I'M SO EXCITED! If you know me, you know I've spent an unhealthy amount of hours playing the game and watching lore videos....
OK so if the film is confirmed post-Shattering of the Elden Ring, that already narrows the potential of different stories we could see, in an interesting way.
Because that means weโre not seeing the inciting events directly:
the Night of the Black Knives is already history (Godwynโs soulless corpse spreading Deathroot under the Lands Between),
Queen Marika the Eternal has already shattered the Ring in defiance of the Greater Will,
and Radagon has already failed to reforge it, despite literally being the same being.
So weโre stepping into a world where:
the demigods have Great Runes but canโt assert dominance,
the war between Radahn and Malenia has already reduced Caelid to a Scarlet Rot biome,
the stars are held in stasis,
Leyndell is still standing ONLY because Morgott refuses to let it fall despite being spurned by the Order he defends.
Likeโฆ super thematically dense. Very Elden Ring, as I love!
But thatโs EXACTLY why Iโm leaning toward and hoping for Roundtable Knight Vyke as the protagonist.
Because if you actually follow the item descriptions and environmental storytelling, Vyke isnโt just โa Tarnished who failedโ....heโs the benchmark.
A Dragon Cult knight.
Closest to becoming Elden Lord.
Invited into the inner circle of the Roundtable Hold when it actually meant something.
Which means narratively we could see:
Grace still functioning (barely),
the Two Fingers still attempting to impose order,
and a version of the world that hasnโt fully collapsed into the entropy we explore as players.
And then the turning point, Vyke reaching the Mountaintops, encountering the Three Fingers, and making a conscious rejection of the Golden Order.
Not out of madness at first, but as a philosophical endpoint:
heโs seen the stagnation, the half-death of Godwyn, the rot, the endless war with no victorโฆ
and decides that annihilation (Frenzied Flame) is more honest than repair.
A multi-POV structure could also go insanely hard;
Vykeโs journey and glimpses of:
Rykard willingly being devoured in blasphemy,
Radahn holding back the stars even in madness,
Malenia blooming again and again,
Morgott guarding a throne heโll never be allowed to claim.
I donโt knowโฆ the fact that itโs post-Shattering means weโre dealing with a world thatโs already spiritually dead but physically lingering.
And Vyke is literally the closest thing that world had to a second chance.
If they lean into that tragedy instead of a generic hero arcโฆ this could be so unreal holy shittt.
The live-action movie adaptation of
#ELDENRING, produced by the studio A24 in partnership with Bandai Namco and filmed for IMAX, is slated for release on March 3, 2028.
Production will begin in Spring 2026, and the full cast has been announced. Learn more:
bnent.eu/EldenRingMovie