Alex Garland’s Elden Ring movie will be released on March 3, 2028, and will star Heartstopper breakout Kit Connor as well as Ben Whishaw, Cailee Spaeny, and Tom Burke, A24 announced Monday.
The full cast also includes Havana Rose Liu, Sonoya Mizuno, Jonathan Pryce, Ruby Cruz, Nick Offerman, and Peter Serafinowicz.
Elden Ring, adapted from the smash hit dark fantasy game by Dark Souls developer FromSoftware, has the “Filmed for IMAX” certification, meaning it will be optimized for, and debut in, IMAX theaters (but won’t be shot with IMAX film cameras).
The announcement comes after reports started to snowball around the construction of sets in the U.K., and casting rumors started to circulate, which have turned out to be accurate. A24 says the movie will begin production in spring 2026 — in other words, now-ish.
The cast features multiple alumni of previous Garland films. Connor was in Warfare, Spaeny starred in his TV show Devs, and alongside Offerman in Civil War, and Mizuno was in Devs and Garland’s debut as writer-director, Ex Machina.
Serafinowicz is the only member of the Elden Ring cast with FromSoftware bona fides, though: He voiced Pate in Dark Souls 2.
Here’s a full breakdown of the announced cast and where you might know them from:
- Kit Connor came to prominence as the lead of Netflix’s sweet queer high-school romance series, Heartstopper
- Ben Whishaw is the voice of Paddington and played Q in the Daniel Craig James Bond movies, and has a ton of TV and film acting credits besides, including the harrowing-but-funny medical drama This is Going to Hurt
- Cailee Spaeny took the lead roles in Alien: Romulus and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, as well as appearing in Civil War and Wake Up Dead Man
- Tom Burke played Praetorian Jack in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, appeared as Orson Welles in David Fincher’s Mank, plays Cormoran Strike in the BBC’s TV adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s Strike detective novels, and starred in the acclaimed arthouse movie The Souvenir and its sequel
- Havana Rose Liu is a model and actor who appeared in Emma Seligman’s riotous comedy Bottoms
- Sonoya Mizuno plays Mysaria in House of the Dragon and was in Crazy Rich Asians as well as Ex Machina and Devs
- Jonathan Pryce is a legendary character actor, best known for his lead role in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and for playing the High Sparrow in Game of Thrones
- Ruby Cruz was also in Bottoms and played Princess Kit Tanthalos in the 2022 TV reboot of Willow
- Nick Offerman will always be Parks and Recreation‘s Ron Swanson, even though he won that Emmy for his heartbreaking turn in HBO’s The Last of Us
- John Hodgkinson is an English stage actor who was recently in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
- Jefferson Hall plays both Tyland and Jason Lannister in House of the Dragon (and was Hugh of the Vale in Game of Thrones, too)
- Emma Laird played Jimmima in 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (written by Garland)
- Peter Serafinowicz was the voice of Darth Maul in the Star Wars prequels and Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy, although British viewers know him as a writer and star of surreal comedy TV shows like Look Around You
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