New details have come to light about A24’s Elden Ring movie, including how Amazon could be involved and its beefy runtime.
According to Deadline, Amazon MGM is buying up the Elden Ring movie’s Pay-1 streaming rights for numerous international markets in a deal potentially worth “tens of millions of dollars.” The site reported that there could be “interesting activations” on Amazon’s Twitch platform as part of the deal. A Pay-1 rights deal means the company gets exclusive rights to broadcast a movie after it ends its theatrical run and comes to home video.
Netflix, for example, paid Sony billions of dollars for a Pay-1 deal that includes the live-action Zelda movie. That was a global deal for many movies, though, and the report said Amazon MGM is booking an international deal specifically for the Elden Ring movie. It remains to be seen where the Elden Ring movie could stream after it wraps up in theaters.
The Elden Ring movie finished filming earlier this year and Industrial Light & Magic is now working on post-production efforts ahead of the movie’s March 2028 release in theaters.
The film is based on From Software’s game and was written and directed by Alex Garland, but the story details are being kept secret. Kit Connor is playing the lead, and the movie will apparently feature “battles between his character and impressive monsters and dragons.”
The script is so secretive that A24 is reportedly booking flights for its staffers to potential international rights-buyers instead of sending the script digitally to ensure an A24 staffer is in the room as the script is being read. Additionally, the report said the script is at least 180 pages, meaning the film could stretch to a mighty three hours.
It was also reported that Elden Ring could become a movie franchise if the film does well, but no sequel plans are officially set yet.
In addition to Connor, the Elden Ring movie will star Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Tom Burke, Jonathan Pryce, and Nick Offerman.
Finally, the Deadline report backed up the earlier rumor that the Elden Ring movie cost as much as $200 million to produce, making it A24’s most expensive film ever.
