Alex Garland wanted the Elden Ring movie so badly he wrote a 160-page script, plus 40 pages of visuals, entirely on spec. Then he flew to Japan to pitch Hidetaka Miyazaki in person. No studio sent him. He had no rights. He just showed up with 200 pages.
Video game adaptations usually start with a studio optioning the IP and handing it to a director who never played the game. Fans can smell it in the first trailer. This one started with the director spending months writing for free, then begging for permission.
A24 broke its own model to back him. Their previous budget records were Marty Supreme at $90M and The Smashing Machine at around $70M. Elden Ring came in well over $100 million, the most expensive film in the studio's history, shot across 100 days in the UK and Iceland on native IMAX cameras. Real Welsh castles stood in for the Lands Between.
The source material can carry the bet. The game has shipped over 30 million copies, built on a mythology George R.R. Martin wrote for FromSoftware. Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman, and Jonathan Pryce lead the cast.
Every adaptation director claims to love the source material. Garland wrote 200 pages and bought his own plane ticket before anyone gave him the rights.
El putísimo Loren Juarros mientras el malaguismo está ardiendo con el mercado, las fichas ocupadas y los jugadores que siguen en plantilla a una semana de agosto:
While I'm sweating to shave every second off a fresh Omarchy install (so close to sub 1 minute!!), Windows just casually spends over AN HOUR on a brand new laptop doing god knows what. AND IT COMES PREINSTALLED?? Does anyone at Microsoft give a shit any more?
@pablomc@MalagaCF ENCIMA de haberles perdonado el dinero en covid
ENCIMA de habernos tragado primera rfef y haber apoyado incondicionalmente al equipo
nos hacen pagar putas entradas y dan un servicio de mierda
A todos los malaguistas que llevamos abonados desde años y nos hemos comido el barro y la mierda. No vendáis entradas a aquellos que se suben al barco de ver al equipo de la ciudad en PO, mientras que en el resto del año son del Madrid, Barsa, Atleti u otro, por orgullo.
@JMaquiavello No se ni si verme este vídeo por mucho que me guste Jordi. Me gustaron tanto pero TANTO las dos primeras que no quiero arruinarme nada de Euphoria :(