George R. R. Martin has teased the possibility of an Elden Ring movie more strongly than ever before, yet he has also highlighted a significant hurdle to his potential involvement in such a project. As the mastermind behind the lore and world of FromSoftware's Elden Ring, which became one of the top-selling games of 2022, Martin's contribution was prominently featured in the game's promotion and credits, which acknowledge both him and FromSoftware's Hidetaka Miyazaki for creating the Elden Ring universe.
During IGN Fan Fest 2025, when asked about his interest in a sequel to Elden Ring, Martin cleverly sidestepped the question but hinted at the potential for 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 dropped hints about an Elden Ring film. Hidetaka Miyazaki, president of FromSoftware, 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 admitted to IGN that his involvement in an Elden Ring movie might be limited due to his ongoing work on "The Winds of Winter," the long-awaited sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. "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."
The wait for "The Winds of Winter" has been agonizing for fans, stretching over a decade since the release of "A Dance With Dragons" in 2011, the same year HBO debuted the immensely popular "Game of Thrones" series, which brought even more attention to Martin's fantasy world. 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. 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!"
As for his contributions to Elden Ring, Martin detailed his role in worldbuilding to 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 asked if all his written material was used in the game or if there's 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."
