Elden Ring Movie Discussed, Martin's Involvement Limited - IGN Fan Fest 2025

George R. R. Martin has tantalizingly hinted that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon, yet he acknowledges a significant obstacle that might limit his involvement in such a project. The celebrated author, renowned for crafting the intricate world of FromSoftware’s Elden Ring—one of the top-selling games of 2022—has been heavily featured in the game's promotional efforts. The credits of Elden Ring proudly state that the game's universe was co-created by FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki and Martin himself.

During IGN Fan Fest 2025, when asked about his potential involvement in a sequel to Elden Ring, Martin cleverly sidestepped the topic of a sequel but dropped a significant hint about a possible movie adaptation. "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 the idea of an Elden Ring movie. FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has also expressed openness to the concept, provided they collaborate with a "very strong partner." Miyazaki noted in an interview with The Guardian, "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’s potential heavy involvement in the Elden Ring movie faces a significant challenge: his ongoing work on The Winds of Winter. In his conversation with IGN, he admitted, "We'll see if that [the Elden Ring movie] comes to pass and what the extent of my involvement was, I don't know. I'm a few years behind with my latest book, so that also limits the amount of things that I can do."

Fans eagerly awaiting the next installment in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter, have faced delays spanning over a decade. Martin himself has expressed frustration over 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. 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 continues to grow, with the last book, A Dance With Dragons, released in 2011—the same year HBO debuted the wildly popular Game of Thrones series, based on Martin's novels, significantly boosting the profile of the Westeros universe.

Regarding his contribution to Elden Ring, Martin elaborated on his role in worldbuilding, telling IGN, "… 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 queried about whether all his written material was used in the game, Martin suggested there might be more to explore in future projects, stating, "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."