"Elden Ring Movie in Talks, Martin's Involvement Limited: IGN Fan Fest 2025"

George R. R. Martin has dropped the strongest hint yet that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon, while also acknowledging a significant hurdle to his potential involvement. The mastermind behind the Game of Thrones series played a pivotal role in crafting the rich world and history of FromSoftware's Elden Ring, which emerged as one of the top-selling games of 2022. Both FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have prominently featured Martin's contributions in their marketing efforts, with the game's credits highlighting that the Elden Ring universe was co-created by FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin.

When asked by IGN during IGN Fan Fest 2025 about his interest in returning for a sequel, Martin skillfully dodged the question about Elden Ring 2, but tantalizingly suggested that an Elden Ring movie might be in development. "Well, I can't say too much about it, but there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring," Martin revealed.

This isn't the first time Martin has hinted at an Elden Ring adaptation. FromSoftware's president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has expressed openness to the idea of an Elden Ring movie, but emphasized the need for a "very strong partner" to bring such a project to life. In an interview with The Guardian, Miyazaki stated, "I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example. But I don’t think myself, or FromSoftware, have the knowledge or ability to produce something in a different medium. So that’s where a very strong partner would come into play. We’d have to build a lot of trust and agreement on whatever it is we’re trying to achieve, but there’s interest, for sure."

However, Martin told IGN that his ongoing work on The Winds of Winter might limit his involvement in any Elden Ring movie project. "We'll see if that [the Elden Ring movie] comes to pass and what the extent of my involvement was, I don't know," he said. "I'm a few years behind with my latest book, so that also limits the amount of things that I can do."

Fans of Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series have been eagerly awaiting the sixth book, The Winds of Winter, for over a decade. Martin himself has acknowledged the prolonged delay, stating in December, "Unfortunately, I am 13 years late. Every time I say that, I’m [like], ‘How could I be 13 years late?’ I don’t know, it happens a day at a time. But that’s still a priority. A lot of people are already writing obituaries for me. [They’re saying] ‘Oh, he’ll never be finished.’ Maybe they’re right. I don’t know. I’m alive right now! I seem pretty vital!"

The wait for The Winds of Winter has been increasingly disheartening, especially since the last installment, A Dance With Dragons, was released in 2011—the same year HBO launched the wildly successful Game of Thrones series, which brought even more attention to Martin's fantasy world of Westeros.

As for Elden Ring, Martin shared insights into his worldbuilding process with FromSoftware. "When they came to me, FromSoftware, they wanted the world. They knew the action of Elden Ring that the players would get into would be in the ‘present.’ But something had created that present, had created that world. So where did that world come from? And I've done a lot of world building, most notably on Westeros and the backgrounds of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones. And I like doing world building. So what had happened 5,000, 10,000 years before the current day action in Elden Ring that led them to that place? And I had some ideas about the magic and the runes. There was a lot about runes. And I worked it all out. It was interesting that the team flew in and we had a number of sessions and they would fly back and do their magic, and then they would come back here a couple months later and show me what they had, which was always amazing to see what they came up with."

When questioned about whether all his written material was used in the game, Martin noted that there is often more to a world than what appears on screen. "Yeah, I think especially when you're world building, there's always more that you actually see on the screen. And that's true of any of these big epic fantasies. I mean, you look at Tolkien and there are hundreds of pages of past history before you get to even the era of the Hobbit and dozens of kings and wars and things like that."