A24's Alex Garland "Elden Ring" adaptation is headed to the American Film Market next week, and per Deadline it will be the biggest-budget movie ever sold at a market. Amazon MGM already scooped up a chunk of international streaming rights.
Indie darling A24 now runs the world's largest used-car lot. The picture is pegged at $175 million to $200 million, which per Deadline's sources beats the latest "Hunger Games" instalment and Mel Gibson's "Resurrection Of The Christ," which got there by splitting the number across two movies.
At that budget A24 cannot be the only bagholder, so Amazon showed up with a check. Amazon MGM pre-empted a bundle of international pay-one streaming rights, "easily worth tens of millions of dollars" per sources, with a Twitch activation on the table because of course it is.
Here is the actual story though. The script runs 180-plus pages, which is a roughly three hour runtime, and A24 is flying its staffers out to international buyers to read it to them in person. Industry first. Parts of it are withheld to prevent spoilers, so buyers are getting a partial audiobook and a vibe. That is how a $200 million movie gets sold now, like a recipe nobody is allowed to taste.
George R.R. Martin is attached as producer, which at this point is a brand deal. The game sold 30 million copies and the movie will not make its money back until March 2028. Kit Connor stars, and he also plays Cyclops in the next X-Men movie the same year, so 2028 is a very full calendar for one Heartstopper kid.
YOUR TURN: Would you pay $18.50 for a three hour Elden Ring movie, or is that a quest better finished in a Japanese basement?
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