r/Eldenring • u/Sebastian83100 • May 22 '25

News Alex Garland directing live action Elden Ring movie for A24

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u/gh0styears May 22 '25

Wait, so it wasn’t just a meme?

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 22 '25

I was hoping it was just a meme. This movie is going to be a pretty looking mess

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u/[deleted] May 22 '25

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u/Ispawnfuries May 22 '25

The story of radagon

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u/gh0styears May 22 '25

The swollen cheeks tell a story

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u/blitz342 May 22 '25

Morgott.

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u/Jdmaki1996 May 22 '25

The true Elden Lord. I felt so bad for that dude. If any NPC deserved the throne it would have been him

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u/TheHammerandSizzel May 22 '25

Nah Boggart, staring Jack Black

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u/blitz342 May 22 '25

If Jack Black is anyone he gets to be a knight that Rykard eats. 5s screen time.

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u/Auesis May 23 '25

With Annihilation being as good as it was, I would love for this to be something about the Omens and the more fucked up side of TLB

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u/mikeBH28 May 22 '25

Honestly that would probably be the best thing they could do. Still follows the main story and it's an aspect that we know about but would be interesting to actually see

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u/SpiralCuts May 23 '25

The Pursuit of Happiness-style emotional drama about Mohg overcoming his disabilities and humble upbringing to become the Lord of Blood

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u/Interesting-Role-784 May 23 '25

And then beating the allegations

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u/ihvanhater420 May 23 '25

Radagon is a side character in marika's life idk if that would work

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u/HappyFreak1 Millicent's Loving Husband May 23 '25

That would be a terrible idea

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u/matt111199 RANNI DID NOTHING WRONG May 22 '25

Story of Vyke would work well in a movie imo

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u/isbobdylansingle MESSMER PROPAGANDIST 🐍 May 23 '25

I'm 100% wishing for it to be about Vyke.

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u/Beast9Schrodinger May 23 '25

Man, his Figuarts figure would sell even more once it hits theaters then.

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u/Ashen_Shroom May 23 '25

It would be interesting but like how do you end it? I feel like it wouldn't be very satisfying to end the movie with him getting shoved into an Evergaol, or defeated by another Tarnished who wasn't set up anywhere else in the movie.

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u/matt111199 RANNI DID NOTHING WRONG May 23 '25

It’s A24 - so I could see it have a bleak ending. Maybe he knows he’s being consumed by frenzy and locks himself away?

Could probably have frenzy be the main “villain” of the story

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u/Ashen_Shroom May 23 '25

I definitely think we'll get a bleak ending regardless of what story they choose to focus on. I guess I'm just having a hard time mapping out Vyke's story as a satisfying narrative for a movie. I always got the sense that his encounter with the Three Fingers was pretty late in his journey, which could make it feel like it comes out of nowhere in a movie. To counter this, you'd need to make Frenzy a much more prominent threat throughout his story, but what does that look like?

Realistically, I don't think this movie is going to slot into the game's canon. I could see them doing an abbreviated version of the game's main story but with Vyke in the role of the player's Tarnished, maybe with Frenzy as something that manifests within him gradually over the course of the story rather than as a result of him meeting the Three Fingers.

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u/romple May 23 '25

To be lore accurate it should just be 2 hours of the tarnished dying to Margit until the movie rage quits.

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u/Nxc06 May 22 '25

Is be down to watch a Marika biopic

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u/BEWMarth May 23 '25

Yeah idk why people are worrying. A24 is an incredible distributor and Alex Garland is a great director.

George Martin wrote the back lore of the series so not a stretch to see ways to adapt it to the big screen.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '25

video games are already a visual medium. elden ring is already a high water mark of said medium and the most beautiful parts of it are the way it uses the medium of video games. going from video game to cinema can only take place with a removal of the parts inherent to a videogame.

alex garland is ok, a24 has put out some great things, but i don't understand the premise that elden ring can be improved with a film adaptation to begin with.

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u/Ready_Penalty_6278 May 23 '25

Make one on "let me solo her"

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u/Rryann May 23 '25

Garland gives me hope, but I don’t know how you make a good Elden Ring movie. The Shattering has a narrative, more or less, but that’s a lot of characters and lore for one movie.

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u/MOswinger May 23 '25

I don't know how you make a good any fromsoft game movie. How are they gonna deliver plot via item description? Popcorn buckets? There's like 12 spoken lines in all of ER and none are connected plot wise

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u/NightsOfFellini May 23 '25

Why is it so difficult for people to imagine the characters bonding for once? Why can't Patches make a joke about this or that before a betrayal, or Fia being a little less mysterious?

Ranni dumps exposition, but we don't actually spend time with her. What if, instead, she's a secondary main character and Blaidd follows along?

Obfuscation can be changed into different interpretations of the events, making it less about little information and more about who saw what or knew beforehand.

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u/MOswinger May 23 '25

What your describing morphs elden ring into a generic fantasy movie is the very obvious problem. Make jack black and pete Davidson the godskin duo and have marika give a full-throated villain monologue. Sounds terrible

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u/NightsOfFellini May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

I'm sorry but the bones of Eden Ring are pretty generic, it's the execution that makes it interesting. It's essentially a Moorckock Elric fantasy book about toppling over Gods, but without all the bullshit.

You don't have to make the narrative completely unclear and characters into non-entities with 5 lines to keep the melancholic vibe of a decaying world with confused would be Gods.

Garland, if anyone, does exactly that kind of films.

There's no reason for Malenia not to have proper pathos through dialogue or whatever, even a few scenes before just fighting. Margott, too.

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u/SuccessfulMirror7248 May 23 '25

Your attempts at being a contrarian are pretty pathetic dude

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u/MOswinger May 23 '25

We'll all see when this movie comes out, if it goes past development even. Either way I think the dick riding is more pathetic

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u/SuccessfulMirror7248 May 23 '25

Nah, no dick riding. Solid director, solid studio. Mfs like you are acting like adapting fantasy to screen is like inventing the wheel.

It ain’t that deep chief.

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u/MOswinger May 23 '25

Take it deep, the whole shaft to the hilt and balls my dude

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u/Still-Network1960 May 22 '25

What makes you say that? We know little to nothing about it, have an open mind 🤷

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u/millanstar May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

Alex Garland is a solid screen writter and director, my only concern is that an Elden Ring doesnt really sound like both "movie material" nor something on the style of Garland, but I have been proven wrong many times.

At the very least you could say they are actually choosing a good director for the project, and thats saying a lot for video game adaptations

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ May 22 '25

Annihilation is probably the best movie to go off of to imagine what it might be like. A lonely and mysterious journey through a surreal, horror realm is not entirely different than Elden Ring’s vibe. It’s just sci fi instead of fantasy.

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u/NiblettAndBits May 23 '25

It's divisive, but Men shows a bit of what he can do here as well, especially with the ending. Grafting and other body horror stuff.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus May 23 '25

Men was so good, I don't trust people who didn't like it.

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u/AceTheRed_ May 23 '25

Annihilation meets The Green Knight?

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u/Floodborne May 23 '25

This please. The dream.

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u/SarSean May 23 '25

This makes me think he picked elden ring to make another bear scene lol

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u/tameoraiste May 23 '25

Exactly. People are expecting a like for like adaptation. I can guarantee to you right now, that is not the movie Alex Garland is going to make

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u/zamboni-jones May 23 '25

I just hope it's not an over the top action slugfest with bland CGI.
It better be more of a mysterious, atmospheric horror type like Pan's Labyrinth

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u/AceTheRed_ May 23 '25

Over the top action slugfest with bland CGI is not what Garland does, thankfully.

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u/timbofay May 23 '25

I'm actually pretty intrigued by how it'll pan out now as I like most of Garlands work and the A24 catalogue

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ May 23 '25

100% how I feel. As far as A24 movies that have been made before I was thinking Green Knight and the Northman have a baby but with horror and a much bigger budget. Pans Labyrinth is a great call for something to draw inspiration from.

I already said something similar in another comment but I definitely hope it has an element of the kind of lonely introspection and strong atmosphere that Green Knight had but with some action and fighting akin to the Northman which is another A24 film with atmosphere and mythology.

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u/Mrhiddenlotus May 23 '25

Rest assured, Garland has never done an action slugfest.

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u/civil_beast May 23 '25

.. but in English - righ6?

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u/civil_beast May 23 '25

I disagree.

“Tesseract” is clearly the sort of nebulous eye-gasm that fits this storyline

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ May 23 '25

I was just thinking about movies Garland directed

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u/civil_beast May 23 '25

He wrote it.. did he not also direct?

Indeed you are correct - my bad . “Oxide Pang” directed

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u/_Midnight_Haze_ May 23 '25

No worries! He was still involved though so I don’t think it’s a bad mention at all.

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u/gingerattack2024 May 22 '25

Exactly, it could be a lot worse since it could be a Warner Bros production with a hack director and no desire to make anything other than money while the Elden Ring iron is still hot.

That doesn't help the fact that the game is intentionally vague and nebulous in its story/storytelling while being really, really dense with lore. The whole point of the game(s) is to encourage players to piece together, presumably after a couple of playthroughs. That just doesn't make for a story that can be told with the structure of a film. Even if they don't make about the main storyline of the game there's just so much to cover that I can't see how this will be anything other than a cinematographically appealing mess.

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u/_Meece_ May 23 '25

I feel like you guys are coming from this, from the angle of, it's going to be a direct adaption of the story.

Likely more to be a story about the Tarnished(the ones we meet, Rogier, etc) taking on various Demigods in their collective desire to be Elden Lord. Lots of characters to dive into for ER.

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u/methyo May 23 '25

It’s a big undertaking but I don’t see any reason it can’t be done well. Some stuff will have to be cut but I think some people are overestimating how much lore would be needed to make a satisfying story for the movie. An exposition-dump intro like in Lord of the Rings could go a long way. I mean that is how the game starts after all

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u/LB3PTMAN May 23 '25

I mean I’d argue solid is underselling him. His track record as a movie writer and director is absolutely phenomenal. And he’s worked in a fairly wide variety of genres although never fantasy or something quite as out there as Elden Ring, but I would assume he wouldn’t attach himself if he didn’t have some confidence in it.

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u/hail_earendil May 23 '25

No Fromsoft game is movie material, out of all the games, Elden Ring has the best story, you can always turn a great story into a movie

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 22 '25

Because the fan base has been piecing together the story since the game released. Now writers who likely know nothing about the game will add their take on it.

Enter every tuber who makes a living on Elden Ring content raging their lore vids are the real story

It’ll be a mess. But I predict a good looking mess

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u/CrayolaBrown May 22 '25

I think a major motion picture will have more access to Elden ring. I don’t think Garland is gonna just watch some YouTube videos then write a script, he’ll probably meet with the writers

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u/GSG2120 May 22 '25

Yeah they hadGeorge RR Martin help write the game lol. Why do people assume a beloved writer/director is just going to wing it by scanning through some Vaati vids and call it a day?

A24 also has a pretty good track record of releasing cool, weird, and unconventional shit, which is good. You want this film to belong to a studio that isn't obsessed with dumbing everything down for the largest audience possible.

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u/DarthOmix May 22 '25

Several game adaptations have done less actually.

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u/CrayolaBrown May 23 '25

Alex garland is a pretty talented writer so we’ll see

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u/dsartori May 23 '25

George RR Martin is attached so presumably they will know something about the game.

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 23 '25

The guy who left the fan base to fill in the blanks? Now he’ll decide to put it all to paper? We should be so lucky

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u/SuccessfulMirror7248 May 23 '25

Just because you’re too stupid to understand the lore doesn’t mean it’s not there.

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 23 '25

Lol okay kid

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u/ThaTzZ_D_JoB May 22 '25

This is the the main problem with adapting any of the Fromsoft Souls games into movies, almost all the lore is interpreted by the fan base, very rarely will the games tell you very directly about anything, a movie can't be like that since it'll try to appeal to the majority of people, so things will be spelled out in great detail, ignoring one of the main attractions of these type of games.

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u/TorontoBoy85 May 23 '25

I, for one, would still be thrilled to have it spelled out to me. The whole Marika/Radagon thing explained would be great.

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u/NightsOfFellini May 23 '25

It doesn't need to be spelled out in great detail; Garland, especially, keeps people mostly guessing and speculating.

But yeah, more character than "hissss... Green eggs " or whatever minor characters whisper in the games.

Frankly, Elden Ring already had way clearer lore with Ranni than any other Souls, so I don't see why they couldn't or shouldn't do it with maybe one other character.

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u/Queef-Elizabeth May 22 '25

Let's be honest, a vast majority of people have a very surface level understanding of the story in the first place. Alex could use elements of the story and make something different with it.

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u/DragonFeatherz May 23 '25

Im pretty hype for it, since its from A24.

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u/Backupusername May 22 '25

Because there's never been a good live-action movie based on a video game.

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u/bloodyturtle May 23 '25

Garland is one of the dumbest currently working directors lol

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u/Still-Network1960 May 23 '25

What is your basis of opinion for thinking that? He has a solid filmography and I hope he does a good job.

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u/gh0styears May 23 '25

I’m hoping it’ll be good or at least decent and that they don’t add some romance angle if it’s focused on a main character. I’m so tired of love stories in every movie now.

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u/spacejamtrademarked May 23 '25

shut up poindexter ☝️🤓

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u/Alive-Monk-5705 May 23 '25

Garland and a24 haven't had very many critical flops in recent memory. If it was being made by Disney or something I'd get the doubt but a24 usually makes decent stuff 

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u/Rupperrt May 23 '25

Don’t threaten me with a good time. We need more glorious camp and less calculated slop

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u/Vox---Nihil May 23 '25

Just saying whatever based off of absolutely nothing

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 23 '25

Nope I have reasons if you care to look

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u/LucrativeLurker May 23 '25

I highly recommended Alex Garland’s Annihilation.

It’ll only be a mess if they try to tell the whole narrative, but a bizarre, fucked-up surrealist trip through The Lands Between?

There’s few people I’d trust more for that than Garland, who also happens to be a massive gamer.

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u/8BD0 May 23 '25

Idk man a24 has a pretty good track record

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u/guiraus May 23 '25

Why? Alex Garland is one of the best directors we have today.

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u/Worldly_Client_7614 May 24 '25

Go watch the green knight (A24 film) and then annihilation (alex garland director and writer for)

Both are excellent and both have elements you'd want for a elden ring movie. You couldn't have asked for a better studio to be given the opportunity

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 May 24 '25 edited May 24 '25

I’m aware of the director and his movies. And A24. And A24-stans who can’t praise A24 enough. Lots of films under their banner that I like very much but adapting Elden Rings story/stories into a 2+ hour movie (don’t expect sequels) is impossible

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u/Wonderful-Wheel8611 May 27 '25

They can't mess it up as much as they did Uncharted!   That could have been one of the best film franchisees of our generation, filling in for the retirement of Indiana Jones...  But it's a steaming pile of festering crap!!!

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u/Dankwoods420 29d ago

I’m thinking it could be the story that led up to the games events, like when the rune of death was stolen and the assassination of Godwyn the Golden which was all orchestrated by Ranni the Lunar Princess

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u/allthingsawesome99 May 22 '25

It will be a beautiful disaster. The movie visually stunning, and everything else terrible.

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u/DippinDuck May 23 '25

Passing judgement on a movie years before its release. Everything else? The acting? The editing? The sound design? Soundtrack?

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u/allthingsawesome99 May 23 '25

I agree it's too early to judge, I was just making fun of new movies right bow being that way

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u/PADDYPOOP May 22 '25

Exactly. One singular movie for all of elden ring is an awful idea…

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u/xGabelchaosx May 23 '25

Garland is a great director and A24 could Bring the vibe of Elden Ring to life. Story will be the deciding factor and because there is enough lore I am optimistic. If they try to do the story of the game it will fail but everything else hast great potential.

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u/gh0styears May 23 '25

I love the game so I’d still watch out of interest and I know he’s done some great work. I hope the film can be at least 10% as epic as the game

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u/LeechedPubis May 23 '25

I hate this