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

George R. R. Martin has given the strongest hint yet that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon, but he also acknowledges a significant obstacle to his involvement in such a project. As the creative mind behind the world and history of FromSoftware's Elden Ring, which became one of 2022's top-selling games, Martin's role was prominently featured in the game's promotional efforts and credits, alongside FromSoftware's chief, Hidetaka Miyazaki.

During IGN Fan Fest 2025, when asked about his potential involvement in a sequel to Elden Ring, Martin sidestepped the question but hinted 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.

George R. R. Martin has hinted that an Elden Ring movie may be in the works. Photo by Amanda Edwards/WireImage.

This isn't the first time Martin has teased the idea of an Elden Ring movie. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of FromSoftware, has also expressed openness to an adaptation, provided it involves a "very strong partner." 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 pointed out a significant barrier to his involvement in an Elden Ring movie: his ongoing work on The Winds of Winter. Speaking to IGN, he 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."

Fans eagerly awaiting The Winds of Winter, the sixth book in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, have faced over a decade of delays. Martin himself acknowledged the situation in December, stating, "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 most recent book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in 2011, the same year HBO debuted the wildly popular Game of Thrones series, which brought even more attention to Martin's fantasy world of Westeros.

Regarding his contribution to Elden Ring, Martin explained to IGN how he assisted FromSoftware with worldbuilding. "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: "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 material was used in the game or if there was more that could be used 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."