A24’s adaptation of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s video game Elden Ring, its most ambitious feature movie project to date, has rounded out its cast as it begins production.
Tom Burke, Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan Pryce, Ruby Cruz, John Hodgkinson, Jefferson Hall, Emma Laird and Peter Serafinowicz have been added to the call sheet, which already includes Kit Connor, Ben Whishaw and Cailee Spaeny. Nick Offerman is also in the cast.
Alex Garland, who wrote and directed Civil War, which held the title as A24’s most expensive production for a spell before being supplanted by Marty Supreme, wrote the script and is directing the production, which gets underway this week in the U.K. The production also puts Garland back on top for navigating A24’s largest and most ambitious project. Sources say the budget is well over $100 million and will be around 100 days of principal photography.
A24 has set a March 3, 2028, theatrical release for Elden Ring.
Based on a mythological story written by The Games of Throne author George R. R. Martin and developed by FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, Elden Ring is a dark fantasy role-playing game that allows users to explore a fantasy world that includes dragons, beasts, castles and dungeons.
The plot of the game, which takes place in a mythical realm known as the Lands Between, revolves around the Elden Ring, a powerful artifact that has been shattered, plunging the Lands Between into war and chaos. The player is tasked with restoring the Elden Ring.
Character details were not revealed.
Since its release in 2022, it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and received over 400 Game of the Year awards, per Bandai Namco.
Burke appeared in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and Black Bag and is repped by WME, B-Side and Entertainment 360.
Liu will next be seen in John Carney’s Power Ballad with Nick Jonas and appeared in Lurker and Oh.What. Fun. She is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content and Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
Mizuno made an impression with her appearance in Garland’s feature directorial debut, Ex Machina, and is one of the stars of HBO’s House of the Dragon. She is repped by WME, The Way and Goodman Genow.
Veteran actor Pryce played Prince Philip in Netflix’s The Crown and appeared in the streamer’s hit murder mystery Thursday Night Murder Club. He is repped by Anonymous Content and Julian Belfrage Associates.
Cruz was one of the stars of Disney+ and Lucasfilm’s short-lived Willow series and recently did a stint on Apple TV’s For All Mankind. She is repped by Gersh and Landsburg Management.
Hodgkinson, repped by Independent Talent Group, appeared in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, while Hall played a Lannister in House of the Dragon and had a part in Oppenheimer. Hall is repped by Paradigm, Alchemy Entertainment, Denton-Brierley and Jackoway Tyerman.
Laird, who was one of the stars of Mayor of Kingstown, worked with Garland on the two 28 Years Later movies. She is repped by CAA, Anonymous Content, United Agents and Yorn Levine.
Serafinowicz starred as the titular hero in The Tick, Amazon Prime’s reboot of the cult comic book, and appeared in Guardians of the Galaxy and John Wick: Chapter 2. He is repped by UTA, Curtis Brown and 3 Arts.
