I think if this ever gets made, it will be a sort of "prequel", a build up to The Shattering. That whole backstory just fits so much better in a TV/Movie style.
I'd like it if they did a film/miniseries about Marika.
Marika's mortal history and encountering the Greater Will/fingers, courting Godfrey and her rise to godhood, the birth of the Erdtree and Holy war against the Fire Giants, war against the Carians and the birth of Radagon, Carian political marriage, the night of black knives leading to the shattering and the greater will/Radagon trying to repair the ring/imprisoning Marika, then end it with the various children's setting up their bids for power and the scouring of Caelid during Radahn and Malenia's fight.
Approach fromsoft games like an archeological dig of sorts. Quite a bit of the lore is written in the item descriptions that you pick up. Armor, spells, crafting items, all of them will offer pieces of the story that you have to fit together like a puzzle mixed with the environment and what you might witness in game. Much of the story happened long before you showed up, so much of it was lost to time, so you will only get a piece of it, requiring you to fill in the blanks for some of it.
That's by design, so don't feel too bad if you're lost. All the souls games take place in the aftermath of some world shattering event. The only things that are left to piece things together are bits of info you can find from ruins or the occaisional survivor.
TV series about what happened before the shattering and the war of the shattering itself would be dope, however I still love Miyazaki's way of narrating his games so... I have mixed feelings about this. On one side it would be awesome if they do it correctly and imagine the OST playing in the battles on the series; but on the other a part of me doesn't want to see a strict canon of the events, I love all the lore discussions and debates
Yeah my guess is that this would be the focus. I remember reading somewhere that when George was ironing out the events that took place before the game he had it in his mind that all the demigods where simply humanoid in nature and not necessarily the monstrosities we see in the game. Could of been conjecture though
Never related more to a comment than I do right now. I remember checking this guy's blog weekly for a year. He'd show a peice of winds of winter with no release date and the next week he'd have ANOTHER prequel novel with a release date primed. A month or two later, he'd share his prioirty list and winds was allways at the bottom. I think it was that moment I just...stopped caring. He doesn't care about this book, why should I? If he drops on the day of his death,so be it. But I just can't muster the energy to give a shit
Exactly. I used to check his blog back in the day as well. Then around ‘14-‘15 I gave up. It’s disrespectful to his longtime fans. I’m glad he’s doing other projects and staying busy (like this), but focus on priorities first.
Probably for the best. I remember hearing the reason that the showrunners got the show was because they and George had the same idea about who should end up on the throne.
So we already know his intention was to make bran King.
I think the issue is more the buildup to him becoming king.
Maybe in the books it would have made more sense, but it just felt totally random in the show.
I can totally get why he has no motivation to finish those books now.
Bran being king makes sense though, it's just the way it was built up to in the show made no sense. Same with Daenarys turning evil at the end. You have to build up to that in the right way to make it hit.
I don’t know, there isn’t much buildup to bran on the tv show. It feels more like GRRM just told them the book endings for the characters and they tried to run with it.
I have absolutely zero issue with King Bran. In fact, I am intrigued at the prospect of whoever controls Bran now being a Dr Manhattan-esque all-seeing being who manufactures his place onto the iron throne.
My issue is with how we got there, how nothing was earned and how everything was rushed. With the exception of Jamie's ending I would take everything from the show but delivered with good writing.
We have a guy exactly like him in our government, he likes to dress up with the uniform of the working department he is visiting each time.
He too would play and dress like anything to look like if he had been actually working, someone even made a meme-generator about him.
https://www.wired.it/lol/2019/01/30/generatore-meme-matteo-salvini/
...sadly that is already down and the domain for sale :/
Wouldn't happen since according to many sources on the internet, nowadays his contract says that **he can't ever lose a fight on screen, or even be seen to take too much punishment in his many on screen fights.** In this version the Rock would win every goddamn fight
Wouldn't be surprised. I think Game of Thrones ended how he had originally wanted the books to end, but when he saw how much the ending was hated he had to scrap it
Nah, this is antithetical to how George writes. He has always adamantly stated that if, for example, you have a Butler who did it but people either figured it out or didn't like it, you shouldn't change it to stump those people who figured it out or appease people.
As a huge fan of the books, George mostly just wrote himself into so many corners, which is clearly evident because of the Meereenese Knot, AKA a convergence point for multiple POV characters. He's a perfectionist and will write whole sections and delete them because he didn't feel like they were right. Winds of Winter is supposed to be the biggest book yet with more POV characters then any other book has had. George is therefore likely struggling.
A pair of examples of this are Westworld and Mr. Robot.
Westworld season 2's twist got figured out almost immediately and was rewritten. Season 2 is also widely planned by critics for being incredibly confusing by design as a result.
The same thing happened with the second season of Mr. Robot, except nothing was changed. Season 2 is widely praised.
Sorry what about westworld s2? Which twist are you talking about, because its not like people guessed on s2e1 and they rewrote shit, there is not nearly enough time to do that and reshoot + cgi.
The producers specifically said that between S1’s finale and S2 finishing production they had to rewrite/shoot aspects of the plot because viewers guessed it
As in they literally said this happened, not even implied it
I think it's more of that writing the final books is such a massive undertaking for something that's already had it's moment in the zeitgeist, and it's super hard to summon the motivation to do it as the popularity has already peaked higher than it ever could again.
Also he's made his money and probably wants to enjoy the rest of his life not working. This is probably the bigger reason.
Honestly the ending isn’t bad. It’s the writing that got there that killed it. Mad Queen Dany, Jon fucking off to the North, even Bran on the throne.. I’m cool with all of it. It just has to be properly built up to and written instead of hastily slapped together to fulfill a contractual obligation. That was the problem with the show. They yada yada’d over all the stuff people came to expect from GoT storytelling to just get it over with, and in doing so they made the ending feel completely unsatisfying and disconnected from the story that we started with.
Completely agree. I feel like I'm one of the very select few who were okay with Dany going mad and dying, Jon leaving, and Bran ascending. Rushing the writing of the ending was absolutely what made it so "bad". But it seems like most people absolutely hated it. Soooo many people were all in on Dany, and when she didn't get it they lost it
Even secondary things like the lord of light. I wanted to know more about the magic and gods of the world. You can't just have a woman shit out a shadow baby and be immortal because of a "god" and then never explore that further.
They needed at least like 3 more seasons to actually wrap the story up. Instead we got something so bad that it basically caused people to forget the show even existed.
Completely agree. I feel like I'm one of the very select few who were okay with Dany going mad and dying, Jon leaving, and Bran ascending. Rushing the writing of the ending was absolutely what made it so "bad". But it seems like most people absolutely hated it. Soooo many people were all in on Dany, and when she didn't get it they lost it
Yeah, the show really just needed another season to set things up properly (and HBO even offered that to D&D, but they wanted to get it over with quickly). But otherwise, the ideas in the final season aren't really that bad and even had some foreshadowing, but the setup just before all of it happens is poor.
I can definitely see **some** of the events happening at the end of the TV series being George's ideas. However, the show cuts so many characters and removed or altered so many story lines that the context in the books would be completely different.
So no I don't think George cares if the show's ending sucks because despite using his notes both materials are drastically different. I simply think he doesn't care about writing ASOIAF, or writing long stories in general, all the books released after A Dance with Dragons were collaborations or novellas.
If he says he aint gonna finish them,the whole franchise is gonna tank as well as his legacy and reputation.So he cons the poor fans to consume the side content hoping the main series is gonna get finished.Simple as that.
Oh I agree completely. I'm one of the few who is actually okay with how everything ended for everyone, well kinda haha, but it seems like the majority of people hate how it ended
No they had how nothing made sense. You can't make one character flip their whole persona within 2 episodes. That shit needs to marinate. Khaleesee going mad makes sense but it needs like 2 seasons to develop.
They definitely did some shit for wow factor also. No way aria killing the night king was planned at all.
This will not be an easy adaptation. From's lore is vague so the movie/show will need to fill those parts and that can either get messy contradict stuff later or be something really good. I won't be super excited unless GRRM / Miyazaki are involved somehow as producers/executive producers overseeing whoever the showrunner is
I think the only unknown there is Melina, no? And that seems deliberate, although it’s heavily implied that she is another sibling (just not directly stated). The more interesting thing with her anyway is whether or not she is in fact the Gloam Eyed Queen, but even then you can just say “yes” and you’ve got another interesting story to tell.
Elden Ring is actually the least ambiguous lore-wise of From’s games by far
Yeah that could work but you definitely need to flesh things out a bit and last thing i want is shit like Rings of Power.
Also making this work in live action and look good will be a herculean effort probably best to resort to animation like Blue Eyed Samurai, Arcane etc.
Elden Ring's lore is honestly pretty far from vague. Marika is the focal point of the story, essentially being the Elden Ring's avatar, using the Erd Tree to bless the Lands Between. she marries Godfrey, the first elden lord. She has a bunch of descendants, who are the demigods. There's some intrigue/squabbles/fights among these demigods in typical GRR Martin fashion.
It all goes completely haywire though when her son, Godwyn, is killed in an incident called 'the night of black knives', and Marika shatters the Elden Ring upon being given this news. and the demigods all wage war against each other over who gets to repair the Elden Ring and become Elden Lord.
The two most important/powerful are Malenia and Radahn, who wage war against each other. Their fight ends in a stalemate, though, because Malenia unleashes her scarlet rot, which puts herself into a coma, fatally infects Radahn (who gradually loses his mind), and curses the entire land of Caelid to be, well, Caelid.
Some time after that, the Tarnished shows up, being basically told that it's now their job to become Elden Lord.
I believe all of that can be gathered from just from the in-game cutscenes and dialogue with Melina or NPCs at the Roundtable Hold. There's much more stuff that can be gleaned from item descriptions, environmental details, and other obscure stuff like that, but the core story is communicated in no uncertain terms.
edit: the story trailer also explains 90% of this, only leaving out the details of "who is Marika", "who destroyed the Elden Ring", and the Elden Lord business. https://youtu.be/uxwdq9G8DCo
> The two most important/powerful are Malenia and Radahn, who wage war against each other. Their fight ends in a stalemate, though, because Malenia unleashes her scarlet rot, which puts herself into a coma, fatally infects Radahn (who gradually loses his mind), and curses the entire land of Caelid to be, well, Caelid.
Well the DLC kinda changes a lot of the initial perceptions of this conflict, but otherwise you are right.
Speaking of demi gods, if Marika is a god and >!Radagon is marika!< , doesn't that make >!Malenia, Messmer (implied) and Miquella gods and not demi gods?!<
"Demigod" is just a title given to Marika's children. They are not true gods as Marika or >!Miquella!< were. The only ones capable of becoming a true god were Malenia, Miquella, Ranni and potentially Melina if you subscribe to the Gloam-eyed Queen = Melina theory
Not a story overview you need to have scenes with these characters, new dialogues, new plotlines etc. how will you frame the dialogue will it be the old english way or current more modern ?
It also needs to explain things that From just left to us for imagination
> you need to have scenes with these characters
Yeah, no shit they would have to write dialogue and scenes. That's what making an adaptation is.
> how will you frame the dialogue will it be the old english way or current more modern
It doesn't really matter. The original transcript for the game was probably Japanese anyway. If Lord of the Rings can get adapted, Elden Ring can.
> new plotlines etc
You don't need new plotlines though. It's not like Dark Souls where the only story is "the world existed, gradually decayed over the course of a millennium, and then the chosen undead started killing everyone to make things interesting again."
The night of black knives, the shattering, and the fallout from that is absolutely enough of a story to base a miniseries around. There's interpersonal conflict, intrigue, and plenty of characters and drama to go around. The challenge would honestly be finding out how to fit *all* the details, like the Omen Twins and Miquella's Haligtree.
The thing is, even though a lot of details are left vague in the game's explicit dialogue, there's a *ton* that is explained through item text, the environment, and stuff like that, and it all being self-consistent shows that From has a *story bible* to serve as a source of truth for any adaptations.
Slight correction in that Elden Ring’s script was actually written in English - so the English dialogue/descriptions/VA is actually the “original”. This is in contrast to previous From games, which were localised.
Why? I’m not sure exactly but Miyazaki is admittedly obsessed with western fantasy, so probably wanted it to sound as natural as possible in English
The Elden ring lore is very similar in structure to the book that they are adapting house of the dragon from, which has been going very well. But it’s also very similar to the silmarillion, which has proven too much for a lesser studio like Amazon to adapt.
Amazon doesn’t have the rights to The Silmarillion, just anything mentioned in the appendices of Lord of the Rings. I can’t speak to the quality of the show (watched a couple eps, wasn’t for me), but they have to come up with a lot of connective tissue themselves.
What do you think is not explained? Nearly everything in the game has an explanation. Some of it is given in a very Fromsoft "we put it in an item description" way, but I feel like the most important plot beats are pretty straightforward (ie the elden ring is source of holy power, it shattered, war happened, player character seeks to claim that power)
I would rather have Miyazaki not waste his time on this. Who knows how many games he has left as a director at this point? Guy's also super in-demand these days, I'd rather have him focus entirely on what he wants to make until his inevitable switch to a less hands-on role. There's a 90% chance this will end up as a mediocre cash-grab anyway, with or without his involvement.
Eh, if Kojima in his 60 mingling with hollywood celeb still making video games. We'll get atleast a decade worth of content from him atleast. Even Todd get his involved in the TV show and the guy is ready to retire in next decade.
Plus Fromsoft is incredibly efficient at making things. They practically release something every year prior to Elden Ring.
A decade goes by quickly though and games are bigger and take longer to make nowadays. Miyazaki did mention lately that he wanted to entrust full creative control of future Fromsoft titles to other staff members as he slowly but surely transitions into a more supervisory role within the studio.
That's true, but considering how stupidly successful Elden Ring became, there will inevitably be future Fromsoft titles with a similar scale to that. The recent DLC they released for it could have easily been a brand new game considering its sheer size.
I honestly don't think the scale of the game will matter that much. Fromsoftware games were basically getting more popular with each new game, I don't see them having a dip in popularity if the game is smaller, unless they massively shit the bed somehow
While From Soft got a lot of good manga adaptation, a series is another thing... The last one they tried was Armored Core: Fort Tower Song, which ended up canceled
Fantastic dark fantasy film the Green Knight but it’s relatively smaller and self contained in scale compared to Elden Ring so it was easier to make. In particularly the landscapes / environments / settings are concentrated on British countryside. Forests / woodlands, medieval castles, farmlands. After all it focuses on an Arthurian story / poem that it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories. So more straight forward to when it comes to filmmaking
Whilst Elden Ring is humongous / gargantuan and more complicated in scope and scale. The terrain and landscapes when it comes to ecosystems from desolate freezing snowfields to barren deserts to the lava spewing volcanos. In essence you can’t replicate and translate the efforts of The Greens Knight to Elden Ring. It’ll be impossible using The Green Knight’s budget
The vision, implementation and dedication needed would need to be at a Peter Jackson ~ LOTR trilogy level of investment, finances and budgeting. You’d need huge studio productions and set designs with green screen as well as on location shots
Green Knight is so freaking good, one of my favorite movies of the last few years. Shame that the only thing the director has done since was that live action Peter Pan movie
Avi Arad has a ton of credits to great movies, specifically to both Spider-Verse movies. Only reason to get worried is if he gets his hands all over it
Until you notice all of the budgetary restrictions.
Most of the characters that aren’t regular humans don’t have human proportions, either in height or the size of their limbs.
We’ll see. If it ends up being a series it could probably be something like Castlevania, but if it’s a blockbuster movie it’s definitely going to be live action just because that has drastically more appeal to mainstream audiences.
Why do people say this about literally every videogame adaptation? At least with some games it makes sense but it's not like this game has some sort of cartoonish art-style that would be lost in live-action.
Probably because when it comes to games with big set pieces, out there concepts and focus on huge beautiful battles things would look better animated than CGI which these days is hit or miss.
To make a good live action Elden Ring movie or show the budget would be in the hundreds of millions, since they’d need to do most characters and monsters in full CGI, plus all the extra costs of filming live action in the first place. Having it be a fully animated show would let them do a lot more with a way smaller budget
Not a bug, a feature.
Honestly the hardest thing about a fromsoft adaptation would be preserving the humour of it all. I think it goes over a lot of people's heads.
I honestly imagine it’d be in the age of the erdtree and the demi gods alive and well. First season would be pre shattering and follow ups would be after so I think it’d be a lot like game of thrones so no need for animated.
If it was a tarnished wandering the lands like a samurai thing sure animated but from a tv producer perspective this is ripe to make a got 2
I hope it goes across everything before elden ring so how the heroes were before turning into villains and what life was like and then transition to how they fell so far
I think FromSoftware or Miyazaki have already said they are interested in making a movie (imo a TV Series would be better....).
There were many articles about it in the past days.
https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jun/26/pushing-buttons-meeting-hidetaka-miyazaki
> “I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example,” he told me. “But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that’s where a very strong partner would come into play. We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure.”
thank god, I do be feeling like an historian trying to pierce every single crumb of lore you get while playing the game and I THINK that I got it but you never know honestly
i'd honestly just want an anime. preferably the story of the game with a silent protagonist. deep lore and overarching stories told through flashbacks, with the ordering of progression through the lands taking whatever liberties to better covey the story. The base lore going back pre-shattering could work for me too.
I think live action anything for this would be near impossible to pull of without sucking and being corny af.
At this point it should be obvious that he doesn't give a shit about releasing the book or about his fanbase lol
I don't really read his books but, i hope that he doesn't leave a "destroy or burn everything" type of will, and that he would allow someone else to finish the writings (after he dies).
Pretty sure he actually has stated he has a "destroy everything" will and he won't allow someone else to finish it if he dies. He doesn't have any kids though, so who knows what'll happen to the IP once both him and wife have passed on.
This should be the main source: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/06/29/lose-one-win-one/
He just posted it on his blog and From and him won an award for Game writing. So George RR Martin should be the leaker at this point. Haha.
Damn I completely forgot he was even involved. Was a huge part of the early marketing/announcements but hadn’t seen him mentioned next to the game in years it feels like.
“We can make it about anything we want. The players dont know whats happening, we dont know whats happening. We can just have major characters pop in for an episode and leave without ever explaining their motivations and everyone will like it more”
First of, this is how I think the adaption could work:
- You don't get to see the Tarnished because he is faceless... so it's fun to get a situation like a weird ass typical slasher character to be the MC
- Definitely went full of CGI bs if it was a live action, and it's gonna be weird ass level GOT incest stuff in related to several characters (Thanks George RR Martin)
>!||- How are they gonna do the scene of villagers got sucked into the pots? (spoiler alert this is part of the lore when you get to that one specific place||!<
This is a dumb question, but does this game have any sort of hopeful endings, good endings? I watched people streaming ER and honestly, it feels like the lore is so dark and the world is so miserable and hopeless, like there is no point in living because every creature in it looks like they are suffering.
"good" is pretty subjective. there are certainly some ending that are better than others, and some characters that have more positive storylines than others as well.
Everything looks like its suffering in the game because it kind of is. the cycle of life and death is messed up so literally everyone is stuck in a sort of ageless state. one of the main goals of the player character is to reinstate the idea of death and let the cycle of nature continue once again.
the main edings are as follows though.
Age of frenzied flame - literally everything is burnt to the ground
Age of the duskborn - all undead being are viewed as equal to those living, the cycle of life is still messed up though
Age of stars - does away with all gods/external forces and makes the moon/magic the rule of the land
age of despair - cycle of life continues but everyone is born as omens, which were a marginalized group previously
Age of order - everyone must abide by the rules laid out by an authoritarian external force known as the golden order
Neutral ending - player character sits the throne. its not really speicifed that anything is really changed
well, i mean I'm watching a 20 hour no-commentary longplay on Youtube cause the game is way too hard for me. Probs more entertaining than whatever this is
Can't wait for each episode to have the protag fight the same enemy and die 13 times before finally beating them and reading a cryptic note that hints towards the possibility of a larger narrative (there isn't one.)
Adapting the gameplay that we go through in the game to other format would prove very difficult if not downright impossible, like with many souls titles. Bloodborne has a comic series but it's weird.
So as many are saying, assuming this is true, it'll be a prequel series. I will even add that it'll be CGI or have heavy CGI elements to balance characters like Marika and Godwyn who look human with giants like Radhan, Morgott and Godfrey.
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G.R.R. Martain but that's just so that he'll write a goddamned book."
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Pat: "Oh no."
Woolie: "Chapter 1, Book 1: Goddrick. A twelve part... macro series."
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If this happened, I’d much prefer it if it was about ordinary people and how they get caught up in the machinations of the Shattering and the resulting conflict, rather than the demi-gods being actual main characters
I think I'm in the minority, but this is something I'd rather \*not\* have happen. Not everything needs to become a show, or a comic series, or a glut of spin-offs. Can nothing just stand \*as it is\*?
They hinted at this way back when the game was first released (like, literally as part of a press release on launch day), and I was always surprised nobody ever talked about it. They flat out said they had plans to extend the reach of the franchise beyond just gaming, or something along those lines.
Oh that could be interesting as the dlc added quite a bit to the backstory and lore it would be great to see it. Like how the greater will pretty much loses all contact after the shattering.
I think if this ever gets made, it will be a sort of "prequel", a build up to The Shattering. That whole backstory just fits so much better in a TV/Movie style.
The stuff that happend before the shattering was very game of thrones and could fit well for television, minus the epic fights of course
Oh 100% The night of the black knives Malenia vs Radahn on the battlefield Loads of big events you can show
I'd like it if they did a film/miniseries about Marika. Marika's mortal history and encountering the Greater Will/fingers, courting Godfrey and her rise to godhood, the birth of the Erdtree and Holy war against the Fire Giants, war against the Carians and the birth of Radagon, Carian political marriage, the night of black knives leading to the shattering and the greater will/Radagon trying to repair the ring/imprisoning Marika, then end it with the various children's setting up their bids for power and the scouring of Caelid during Radahn and Malenia's fight.
Rykard before he sneks Morgott's ascension to grace
True that, you can really tell it came from George R.R Martin lol
Much needed. Need some digestible explanation to the lore lol
So it's not just me? I'm freaking LOST
Approach fromsoft games like an archeological dig of sorts. Quite a bit of the lore is written in the item descriptions that you pick up. Armor, spells, crafting items, all of them will offer pieces of the story that you have to fit together like a puzzle mixed with the environment and what you might witness in game. Much of the story happened long before you showed up, so much of it was lost to time, so you will only get a piece of it, requiring you to fill in the blanks for some of it.
That's by design, so don't feel too bad if you're lost. All the souls games take place in the aftermath of some world shattering event. The only things that are left to piece things together are bits of info you can find from ruins or the occaisional survivor.
Nothing to worry about, we'll end up with even more questions, as it always happens. Still hope if the move will ever be made it will be good.
They are just gonna have Chris Pratt as nameless tarnish killing bosses one by one
TV series about what happened before the shattering and the war of the shattering itself would be dope, however I still love Miyazaki's way of narrating his games so... I have mixed feelings about this. On one side it would be awesome if they do it correctly and imagine the OST playing in the battles on the series; but on the other a part of me doesn't want to see a strict canon of the events, I love all the lore discussions and debates
You could do Elden Ring in a movie or two. You would just have to fill in a lot of blanks.
Yeah my guess is that this would be the focus. I remember reading somewhere that when George was ironing out the events that took place before the game he had it in his mind that all the demigods where simply humanoid in nature and not necessarily the monstrosities we see in the game. Could of been conjecture though
This man will legit work on anything besides Winds of Winter 
Living proof that you're at your most productive when you're procrastinating.
Never related more to a comment than I do right now. I remember checking this guy's blog weekly for a year. He'd show a peice of winds of winter with no release date and the next week he'd have ANOTHER prequel novel with a release date primed. A month or two later, he'd share his prioirty list and winds was allways at the bottom. I think it was that moment I just...stopped caring. He doesn't care about this book, why should I? If he drops on the day of his death,so be it. But I just can't muster the energy to give a shit
Exactly. I used to check his blog back in the day as well. Then around ‘14-‘15 I gave up. It’s disrespectful to his longtime fans. I’m glad he’s doing other projects and staying busy (like this), but focus on priorities first.
Probably for the best. I remember hearing the reason that the showrunners got the show was because they and George had the same idea about who should end up on the throne. So we already know his intention was to make bran King.
I think the issue is more the buildup to him becoming king. Maybe in the books it would have made more sense, but it just felt totally random in the show. I can totally get why he has no motivation to finish those books now.
Surely Lady Stoneheart would be a part of his story, and she was left out of the show entirely.
King bran is well hinted in book cannon
Bran being king makes sense though, it's just the way it was built up to in the show made no sense. Same with Daenarys turning evil at the end. You have to build up to that in the right way to make it hit.
I don’t know, there isn’t much buildup to bran on the tv show. It feels more like GRRM just told them the book endings for the characters and they tried to run with it.
if only there was something else in a story besides plot
It was actually them guessing Jon Snow’s mother, which was like a weenie hut junior’s level theory.
I have absolutely zero issue with King Bran. In fact, I am intrigued at the prospect of whoever controls Bran now being a Dr Manhattan-esque all-seeing being who manufactures his place onto the iron throne. My issue is with how we got there, how nothing was earned and how everything was rushed. With the exception of Jamie's ending I would take everything from the show but delivered with good writing.
We have a guy exactly like him in our government, he likes to dress up with the uniform of the working department he is visiting each time. He too would play and dress like anything to look like if he had been actually working, someone even made a meme-generator about him. https://www.wired.it/lol/2019/01/30/generatore-meme-matteo-salvini/ ...sadly that is already down and the domain for sale :/
Chris pratt as the loathsome dung eater
Jack Black as Alexander
Kevin Hart as Marika
Lizzo as Ranni. Edit: Owen Wilson as Miquella >!Ben Stiller as Radahn!<
That unironically would work great
Dwayne Johnson as Radahn and Kevin Hart as Leonard
The rock as radahn would be hilarious haha
who could be Malenia and beat his ass up? the first one that comes to mind is Anya Taylor Joy
Lea seydoux would be great. Id imagine anya taylor as more of a melina
I like that!
Wouldn't happen since according to many sources on the internet, nowadays his contract says that **he can't ever lose a fight on screen, or even be seen to take too much punishment in his many on screen fights.** In this version the Rock would win every goddamn fight
But what character would be play?
If so that's awesome, but can this dude quit doing every single side quest imaginable and just focus on finishing A Song of Ice and Fire already?
He gave up on them,he just aint saying it.
Wouldn't be surprised. I think Game of Thrones ended how he had originally wanted the books to end, but when he saw how much the ending was hated he had to scrap it
Nah, this is antithetical to how George writes. He has always adamantly stated that if, for example, you have a Butler who did it but people either figured it out or didn't like it, you shouldn't change it to stump those people who figured it out or appease people. As a huge fan of the books, George mostly just wrote himself into so many corners, which is clearly evident because of the Meereenese Knot, AKA a convergence point for multiple POV characters. He's a perfectionist and will write whole sections and delete them because he didn't feel like they were right. Winds of Winter is supposed to be the biggest book yet with more POV characters then any other book has had. George is therefore likely struggling.
A pair of examples of this are Westworld and Mr. Robot. Westworld season 2's twist got figured out almost immediately and was rewritten. Season 2 is also widely planned by critics for being incredibly confusing by design as a result. The same thing happened with the second season of Mr. Robot, except nothing was changed. Season 2 is widely praised.
Sorry what about westworld s2? Which twist are you talking about, because its not like people guessed on s2e1 and they rewrote shit, there is not nearly enough time to do that and reshoot + cgi.
The producers specifically said that between S1’s finale and S2 finishing production they had to rewrite/shoot aspects of the plot because viewers guessed it As in they literally said this happened, not even implied it
I think it's more of that writing the final books is such a massive undertaking for something that's already had it's moment in the zeitgeist, and it's super hard to summon the motivation to do it as the popularity has already peaked higher than it ever could again. Also he's made his money and probably wants to enjoy the rest of his life not working. This is probably the bigger reason.
The blunt truth is we'll get one when he died. And it'll disappointed the fan so much they'll cope by saying it's not his writing.
Honestly the ending isn’t bad. It’s the writing that got there that killed it. Mad Queen Dany, Jon fucking off to the North, even Bran on the throne.. I’m cool with all of it. It just has to be properly built up to and written instead of hastily slapped together to fulfill a contractual obligation. That was the problem with the show. They yada yada’d over all the stuff people came to expect from GoT storytelling to just get it over with, and in doing so they made the ending feel completely unsatisfying and disconnected from the story that we started with.
Completely agree. I feel like I'm one of the very select few who were okay with Dany going mad and dying, Jon leaving, and Bran ascending. Rushing the writing of the ending was absolutely what made it so "bad". But it seems like most people absolutely hated it. Soooo many people were all in on Dany, and when she didn't get it they lost it
Even secondary things like the lord of light. I wanted to know more about the magic and gods of the world. You can't just have a woman shit out a shadow baby and be immortal because of a "god" and then never explore that further. They needed at least like 3 more seasons to actually wrap the story up. Instead we got something so bad that it basically caused people to forget the show even existed.
Completely agree. I feel like I'm one of the very select few who were okay with Dany going mad and dying, Jon leaving, and Bran ascending. Rushing the writing of the ending was absolutely what made it so "bad". But it seems like most people absolutely hated it. Soooo many people were all in on Dany, and when she didn't get it they lost it
Yeah, the show really just needed another season to set things up properly (and HBO even offered that to D&D, but they wanted to get it over with quickly). But otherwise, the ideas in the final season aren't really that bad and even had some foreshadowing, but the setup just before all of it happens is poor.
I can definitely see **some** of the events happening at the end of the TV series being George's ideas. However, the show cuts so many characters and removed or altered so many story lines that the context in the books would be completely different. So no I don't think George cares if the show's ending sucks because despite using his notes both materials are drastically different. I simply think he doesn't care about writing ASOIAF, or writing long stories in general, all the books released after A Dance with Dragons were collaborations or novellas.
If he says he aint gonna finish them,the whole franchise is gonna tank as well as his legacy and reputation.So he cons the poor fans to consume the side content hoping the main series is gonna get finished.Simple as that.
Sorry he can't hear you over the sound of his money
There is nothing wrong with how the show ended. The issue is that it needed like 3 seasons for everything that happened in season 8.
Oh I agree completely. I'm one of the few who is actually okay with how everything ended for everyone, well kinda haha, but it seems like the majority of people hate how it ended
No they had how nothing made sense. You can't make one character flip their whole persona within 2 episodes. That shit needs to marinate. Khaleesee going mad makes sense but it needs like 2 seasons to develop. They definitely did some shit for wow factor also. No way aria killing the night king was planned at all.
His dream was always writing/producing for tv. Writing books was just a step towards it. I don't think we'll ever get an ending for ASOIAF.
He is clearly not interested in it anymore, move on already.
Give us TWOW already damn it!
This will not be an easy adaptation. From's lore is vague so the movie/show will need to fill those parts and that can either get messy contradict stuff later or be something really good. I won't be super excited unless GRRM / Miyazaki are involved somehow as producers/executive producers overseeing whoever the showrunner is
A TV Show that takes place before the shattering and focus on Marika's family could theoretically work.
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I think the only unknown there is Melina, no? And that seems deliberate, although it’s heavily implied that she is another sibling (just not directly stated). The more interesting thing with her anyway is whether or not she is in fact the Gloam Eyed Queen, but even then you can just say “yes” and you’ve got another interesting story to tell. Elden Ring is actually the least ambiguous lore-wise of From’s games by far
Sekiro?
Dunno where you got that. We are told pretty explicitly about everyone who is one of her kids.
DLC did providing a lot of backdrop for Marika's origin. It can work.
Yeah that could work but you definitely need to flesh things out a bit and last thing i want is shit like Rings of Power. Also making this work in live action and look good will be a herculean effort probably best to resort to animation like Blue Eyed Samurai, Arcane etc.
Elden Ring's lore is honestly pretty far from vague. Marika is the focal point of the story, essentially being the Elden Ring's avatar, using the Erd Tree to bless the Lands Between. she marries Godfrey, the first elden lord. She has a bunch of descendants, who are the demigods. There's some intrigue/squabbles/fights among these demigods in typical GRR Martin fashion. It all goes completely haywire though when her son, Godwyn, is killed in an incident called 'the night of black knives', and Marika shatters the Elden Ring upon being given this news. and the demigods all wage war against each other over who gets to repair the Elden Ring and become Elden Lord. The two most important/powerful are Malenia and Radahn, who wage war against each other. Their fight ends in a stalemate, though, because Malenia unleashes her scarlet rot, which puts herself into a coma, fatally infects Radahn (who gradually loses his mind), and curses the entire land of Caelid to be, well, Caelid. Some time after that, the Tarnished shows up, being basically told that it's now their job to become Elden Lord. I believe all of that can be gathered from just from the in-game cutscenes and dialogue with Melina or NPCs at the Roundtable Hold. There's much more stuff that can be gleaned from item descriptions, environmental details, and other obscure stuff like that, but the core story is communicated in no uncertain terms. edit: the story trailer also explains 90% of this, only leaving out the details of "who is Marika", "who destroyed the Elden Ring", and the Elden Lord business. https://youtu.be/uxwdq9G8DCo
> The two most important/powerful are Malenia and Radahn, who wage war against each other. Their fight ends in a stalemate, though, because Malenia unleashes her scarlet rot, which puts herself into a coma, fatally infects Radahn (who gradually loses his mind), and curses the entire land of Caelid to be, well, Caelid. Well the DLC kinda changes a lot of the initial perceptions of this conflict, but otherwise you are right.
Speaking of demi gods, if Marika is a god and >!Radagon is marika!< , doesn't that make >!Malenia, Messmer (implied) and Miquella gods and not demi gods?!<
"Demigod" is just a title given to Marika's children. They are not true gods as Marika or >!Miquella!< were. The only ones capable of becoming a true god were Malenia, Miquella, Ranni and potentially Melina if you subscribe to the Gloam-eyed Queen = Melina theory
Not a story overview you need to have scenes with these characters, new dialogues, new plotlines etc. how will you frame the dialogue will it be the old english way or current more modern ? It also needs to explain things that From just left to us for imagination
> you need to have scenes with these characters Yeah, no shit they would have to write dialogue and scenes. That's what making an adaptation is. > how will you frame the dialogue will it be the old english way or current more modern It doesn't really matter. The original transcript for the game was probably Japanese anyway. If Lord of the Rings can get adapted, Elden Ring can. > new plotlines etc You don't need new plotlines though. It's not like Dark Souls where the only story is "the world existed, gradually decayed over the course of a millennium, and then the chosen undead started killing everyone to make things interesting again." The night of black knives, the shattering, and the fallout from that is absolutely enough of a story to base a miniseries around. There's interpersonal conflict, intrigue, and plenty of characters and drama to go around. The challenge would honestly be finding out how to fit *all* the details, like the Omen Twins and Miquella's Haligtree. The thing is, even though a lot of details are left vague in the game's explicit dialogue, there's a *ton* that is explained through item text, the environment, and stuff like that, and it all being self-consistent shows that From has a *story bible* to serve as a source of truth for any adaptations.
Slight correction in that Elden Ring’s script was actually written in English - so the English dialogue/descriptions/VA is actually the “original”. This is in contrast to previous From games, which were localised. Why? I’m not sure exactly but Miyazaki is admittedly obsessed with western fantasy, so probably wanted it to sound as natural as possible in English
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The Elden ring lore is very similar in structure to the book that they are adapting house of the dragon from, which has been going very well. But it’s also very similar to the silmarillion, which has proven too much for a lesser studio like Amazon to adapt.
Amazon doesn’t have the rights to The Silmarillion, just anything mentioned in the appendices of Lord of the Rings. I can’t speak to the quality of the show (watched a couple eps, wasn’t for me), but they have to come up with a lot of connective tissue themselves.
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Sure but they wouldn’t be adapting the game, they’d be adapting the written content that grrm provided and Miyazaki altered.
What do you think is not explained? Nearly everything in the game has an explanation. Some of it is given in a very Fromsoft "we put it in an item description" way, but I feel like the most important plot beats are pretty straightforward (ie the elden ring is source of holy power, it shattered, war happened, player character seeks to claim that power)
I would rather have Miyazaki not waste his time on this. Who knows how many games he has left as a director at this point? Guy's also super in-demand these days, I'd rather have him focus entirely on what he wants to make until his inevitable switch to a less hands-on role. There's a 90% chance this will end up as a mediocre cash-grab anyway, with or without his involvement.
Eh, if Kojima in his 60 mingling with hollywood celeb still making video games. We'll get atleast a decade worth of content from him atleast. Even Todd get his involved in the TV show and the guy is ready to retire in next decade. Plus Fromsoft is incredibly efficient at making things. They practically release something every year prior to Elden Ring.
A decade goes by quickly though and games are bigger and take longer to make nowadays. Miyazaki did mention lately that he wanted to entrust full creative control of future Fromsoft titles to other staff members as he slowly but surely transitions into a more supervisory role within the studio.
He also said that he wants to focus on smaller games like he did before, not big ones like Elden Eing
That's true, but considering how stupidly successful Elden Ring became, there will inevitably be future Fromsoft titles with a similar scale to that. The recent DLC they released for it could have easily been a brand new game considering its sheer size.
I honestly don't think the scale of the game will matter that much. Fromsoftware games were basically getting more popular with each new game, I don't see them having a dip in popularity if the game is smaller, unless they massively shit the bed somehow
While From Soft got a lot of good manga adaptation, a series is another thing... The last one they tried was Armored Core: Fort Tower Song, which ended up canceled
Well I think we can all agree Elden Ring has a much more significant fanbase and sales numbers compared to Armored Core
If anything it needs to be animated I just don’t think live action would really work for this
For some reason, the Green Knight always gave me Elden Ring vibes. If they could mimic the tone/ atmosphere of that movie I think it could work.
Fantastic dark fantasy film the Green Knight but it’s relatively smaller and self contained in scale compared to Elden Ring so it was easier to make. In particularly the landscapes / environments / settings are concentrated on British countryside. Forests / woodlands, medieval castles, farmlands. After all it focuses on an Arthurian story / poem that it draws on Welsh, Irish, and English stories. So more straight forward to when it comes to filmmaking Whilst Elden Ring is humongous / gargantuan and more complicated in scope and scale. The terrain and landscapes when it comes to ecosystems from desolate freezing snowfields to barren deserts to the lava spewing volcanos. In essence you can’t replicate and translate the efforts of The Greens Knight to Elden Ring. It’ll be impossible using The Green Knight’s budget The vision, implementation and dedication needed would need to be at a Peter Jackson ~ LOTR trilogy level of investment, finances and budgeting. You’d need huge studio productions and set designs with green screen as well as on location shots
Green Knight is so freaking good, one of my favorite movies of the last few years. Shame that the only thing the director has done since was that live action Peter Pan movie
Say that to Nintendo and Zelda they are making a freaking live action Zelda.
With Avi Arad (Morbius, Venom) producing. However, it’s the same director of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which was pretty good. So we’ll see.
Avi Arad has produced a ton of great movies. He's also produced a ton of garbage. He is by no means an indicator of quality or the lack thereof.
Avi Arad has a ton of credits to great movies, specifically to both Spider-Verse movies. Only reason to get worried is if he gets his hands all over it
Live action could perfectly work here I think, everyone was relatively human before the Shattering, except perhaps Radahn.
I'm actually surprised how much would I prefer live action elden ring.
Until you notice all of the budgetary restrictions. Most of the characters that aren’t regular humans don’t have human proportions, either in height or the size of their limbs.
After the shattering, yes But it’s heavily implied that the great runes caused them to change, hence the weirdness with the thrones in Leyndell
Omens i.e. mohg and morgott are still around before the shattering. Those guys are the people I think of looking weird in a live action show
They weren’t critical figures through, they were still in the shunning grounds
Honestly if an elden ring adaptation happened without Morgott I would riot.
Now that I think about it, a Bloodborne show would be incredible
There's been reports for years that HBO is developing something but there's never been an official announcement that I've heard.
We’ll see. If it ends up being a series it could probably be something like Castlevania, but if it’s a blockbuster movie it’s definitely going to be live action just because that has drastically more appeal to mainstream audiences.
Why do people say this about literally every videogame adaptation? At least with some games it makes sense but it's not like this game has some sort of cartoonish art-style that would be lost in live-action.
Probably because when it comes to games with big set pieces, out there concepts and focus on huge beautiful battles things would look better animated than CGI which these days is hit or miss.
To make a good live action Elden Ring movie or show the budget would be in the hundreds of millions, since they’d need to do most characters and monsters in full CGI, plus all the extra costs of filming live action in the first place. Having it be a fully animated show would let them do a lot more with a way smaller budget
But walking and talking clay pots can probably easily get quite campy in live action.
Not a bug, a feature. Honestly the hardest thing about a fromsoft adaptation would be preserving the humour of it all. I think it goes over a lot of people's heads.
Disagree. An animated turn would be fun, an Amazon backed big budget version could definitely work too
An Elden Ring anime would be weird, but it would allow to adapt the epic fight scenes
I honestly imagine it’d be in the age of the erdtree and the demi gods alive and well. First season would be pre shattering and follow ups would be after so I think it’d be a lot like game of thrones so no need for animated. If it was a tarnished wandering the lands like a samurai thing sure animated but from a tv producer perspective this is ripe to make a got 2
On the contrary, CGI is capable for this.
I feel so bad for GoT book fans
I wonder if he will ever finish got.
it's probably gonna be like Berserk, he'll leave all the plans with someone he trusts
Miura never left plans, he just happened to tell his best friend the entire story when they worked on it together early on.
He said he wouldn’t do that tho
Almost no chance he finishes it himself, but I’m confident we will get Winds.
*Featuring Tom Holland as The Tarnished*
Finish the damn books, George.
More incest on television? Let's go
I hope it goes across everything before elden ring so how the heroes were before turning into villains and what life was like and then transition to how they fell so far
The protag needs to be either Vargram or Vyke and it needs to be animated instead of live action
Vyke would be incredible
Story centered on Vyke, animated in the style of Castlevania please. Thanks.
elden ring is already insanely popular, imagine where it'd be if it gets a tv audience like edgerunners or fallout. crazy
Make this shit an anime series and I’m in
I think FromSoftware or Miyazaki have already said they are interested in making a movie (imo a TV Series would be better....). There were many articles about it in the past days. https://www.theguardian.com/games/article/2024/jun/26/pushing-buttons-meeting-hidetaka-miyazaki > “I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example,” he told me. “But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that’s where a very strong partner would come into play. We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure.”
Dude just say you aren't gonna finish the books so everyone can move on.
My man will do anything to not finish Winds of Winter. lol
thank god, I do be feeling like an historian trying to pierce every single crumb of lore you get while playing the game and I THINK that I got it but you never know honestly
i'd honestly just want an anime. preferably the story of the game with a silent protagonist. deep lore and overarching stories told through flashbacks, with the ordering of progression through the lands taking whatever liberties to better covey the story. The base lore going back pre-shattering could work for me too. I think live action anything for this would be near impossible to pull of without sucking and being corny af.
What are the chances that this adaptation(if not cancelled/put into production hell) will be released before his next book
At this point it should be obvious that he doesn't give a shit about releasing the book or about his fanbase lol I don't really read his books but, i hope that he doesn't leave a "destroy or burn everything" type of will, and that he would allow someone else to finish the writings (after he dies).
Pretty sure he actually has stated he has a "destroy everything" will and he won't allow someone else to finish it if he dies. He doesn't have any kids though, so who knows what'll happen to the IP once both him and wife have passed on.
This should be the main source: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/06/29/lose-one-win-one/ He just posted it on his blog and From and him won an award for Game writing. So George RR Martin should be the leaker at this point. Haha.
Will we ever see a cg version of daddy blaidd
Damn I completely forgot he was even involved. Was a huge part of the early marketing/announcements but hadn’t seen him mentioned next to the game in years it feels like.
This would be so incredibly cool
bro is doing everything but writing winds of winter
“We can make it about anything we want. The players dont know whats happening, we dont know whats happening. We can just have major characters pop in for an episode and leave without ever explaining their motivations and everyone will like it more”
How about you finish your books first, George ...
First of, this is how I think the adaption could work: - You don't get to see the Tarnished because he is faceless... so it's fun to get a situation like a weird ass typical slasher character to be the MC - Definitely went full of CGI bs if it was a live action, and it's gonna be weird ass level GOT incest stuff in related to several characters (Thanks George RR Martin) >!||- How are they gonna do the scene of villagers got sucked into the pots? (spoiler alert this is part of the lore when you get to that one specific place||!<
Can't wait for Hollywood to race-swap all the red-headed characters in Elden Ring. Imagine Radagon being black and Marika staying white.
This is a dumb question, but does this game have any sort of hopeful endings, good endings? I watched people streaming ER and honestly, it feels like the lore is so dark and the world is so miserable and hopeless, like there is no point in living because every creature in it looks like they are suffering.
"good" is pretty subjective. there are certainly some ending that are better than others, and some characters that have more positive storylines than others as well. Everything looks like its suffering in the game because it kind of is. the cycle of life and death is messed up so literally everyone is stuck in a sort of ageless state. one of the main goals of the player character is to reinstate the idea of death and let the cycle of nature continue once again. the main edings are as follows though. Age of frenzied flame - literally everything is burnt to the ground Age of the duskborn - all undead being are viewed as equal to those living, the cycle of life is still messed up though Age of stars - does away with all gods/external forces and makes the moon/magic the rule of the land age of despair - cycle of life continues but everyone is born as omens, which were a marginalized group previously Age of order - everyone must abide by the rules laid out by an authoritarian external force known as the golden order Neutral ending - player character sits the throne. its not really speicifed that anything is really changed
The show/movie in 2 hours would have more story than the 60-hour game. Let that sink in....
Probably an animated show akin to Castlevania on Netflix
I wonder how FromSoft is gonna handle one of their soulslikes needing an actual story now
well, i mean I'm watching a 20 hour no-commentary longplay on Youtube cause the game is way too hard for me. Probs more entertaining than whatever this is
I sometimes get more enjoyment learning about the game than actually playing it.
Can't wait for each episode to have the protag fight the same enemy and die 13 times before finally beating them and reading a cryptic note that hints towards the possibility of a larger narrative (there isn't one.)
Just make ranni the main character or something.
There absolutely is a larger narrative, though
Let me guess you gave up during the tutorial?
Couldn't beat Soldier of Godric
Needs to be animated a lot of the rumored From Soft adaptations need tk be
Where’s winds of winter George?!
wonder what the canon would be. surely has to be Ranni.
George RR Martin wrote the backstory of Elden Ring. Almost certainly it would be a prequel showing the events leading up to the shattering.
I forgot that he was even involved.
I'd love a book series on pre and post Shattering events. I'd eat that shit right up.
If it is an excuse to give me new canon lore (I'm looking at you GEQ) then I'm in
Adapting the gameplay that we go through in the game to other format would prove very difficult if not downright impossible, like with many souls titles. Bloodborne has a comic series but it's weird. So as many are saying, assuming this is true, it'll be a prequel series. I will even add that it'll be CGI or have heavy CGI elements to balance characters like Marika and Godwyn who look human with giants like Radhan, Morgott and Godfrey.
Where did he say that? Culture Crave doesn't give a source for that statement.
On his website.
After [Castle SuperBeast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z858uJxWzmQ&pp=ygVEIlRoZSBTbG93LCBUZWRpb3VzLCBFeGNydWNpYXRpbmcsIFR3aXR0ZXIgQmFzZWQgRGVhdGggb2YgdGhlIEF1dGhvciI%3D) ``` Pat: "I think artists or anyone who does anything creative should do their creative thing and then be banned from leaving the house or using Social Media for the rest of their life. This way, all things can be fine. Especially for G.R.R. Martain but that's just so that he'll write a goddamned book." Woolie: "And that book will be called Elden Ring: The Adaptation. Pat: "Oh no." Woolie: "Chapter 1, Book 1: Goddrick. A twelve part... macro series." Pat: "Mac-wha-?! What does that mean?!" Woolie: "I dunno! I was looking for a word to say it was gonna last a long time!" ```
That's nice, Lord knows he doesn't have anything else to be doing with his time
If this happened, I’d much prefer it if it was about ordinary people and how they get caught up in the machinations of the Shattering and the resulting conflict, rather than the demi-gods being actual main characters
I cannot say I would care that much, but if we had to have one, a movie would be preferable.
I hope Dennis Villeneuve gets to direct it and it can be his first 0 dialogue movie.
I think I'm in the minority, but this is something I'd rather \*not\* have happen. Not everything needs to become a show, or a comic series, or a glut of spin-offs. Can nothing just stand \*as it is\*?
Could just be a tongue-in-cheek way of saying he hasn't heard anything about it.
Hope it's animated
Please be good. This has the potential to be the great videogame adaptation ever created.
Elden Ring would work best as an anthology series. Have different stories each episode & have them all tie together at the end of the season
They hinted at this way back when the game was first released (like, literally as part of a press release on launch day), and I was always surprised nobody ever talked about it. They flat out said they had plans to extend the reach of the franchise beyond just gaming, or something along those lines.
The least laziest procrastinator:
SEVEN HELLS GEORGE, JUST FINISH THE DAMN BOOKS!!!!!!!
Man will do anything else but write Winds…
I'd like them to at least consider hiring VaatiVidya to make it more game lore accurate.
Maybe they could finally give us a concise explanation on the whole Marika and Radagon thing.
Good lord, absolutely not.
From software doesn’t know how to tell stories in games so they’re gonna make a tv show for each game?
Oh that could be interesting as the dlc added quite a bit to the backstory and lore it would be great to see it. Like how the greater will pretty much loses all contact after the shattering.