George R. R. Martin has dropped the most tantalizing hint yet that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon. The mastermind behind the intricate world of FromSoftware's Elden Ring, which became one of the top-selling games of 2022, has previously worked closely with FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki to craft the game's rich lore. FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have highlighted Martin's role extensively in their marketing, crediting him alongside Miyazaki for creating the game's universe.
During IGN Fan Fest 2025, when asked about potential involvement in a sequel to Elden Ring, Martin sidestepped the question about a sequel but hinted strongly at the possibility of an Elden Ring movie. "Well, I can't say too much about it, but there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring," he revealed.
This isn't the first time Martin has teased an Elden Ring movie. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of FromSoftware, has also expressed openness to an adaptation, emphasizing the need for a "very strong partner" to bring the project to life. "I don’t see any reason to deny another interpretation or adaptation of Elden Ring, a movie for example," Miyazaki told The Guardian. "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 acknowledged a significant hurdle to his involvement in any Elden Ring movie project: his ongoing work on The Winds of Winter. "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 told IGN. "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 Winds of Winter, the sixth installment, for over a decade. Martin himself has acknowledged the delays, 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." Despite the long wait, Martin remains committed to the project, saying, "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 anticipation for The Winds of Winter has been building since the release of A Dance With Dragons in 2011, the same year HBO launched the immensely popular Game of Thrones series, which brought even more attention to Martin's fantasy universe.
Martin also shared insights into his role in creating the world of Elden Ring, explaining to IGN how he worked with FromSoftware on the game's backstory. "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."
He described the collaborative process, noting, "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 asked if all of his material was used in the game or if there's more that could be utilized in future projects, Martin responded, "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."
