George R. R. Martin Discusses Potential Elden Ring Movie at IGN Fan Fest 2025

George R. R. Martin, the creative mind behind the world of FromSoftware's blockbuster game Elden Ring, has dropped the strongest hint yet that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon. However, he also acknowledged a significant hurdle that might limit his involvement in the project: his ongoing work on the long-awaited novel, The Winds of Winter.

Martin's collaboration with FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco on Elden Ring, which became one of the best-selling games of 2022, was prominently featured in the game's promotional materials. The credits of Elden Ring even state that the world was co-created by FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin himself.

During IGN Fan Fest 2025, when asked about his potential involvement in a sequel to Elden Ring, Martin sidestepped the question about a game follow-up but tantalizingly hinted at the possibility of a 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's president, Hidetaka Miyazaki, has also expressed openness to an adaptation, provided a "very strong partner" is involved. 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's potential involvement in an Elden Ring movie is complicated by his commitment to finishing The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Speaking to IGN, Martin said, "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."

The Winds of Winter has been eagerly anticipated by fans for over a decade, with the last book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, released in 2011—the same year HBO's Game of Thrones premiered, bringing even more attention to Martin's fantasy world. In December, Martin acknowledged the delays, saying, "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!"

Martin also shared insights into his worldbuilding process for Elden Ring during the IGN interview. He explained how FromSoftware approached him to create the backstory and history that shaped the game's world. "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."

Martin described the collaborative process with FromSoftware, 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 his written material was used in the game, 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."