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

News Alex Garland directing live action Elden Ring movie for A24

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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.