“I’ll soon birth thee anew.” — Alex Garland

I'm sure they'll fuck it up.

Name one good (serious) videogame movie. One.

The original Mortal Kombat movie. The newest Sonic movie was also pretty good imo.

But yes, this can probably go very wrong.

There is a plot?

Normally I'd agree, but it being A24 makes me very hopeful.

Can you make a movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni's Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?

Street Fighter. It's fantastically bad.

It's not a movie, but the Fallout series had a great first season, and I'm looking forward to the second.

Alex Garland has made some pretty good movies, so there's a chance. I thought his instincts with annihilation were pretty much spot on. But yeah, movies based on games do not have a great track record.

Video game movies have a chance of being good, they are almost always trash with a slim chance of being good. For a game with a lot of lore and no plot, the chance of being good is close to zero.

Maybe a miracle will happen.

I wonder it is going to be THE Elden Ring story or An Elden Ring story, a small contained story in the Elden Ring world could fly really well, bonus points if Patches kicks the protagonist off a cliff.

my preference would be a film about the shattering, giving us some (but not too much) more insight into just what fucked the world up so godsdamned much.

but that would need to be extremely faithful to the lore and character designs and i just don't see hollywood showing up for that.

First, it's A24 and they put out amazing movies .

Second, Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros Movie, and I'm not sure if it would count, but Wreck It Ralph are all good video game movies.

What… uh… I can’t imagine this movie being weird enough to feel like a movie based on a FROMSOFT game while still being accessible to the wide audience needed for a big budget fantasy movie to make money.

Super Mario Bros. (1993) was a cult classic.

The 2023 movie is forgettable garbage.

The Sonic movies are fun though. Knuckles TV as well.

I kind of hate Elden Ring. I've played plenty of these games, but I've died easily like 2 or 3 times more here. And, more often than ever, I don't know what to do next, which is easily compensated with another couple of deaths. Nah, I will never watch this.

Silent Hill

Sorry, best we can do is having the audience dodge roll every scene.

Its funny in this case because not "fucking it up" effectively means making a movie that's barely related to the game outside of the basic setting.