Alex Garland’s Elden Ring has felt like one of those projects that barely needed a hard sell the second it was announced. The game is already a worldwide sensation with a massive fanbase, and Garland — whose experience in the last decade with horror, sci-fi and extremely weird cinema makes him the perfect fit — is leading from the front. Now the adaptation has taken a major step forward. A24 and Bandai Namco have officially set a release date for the film and confirmed it will be filmed for IMAX, while also unveiling the full cast as production gets underway this spring.

The live-action Elden Ring will open in theaters on March 3, 2028, with Garland writing and directing. The original film project was first officially announced in May 2025, when Bandai Namco and A24 confirmed Garland’s involvement and revealed that the adaptation would be based on FromSoftware’s hugely successful 2022 game, which has shipped more than 30 million units worldwide. Filming is now underway in the UK, which lines up with the latest production update.

Who Stars in ‘Elden Ring’?

The cast is stacked, and for this one the names alone do a lot of the work. Elden Ring stars Kit Connor (Warfare, Heartstopper), Ben Whishaw (Peter Hujar’s Day, This Is Going to Hurt), Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus, Civil War), Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Black Bag), Havana Rose Liu (Tuner, Bottoms), Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina), Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, The Crown), Ruby Cruz (Bottoms, The Threesome), Nick Offerman (The Last of Us, Margo’s Got Money Troubles), John Hodgkinson (Dear England, Napoleon), Jefferson Hall (House of the Dragon, Oppenheimer), Emma Laird (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, A Haunting in Venice), and Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace).

The film is being produced by Peter Rice alongside Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA, with George R.R. Martin and Vince Gerardis also producing after Martin helped build the game’s mythological backstory. FromSoftware‘s previous titles like Dark Souls and Bloodborne were well received but very dense and not considered the most accessible for casual players. Martin was approached and given the freedom to design the backstory and with world building, a job he accomplished with some aplomb.

There’s still a lot we don’t know about how Garland plans to tackle the Lands Between on screen, but this update makes one thing very clear: Elden Ring is coming.

via Collider