
Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree is so hot right now that it seems to be all anyone is playing. Considering the incredible 25 million copies the base game sold, it shouldn't be surprising. Perhaps also unsurprising, in light of all those sales, developer FromSoftware said it would be up for translating its tragic story into other media, provided they had some expert help. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed "there's interest" in a potential film or TV adaptation.
That's according to comments made in an interview with The Guardian (thanks VGC), where Miyazaki said: "I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie, for example. 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 trust and agreement on whatever we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure."
Elden Ring's narrative, penned in collaboration with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin, concerns the Tarnished, a people whose ancestors were banished from The Lands Between for losing the light of Grace. Following the breaking of the Elden Ring and the disappearance of Queen Marika the Eternal, the Tarnished are guided home by this lost Grace. Legend says that only one such being can end the stalemate that exists between Marika's demigod children, who fight over the shattered shards of the Elden Ring, locked in a perpetual stalemate, and claim the title of Elden Lord for themselves.
What do you think of an Elden Ring adaptation? Does it sound like something worth exploring? How would such an open-ended game even work in a more traditional form of media? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source theguardian.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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I mean that's why Sony invested in them. So I'm not surprised. Not to mention Kadokawa and Sony make Anime as well. The recent Delicious in Dungeon was a Kadokawa project with opening and ending music provided by Sony Japan.
Conglomerates are weird.
More people would have the opportunity to not understand anything. Unless the lore is better explained than in the game, people will be frustrated.
Give me a gritty, avante garde film produced by A24 and directed by Robert Eggers. Keep it small and abstract, and focus on the storytelling potential of a silent protagonist. Yup.
@Sequel "You must be this height to git gud."
An Elden Ring anime like what Cyberpunk did with an original story would be amazing. I would love them to pursue that rather than a movie. I’m not a big movie guy so I’m being selfish 😂😂😂
"We won't add difficulty settings, accessibility, damage multipliers, health reduction so people of less skill, ability, or a reduced tolerance to put up with our RNG based time wasting BS can experience the worlds we create with less frustration. They must sweat it out and git gud. That is our artistic vision. Also please passively sit on your rear end and watch the self playing film adaptation."
-From Software
Maybe they should sit out happy hour from now on.
Put Henry Cavill on the job!
Not sure this would even be a thing if it didn't have George Martins name involved. Have any other fromsoft games ever been considered? Bloodborne would have made an awesome series but I do think this smells of a quick game of thrones association cash grab..
@ear_wig You’re speaking my language.
I've got to be honest, the writing in From Software games has never been that great. The worldbuilding is interesting but the characters are relatively cliche, even quite one dimensional. They all have singular goals that, most of the time, ends up with them dead or depressed. This isn't mentioning their dialogue, often ending with the same depressed or mechanical laughter.
And most of the characters just seem to be the same archetypes from prior games, often with their story being a mere retelling. Take Alexander the Jar, who is clearly just Siegmeyer from Dark Souls 1.
They need to keep George RR Martin away from this, not because it wouldn't be great but, because i'm still waiting for a book he said would release a decade ago and he needs to crack on with it
I would love an animated show — along the lines of Netflix’s Castlevania or Blood of Zeus — that covers the backstory of the Shattering or maybe even before that. I’d love Ranni to be the main character. Or maybe about the Gloam Eyed Queen vs Marika?
This is why this game needs a true main character! We’ll surely get some generic main who will divide the fanbase and make interacting with other fans an insufferable experience.
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