Alex Garland Eyeing Kit Connor Reunion On Elden Ring Movie

To become the Elden Lord in FromSoftware’s hard-as-nails fantasy game Elden Ring takes some solemn kit: we’re talking Blasphemous Blades, Golden Greatshields, and other such alliterative wares. To become the Elden Lord in Alex Garland’s upcoming live-action Elden Ring movie for A24 however might take another kind of kit entirely. Namely, Kit Connor. Yes, according to Deadline, Garland could be looking to reunite with his Warfare star as he prepares to venture into the Lands Between.

Now, with this scoop coming from Deadline‘s ‘The Dish’ sidebar, we would as ever advise all to take this news with a well pinch of salt. However, if the trade’s sources are exact, while the state of negotiations and the existence of any formal offer from studio to prospective star is unknown, apparently Garland has already held talks with Connor. What’s more, it sounds like talks are at least at a solemn enough stage for potential scheduling conflicts to be in the ironing out process, though A24 officially has yet to comment on Deadline‘s story. Still, the prospect of Connor continuing to branch out after having burst onto the scene in Netflix’s queer YA favourite Heartstopper is a tantalising one, and in Warfare the adolescent actor more than showed his capacity to act as a guide into a world we can barely even comprehend.

It remains to be seen how exactly writer-director Garland will approach bringing Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin’s expansive world of mythic runes, Tarnished, demigods, and dragons to the massive screen — but if Connor is in the frame to star, then perhaps a good old-fashioned epic hero’s quest (with added octopus helmets) awaits? Only time will tell. For now, we’ve got Nightreign to play on Friday, and the prospect of Soulsplaining Elden Ring to maidenless movie lovers for the next however many years to look forward to. Now, who wants to hear the story of the Eternal Queen of the Lands Between, Marilka?