Alex Garland's Elden Ring Film: Cast, Release Date, & IMAX Filming

0:00It's April 20th. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News. Today, AI powered stories from the spotlight. Big news from A24 and Band-Inamco, Alex Garland is adapting the smash-hit video game Elden Ring into a live-action film. He's writing and directing, with production kicking off this year and the release locked for March 3rd, 2028. The cast is stacked, featuring Kit Connor, Ben Wishaw, Kylie Spaney, and Nick Offerman right up front. That game crushed it, selling over 30 million copies worldwide and snagging more than 400 game of the year awards. It's built on a myth, cooked up by George R.R. Martin, and from software boss, Heetataka Miyazaki, dropping players into a shattered fantasy world as, customizable warriors chasing a broken ring of power. Fans are buzzing hard over this, especially since Garland's a die-hard Elden Ring player, who pitched it straight to the publishers himself. His track record and dark fantasy in sci-fi speaks volumes, think 28 days later, ex-Machina,

1:04annihilation, and his latest like Civil War. More cast just drop too. Tom Burke, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan Price, and a bunch more heavy hitters like Jefferson Hall from House of the Dragon, filming's gear for IMAX to capture that epic scale. Eyes are on spring 2026, when cameras roll, promising to bring the lands between to life and ways gamers never saw coming.