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

George R. R. Martin, the mastermind behind the world of Game of Thrones, has teased fans with the strongest hint yet that an Elden Ring movie could be on the horizon. Martin, who collaborated with FromSoftware to create the intricate world and history of the critically acclaimed 2022 game Elden Ring, shared his thoughts during IGN Fan Fest 2025. While he sidestepped questions about a sequel to the game, he couldn't help but drop a tantalizing hint about a potential film adaptation.

"Well, I can't say too much about it, but there is some talk about making a movie out of Elden Ring," Martin revealed. This isn't the first time he's hinted at such a project, and FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has also expressed openness to the idea, provided a "very strong partner" is involved. In an interview with The Guardian, Miyazaki elaborated, "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."

However, Martin acknowledged a significant obstacle to his deep involvement in the potential Elden Ring movie: 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," Martin told IGN. "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, with the last book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, published back in 2011—the same year HBO debuted the wildly successful Game of Thrones series. Martin has been candid about the delays, admitting 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!”

When discussing his contributions to Elden Ring, Martin explained to IGN how he helped 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 also shared insights into 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 his work was used in the game or if there was more material for 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."