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inb4 Jack Black as John Tarnished
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Unless they hand it over to someone like Villeneuve or Cosmatos (would've loved David Lynch's Elden Ring, but here we are...), someone who could turn it into a tryppy, moody piece, I don't know what to think about the project.
Edit: omg, I'm dumb, that's the guy who did Ex Machina and Annihilation. Ok, this is VERY different!
Yeah, I’d say that’s a good fit for Elden Ring.
Well, they are two of the most action-packed and meditative movies I've ever seen, I'd attibute those two characteristics to Elden Ring as well, easily:))
I'm just very skeptical about video game movie adaptations in general, so I'm not holding my breath for this to turn out good.
The Last of Us series seems pretty good so far as a huge fan of the games, haven't finishing watching season 1 yet, so maybe there's a chance for this to turn out ok? Then again, I'm just wondering what they'll make the plot revolve around since most of it is very implicitly told through environmental storytelling, side quests, item descriptions and whatnot. Plus a lot of combat which probably wouldn't translate over too well into a movie or series.
I, too, am reticent when it comes down to vidya adaptations, but in this case I genuinely think the Tarnished's story can't be told in any other form than through the video game. I expect them to be aware of this, at least on some level, and to set the movie to run in parallel, or be a vertical slice of a part of the story, maybe even depict the things which happened before the Tarnished got started on their way.
I don't see a coherent way to compress all of that gameplay into a "static" narrative, either... And it's essential to the story itself, it's the primary method through which the story is told, you get to know the characters through fighting them, mostly. And then you have the physical journey itself, it'd be a mess to compress that huge schlep into a two-hour film, it'd come out twitchier than LoTR all in all...
It may work if serialised, but it'd need a good couple of seasons to cover everything...