Will Elden Ring film be 'awesome' or 'meh'? Fans have thoughts

"Video games have become the new comic books for Hollywood right now," he said.

"After the huge success of Minecraft, Mario and Sonic at the box office, plus Fallout and The Last of Us on the smaller screen, movie producers have been scrambling to sign all sorts of games, from the biggest proven brands to entirely unproven properties that haven't even come out yet."

Elden Ring is "one of the most critically acclaimed fantasy games out there", he said, with more than 30 million players and the involvement of Game of Thrones author George RR Martin, who helped create its original story. "So it has a lot going for it."

But he added: "We have seen plenty of game adaptations fail to succeed on the big screen, including last year's Borderlands movie, which had a strong cast and was directed by Eli Roth. But it's very much the trend, and it's only growing."

Elden Ring is a role-playing adventure game set in the war-torn, devastated Lands Between, where players must collect runes which represent that world's order and laws, in order to restore it and become the Elden Lord.

TikToker Everythingethan added a note of caution, saying: "I want to know what part of the timeline we're adapting... I don't know if I want to see this live action. I think it would be kind of cursed at times. I think animation is the best way to adapt video games nine times out of 10."

Other fans speculated about which elements of the game's story would become the focus of the film, while another simply said: "This will be very bad, or meh."

Some suggested it would work better as a TV series, while others said they felt "conflicted", with one saying: "You can't really justify a gaming experience that takes your average player anywhere from 20-40 hours to beat and cram it all into a 2 hour movie."

Some gamers also welcomed the involvement of A24, which has previously worked with Garland on films including Annihilation, Men and Civil War.

"I'm scared. I love this game too much to watch it be 'tarnished'," said another.

In a statement, the game's publisher Bandai Namco said: "We're truly excited to bring the world of Elden Ring to fans in a new form, outside the game.

"Stay tuned. The path ahead is only beginning."