Elden Ring Movie director has already made the best video game film

A rumored one Elden ring The film became a little more reality on Thursday evening when Bandai Namco announced that Alex Garland (Civil warPresent Ex Machina) should lead a film adaptation of the from software action role-playing games for indie studio Darling A24. George RR Martin, Game Director Hidetaka Miyazaki with a dark mythological basis for the original game, will serve as a producer for the film.

Girland could look like a strange choice for Elden ring Based on his filmography; The author director has never done a fantasy epic, and he also did not found the kind of medieval struggle that would make him an obvious decision to bring Miyazaki's hard boss fights to live action. But Garland's “Gamer Cred” is undeniable and an understanding of the game is the core for a large part of his work. Take hot time: I would say his film in 2012 Dredd is the biggest video game film that is not really based on a video game that has ever been made.

Garland began as a novelist before turning on the script and director, and made his gaming inspirations known throughout his career. He said that his time zombie dogs in resident Evil was the direct inspiration for the fast zombies in 28 days laterWhat he wrote for director Danny Boyle. When he and Boyle teamed up to adapt Garland's own novel, The beachThe collaboration led to what we will ever achieve with Leonardo DiCaprio's Banjo-kazooie Film.

Depart in 2005 28 days laterThe success, Garland was commissioned by Microsoft with adaptation halo In a feature film – a project that stood on a shelf for so long and put on a shelf that streaming television was invented and halo Instead, a decent Paramount Plus show. He also worked on actual video games: he worked with Ninja Theory and Bandai Namco at 2010's Enslaved: Odyssey in the westAnd it served as a story supervisor at 2013's DMC: devil can cry. At some point at this time he played and fell hard for it The last of us. (In fact, Garland thinks thinks Smooth Is better than 28 days laterBut hey, none of us is right with everything.)

Garland's taste is on the menu -in 2020 he kept aggressive how the rest of us maintain an animal crossing island -but its visible influences are aimed at AAA action experience. His adaptation of Jeff Vandermeers destruction Has the pace and the encounters of an open world game. His FX show developer Seems exactly the alley of everyone who is addicted Deus ex or control Vibes. Both Civil war and his film 2025 War Bring the audience closer to the type of tactical military action that we rarely see in films, but that's about all multiplayer shooters. But for my money his translation of video game aesthetics and experience in cinematic form passed with Dredd.

Written and produced by Garland and technically staged by Pete Travis (Viewpoint), Dredd Lies the classic 2000 AD Comic -antiheld, played by The boys'Karl Urban, in a The raid-Esque action scenario: In order to stop violent drug lord (Lena Heady), the judge has to break his way through 200 stories of a highly bound mega-city highhouse. Between the SLO-MO effects, which were induced by the illegal medication (adequately referred to “Slo-Mo”) and the psychological skills of Dredds Sidekick Cassandra Dredd is a dizzying selection of action beats that plunge the audience into a ball hell without using an exciting shooting from the first person.

According to all, the production of Dredd Was a lively experience for everyone involved, with the studio lost enough trust in Travis that Garland remained for the entire shoot and supervised the processing. Urban even claims that Garland actually “staged the film”. When you see it, this makes sense-the SLO-MO effects feel especially like a bullet time mechanic and not like a complete acid trip.

Will make the garland a great one Elden ring Film? What does it look like? The good news is that he has probably thought about it as a fan of from -soft games for years. In interviews over the years, the filmmaker Dark Souls described as a certain favorite franchise and even offered an explanation for why an adaptation is such a challenge.

“Dark Souls' games seem to have this embedded poetry,” said Garland in 2020 to Gamespot. “You will walk around and find a strange piece of dialogue with a kind of broken song with a little armor outside a door, and it feels like you are used up in an existential dream. […] I can't imagine what that would be like [be adapted]. The quality that Dark Souls makes special is probably unique for video games. “

The Joy Garland finds not far from what is away in Dark Souls games Elden ring Offers him as a director – in the end a successful adaptation will be used with a mood and pace and some evil fights. That's what Dredd Nails, even without a game as an actual source material. Dredd breeds without relying on too much exposure. Cassandra's essential psychological powers thread a little innocence and mood into a heavy metal dystopia. The action is brutally so far that it often feels like a horror film (a style girland War).

“Elden ring From the man who brought us Dredd“Makes a lot of sense. Now you will find an actor with eight arms …