruru
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Will the protagonist be Let Me Solo Her?
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enurtsol
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Hardly story in the game
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This isn't true. There's plenty of story material to work with. Ask the lore YouTubers like VaatiVidya or Tarnished Archeologist and you'd find thousands of hours in story content. [ REMOVED ] The real question here is how the director will go about adapting it into a live action movie format. Moderator's Note: play nice. --F |
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AiddonValentine
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I mean, if we want an Elden Ring/Dark Souls movie, just watch The Green Knight. FromSoft games when you get down to it have always been more about the atmosphere and world than a straightforward plot (mostly because of Miyazaki just making stuff up and piecing it together later, as he's admitted). Then again, I've found games with not a lot of plot, but have a great world/lore tend to be better for adaptation. Hence why Castlevania worked so well
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Wizardizar
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Yeah, same for Fallout. If anything, a lot of what works for Annihilation is also the vibe and atmosphere, so Garland is clearly a great choice. I wanna see how fucked up he makes Caleid look. |
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Themaster20000
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I was just going to say how David Lowery is the only director I could see being able to pull off an adaptation of it. I can't see Garland being able to capture that atmosphere at all. |
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Bonebrain
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People complaining there's no story clearly ignored the Minecraft movie doing well despite zero story. They can just make one up. Have Jack Black fighting monsters or whatever.
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yeehaw
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I've never played the game but from what I've gathered it's the story of a divorced couple and all their children and their complicated circumstances getting murdered for no reason by some rando (the player)
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enurtsol
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Lore but not story. It's not a story-driven game |
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Lightice
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Assuming that the production company isn't trying to push out a generic blockbuster and will accept a film typical to Garland's style, it could work. I.e. fairly stylistic and introspective without excessive amounts of action or dialogue.
It would probably be the best to base the game on the events of the Shattering, rather than the present day of the game's storyline, since that part of the narrative is the most fleshed out. A somber film about the end of the world and the faint hope of restoring it some day in the distant future would work the best for the game's tone. Here's for hoping that the producers understand what they have signed for, or at least to not intervene with the creative process too much. Still, I believe that this film will actually come out the day I see the trailer. There's so many announcements for unusual film productions that never see the light of the day, nowadays... |
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Fluwm
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I think there's definitely room to make a great movie based on Elden Ring, but I don't think this is the machine to make it.
As others have noted, Elden Ring's story is, like the Souls games', almost entirely bereft of plot. It's all just setting and backstory. Granted, what's there is all very evocative, but these are all dead worlds populated by grotesque monstrosities who rarely, if ever, even speak, and never actually *do* anything: they exist only to wait in place for the player to kill them, and nothing more. But, like... the boss monsters are undeniable awesome, so I could definitely see an adaptation taking its cues from kaiju movies, being less about some hero confronting a litany monsters, one-by-one, and more about simply surviving in a world filled with these creatures -- and, just like in a kaiju movie, wouldn't it be more fun to see the monsters fight each other rather than some dweeby human? I have zero hope of that ever actually *being* an Elden Ring movie, though. Best-case scenario, assuming it doesn't language in production hell forever and never actually get made, I can't see this being anything other than an extremely mid convetional fantasy romp desperately trying to recapture to success of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones without any real understanding of what made either of those actually work. |
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jdnation
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A24 is doing both Death Stranding and Elden Ring?
This is very interesting. For one, interesting that an arthouse label is getting into video game properties, and has nabbed two very high profile properties. And two, that video game studios are looking outside typical Hollywood for more indy fare, which is good imo. Aside from Hideo Kojima, who we know loves arthouse films, and pretty much makes arthouse games with Death Stranding, that Miyazaki and FROM would also pick A4 and chose Alex Garland, tells me that they are looking to makes something very atypical. I would not expect a high octane action film in this regard. Probably a very lonely lore-driven adaptation. So they are likely not adapting the story's lore, but much like the game and Garland's films, it'll be much more along the lines of 'Annihilation,' where one or a group of tarnished are making their way through the Lands Between with a unique story and uncovering some of the lore, potentially leaving open the idea for sequels. Even disconnected ones that are all stand-alone. This could be very cool! |
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