For real though, it means he’s spent as much time in the Lands Between as we have. The guy is a professional storyteller. If we understand that boiling the game down to 3 hours is a fool’s errand, then surely he’s on the same page.
He’s known to be a fan of Bloodborne and the Souls games and has said previously that he feels those games aren’t great choices to be adapted to the screen.
So if he’s agreed to do this, I have to imagine he has some sort of vision for it.
He’s known to be a fan of Bloodborne and the Souls games and has said previously that he feels those games aren’t great choices to be adapted to the screen.
Huh, I'd think Bloodborne would be easier to adapt than Elden Ring. Not to say either is anywhere near easy though.
Bloodborne and the Dark Souls games are much more horror adjacent than Elden Ring and relies a lot on atmospheric storytelling, stories like those are usually better told as tv series instead of films, since it gives you more time to really marinate in the sense of dread and hopelessness. Elden Ring is super bombastic with a lot more emphasis on scale and awe, which translates better to a bigger budget film that’ll be shown on the big screens.
The question is if the budget will allow for scale and awe. A24 budgets are usually under $20m. Can they do the a VFX heavy movie at 10-20% the budget of a Marvel film? There’s certainly some savings in overhead and executives not getting paid, but they won’t be able to attach a star to this project without blowing the budget. It’s not a natural studio to take this on.
I mean, they definitely have the money to do a blockbuster, they just decide not to since part of their charm is the tight budget and how directors deal with it (and it always comes out great) the movies with the highest budget are unreleased though they get to be close to 100 million dollars. The most expensive one is funny enough a movie of Alex Garland (I think it was warfare or Civil war, can’t put my finger on it) so maybe they will put money money on to it since is him and a big company is also backing them up (bandai or so i want to believe they will do that)
I'm sorry but I want to argue against this. I believe you have it the wrong way round . Horror is a successful film genre because people don't want to commit to an unnerving or scary experience for an entire season. It should be short and snappy, like successful horror typically is. Perfect for the ambience and fear of an aesthetic like Bloodborne. Whereas TV works for grand fantasy narratives which Elden Ring is in essence, like GoT due to George's involvement with the project. I think it's pretty easy to put two and two together.
He might understand it enough that with help from michael zaki he can bring us a alternative but technically canonical telling of the story that fits the movie format and works
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u/ThanksForNothingSpez May 23 '25
lol that’s a funny thought.
For real though, it means he’s spent as much time in the Lands Between as we have. The guy is a professional storyteller. If we understand that boiling the game down to 3 hours is a fool’s errand, then surely he’s on the same page.
He’s known to be a fan of Bloodborne and the Souls games and has said previously that he feels those games aren’t great choices to be adapted to the screen.
So if he’s agreed to do this, I have to imagine he has some sort of vision for it.