Kit Connor's Elden Ring casting makes perfect sense if you've seen his underrated war movie |
Elden Ring, the 2028 IMAX-sized movie version of Hidetaka Miyazaki's action RPG, may complete an unlikely trilogy for writer-director Alex Garland. Garland is no stranger to genre fiction — he’s written 28 Days Later, its two recent sequels, Sunshine, and directed Ex Machina and Annihilation — but zooming out, the movie looks less like a heady storyteller (and avid gamer) getting his crack at a Lord of the Rings-flavored epic than a logical conclusion to an exploration of memory and combat.
The casting of Kit Connor as an unknown character — but likely a dude wielding a sword — feels like the tipoff: there was Civil War, there was Warfare, and there will soon be a movie based on a game where you fight a multi-armed shardbearer named Godrick the Grafted that fits right alongside them.
Civil War was a big hit for A24 when it swept into theaters in 2024 with its explosive, discourse-friendly take on a theoretical internal U.S. conflict. Warfare, despite a cast stacked with our finest young actors, flew a bit more under the radar — likely because it’s 100% harder to watch. While Civil War made me squirm over the possibilities of lines drawn........