Elden Ring Movie Director Alex Garland Is on His 7th Playthrough of the Game, Reveals His Toughest Boss

Director of the upcoming Elden Ring Movie, Alex Garland, is connected his seventh playthrough of FromSoftware's epic phantasy RPG, and has revealed the brag helium recovered the toughest to instrumentality down.

Speaking to IGN up of the merchandise 28 Years Later — the zombie apocalypse movie helium has written 23 years connected from penning the archetypal movie successful the franchise — the Ex Machina and Civil War manager revealed which of each of the famed foes successful Elden Ring that helium has settled connected being the astir difficult: Malenia, Blade of Miquella.

“It's Malenia who's the pugnacious one”, Garland explained. “I'm present connected my seventh playthrough of that game. I've leveled up, I've got tons of juice, and a chill sword, and worldly similar that, and I conscionable propulsion myself astatine them again, and again, and again, and again.”

“That was the method I learned with Dark Souls," helium continued. “It's not that you get better, it's much similar monkeys and typewriters. You conscionable support doing it, and eventually, 1 time they're dead.”

But it turns out, Garland ne'er had rather the occupation with Starscourge Radahn, alternatively offering his precise ain crippled assistance usher connected however to instrumentality down the gravity magic-harnessing horseman.

“Radahn's truly easy”, stated Garland. “I thought Radahn was rather easy, due to the fact that arsenic agelong arsenic you benignant of activated the radical who tin assistance you successful that fight, they get connected with warring him, and they instrumentality disconnected immoderate it is, fractional his energy, and you decorativeness him off. It's each astir activating those small summon signs dotted around.”

Can we expect either of these bosses to look successful A24's upcoming Elden Ring movie adaptation? Well, arsenic you whitethorn expect, Garland gave america nary details connected what helium plans to bash with the project. Indeed, we cognize adjacent to thing astir the Elden Ring movie, which is successful the works from Garland arsenic writer and director, Elden Ring steadfast Bandai Namco, and A24. Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin, who helped make the archetypal Elden Ring, is attached arsenic a shaper connected the movie, arsenic is Vince Gerardis. DNA’s Peter Rice volition besides produce, on with Andrew Macdonald and Allon Reich from DNA. There’s nary connection yet connected however progressive FromSoftware oregon crippled manager Hidetaka Miyazaki volition be.

What bash you deliberation the communicative of the Elden Ring movie should be? I, for one, deliberation it would beryllium astute to tackle a prequel based connected the events of The Shattering, alternatively than the communicative of the crippled itself. Got your ain idea? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.