George R. R. Martin has issued the strongest tease but that an Elden Ring film could come to cross, however has acknowledged a major blocker to his potential involvement with it.
The Game of Thrones creator famously dreamed up the world and historical past of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring, which went on to change into one of many best-selling video games of 2022. FromSoftware and writer Bandai Namco leaned closely on Martin’s involvement in promotional materials, and the sport credit start by saying the Elden Ring world was created by FromSoftware chief Hidetaki Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin.
So, would George R. R. Martin be interested by coming again for a sequel to Elden Ring, if he’s requested? That’s the query IGN put to the person himself as a part of IGN Fan Fest 2025. In his response, Martin sidestepped Elden Ring 2, however did drop a giant trace that an Elden Ring film could possibly be within the works.
“Well, I am unable to say an excessive amount of about it, however there’s some speak about making a film out of Elden Ring,” Martin mentioned.
This isn’t the primary time he’s teased an Elden Ring film. And certainly, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has mentioned he’d be open to an adaptation of Elden Ring, however provided that a “very sturdy associate” have been to come back into play.
“I don’t see any cause to disclaim one other interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a film for instance,” defined Miyazaki in an interview with The Guardian. “But I don’t suppose myself, or FromSoftware, have the data or means to provide one thing in a distinct medium.”
“So that’s the place a really sturdy associate would come into play,” continued Miyazaki. “We’d must construct a number of belief and settlement on no matter it’s we’re making an attempt to realize, however there’s curiosity, for certain.”
However, chatting with IGN, George R. R. Martin acknowledged that there could also be a major blocker to any heavy involvement he could have with the Elden Ring film: he’s nonetheless engaged on The Winds of Winter.
“We’ll see if that [the Elden Ring movie] involves cross and what the extent of my involvement was, I do not know,” he mentioned. “I’m a couple of years behind with my newest ebook, in order that additionally limits the quantity of issues that I can do.”
Fans of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels have lengthy, lengthy, lengthy, awaited the deliberate sixth entry within the sequence, The Winds of Winter. But after greater than a decade of delays, even Martin is acknowledging the likelihood that it might by no means come to be.
In December, Martin mentioned: “Unfortunately, I’m 13 years late. Every time I say that, I’m [like], ‘How might I be 13 years late?’ I don’t know, it occurs a day at a time.”
“But that’s nonetheless a precedence,” he continued. “Lots of people are already writing obituaries for me. [They’re saying] ‘Oh, he’ll by no means be completed.’ Maybe they’re proper. I don’t know. I’m alive proper now! I appear fairly very important!”
It’s solely the newest in what’s been an more and more bleak await The Winds of Winter, with the newest entry within the sequence, A Dance With Dragons, publishing in 2011. That’s the identical 12 months that HBO premiered the insanely widespread TV sequence Game of Thrones, which relies on the A Song of Ice and Fire sequence and drew loads extra eyes to the world of Westeros.
As for Elden Ring, Martin defined his work on the sport, telling IGN how he helped FromSoftware on worldbuilding.
“… after they got here to me, FromSoftware, they needed the world. They knew the motion of Elden Ring that the gamers would get into can be within the ‘current.’ But one thing had created that current, had created that world. So the place did that world come from? And I’ve executed a number of world constructing, most notably on Westeros and the backgrounds of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. And I like doing world constructing. So what had occurred 5,000, 10,000 years earlier than the present day motion in Elden Ring that led them to that place? And I had some concepts in regards to the magic and the runes. There was loads about runes. And I labored all of it out.
“It was fascinating that the crew flew in and we had plenty of classes and they’d fly again and do their magic, after which they might come again right here a pair months later and present me what they’d, which was all the time wonderful to see what they got here up with.”
Was all the pieces Martin wrote used within the sport, or is there extra materials that could possibly be utilized in future installments?
“Yeah, I believe particularly if you’re world constructing, there’s all the time extra that you simply truly see on the display,” Martin replied.
“And that is true of any of those massive epic fantasies. I imply, you take a look at Tolkien and there are tons of of pages of previous historical past earlier than you get to even the period of the Hobbit and dozens of kings and wars and issues like that.”
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