The Movie Watch
Every announcement, casting update, filming detail, poster, trailer and review about the Elden Ring film - in one place. Confirmed facts, rumours and speculation are always labelled separately, and confirmed facts are sourced.
Report: Iceland Shoot Wraps Successfully After 14 Days at Six Locations
Icelandic press (via mbl.is) reported that the film's Iceland leg had wrapped successfully earlier in the month, after 14 shooting days across six locations - including Hnausapollar, Háifoss and the Vatnajökull National Park area near Ófærufoss - with around 150 crew at peak, dozens of local extras, and both Ben Whishaw and Kit Connor on site. It's the most recent confirmed production news as of this writing.
Source: Daily Northern, via mbl.is
Peter Serafinowicz Explains the Chance Meeting That Got Him Cast
On Russell Howard's Five Brilliant Things podcast, Peter Serafinowicz - a familiar voice to Soulsborne fans from his FromSoftware voice work, including Mild-Mannered Pate in Dark Souls II - explained how he ended up in the film: he met Alex Garland by chance, who already recognised his voice work, and left his contact details before later being cast. His actual role in the film remains unrevealed.
Source: ScreenRant
On the Ground in North Wales: Filming Spotted at Dinorwic Quarry and Two Castles
Local paper the Daily Post / North Wales Live reported eyewitness filming activity "in stifling heat" at Dinorwic Quarry, Dolbadarn Castle and Conwy Castle - all dramatic, ruin-and-stone locations that line up neatly with the Lands Between's own look. It's some of the most concrete, verifiable filming-location reporting to come out of the whole shoot.
Source: Daily Post / North Wales Live
Release Date and IMAX Format Confirmed: March 3, 2028
Alongside the cast reveal, A24 and Bandai Namco confirmed the film is scheduled for a March 3, 2028 US theatrical release, and that it is being shot specifically for the IMAX format.
Source: Deadline
Full Cast Announced
Almost a year after the initial announcement, the film's full cast was revealed: Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman, Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Emma Laird, Peter Serafinowicz and Jonathan Pryce. No character names or roles were announced alongside the cast, so any casting-to-character theories are speculation until confirmed otherwise - see our Movie Theories & Predictions board for the community's best guesses.
Source: Variety
Report: Iceland Filming Planned for Summer 2026
Ahead of the main UK shoot even wrapping, Icelandic outlet mbl.is reported that part of the production would film in Iceland later that summer. It lined up with the film's already-confirmed, landscape-driven approach to the Lands Between - and was later confirmed to have actually happened, see the Iceland wrap report below.
Source: Iceland Review
Principal Photography Begins in the UK
Filming began in the UK in mid-April 2026, with reported locations across Scotland and North Wales, including Dinorwic Quarry, Dolbadarn Castle and Conwy Castle - all locations well suited to the game's ruined-castle, mountain-and-quarry aesthetic. Substantial studio-built sets were also constructed at Greenwich Naval College in South London. Additional filming in Iceland was planned for summer 2026. The shoot was reported to run roughly 100 days, with a budget described as "well over $100 million."
Source: World of Reel / Deadline
The New Yorker: Garland Wrote an Unsolicited Script and Flew to Japan to Pitch Miyazaki
A New Yorker profile of Alex Garland revealed just how hard he pushed to land this job: he reportedly approached A24 himself, then wrote a 160-page script plus 40 pages of visual reference material entirely on spec - before anyone had agreed to anything - and personally flew to Japan to pitch Hidetaka Miyazaki in person, who ultimately signed off on the project. It's a rare, detailed look at how an adaptation this closely guarded actually got made.
Alex Garland Reveals He's on His Seventh Elden Ring Playthrough
Promoting an unrelated film, director Alex Garland told IGN he was already deep into the game he'd been hired to adapt - "I'm now on my seventh playthrough of that game" - and named Malenia, Blade of Miquella as the boss still giving him trouble: "I just throw myself at them again, and again, and again, and again." A small detail, but a reassuring one for fans wondering whether the director actually plays the source material.
Source: IGN, via Dexerto
Producers Confirmed
Alongside the director announcement, the film's producing team was confirmed as Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich (Garland's regular collaborators at DNA Films), Peter Rice, and - notably for fans of the source material - George R. R. Martin and Vince Gerardis, both credited as producers on the film.
Source: Wikipedia
A24 Announces Elden Ring Film, Alex Garland to Write and Direct
A film adaptation of Elden Ring was confirmed to be in development at A24, with Alex Garland (Civil War, Annihilation, Ex Machina) attached to write and direct. It was the first official confirmation that a film adaptation was happening at all.
Source: Wikipedia / Deadline
Miyazaki: "I Don't See Any Reason to Deny" a Movie Adaptation
Long before A24 got involved, FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki was asked directly whether an Elden Ring movie could ever happen. Speaking to The Guardian, he said he wouldn't rule it out - "I don't see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example... there's interest, for sure" - while cautioning that FromSoftware itself doesn't have the film-making skills to do it alone and would need "a very strong partner." It's the earliest on-record hint that a film was even being discussed, nearly a year before A24 was confirmed.
Source: The Guardian, via GamesRadar+