Following a number of photos showing the Elden Ring set in London, the internet has exploded with scores of further leaks, some of them including actual footage of major spoilers in action.
Warning! Spoilers for the Elden Ring movie follow:
The new footage and photos were published by an X / twitter account called @UnBoxPHD, which appears to specialize in movie set leaks. The leaks revealed this evening include footage of what looks like the execution of Dung Eater, which fans of FromSoftware’s game will find familiar as it appears lifted directly from its opening cinematic.
Dung Eater!
Elden Ring Filming Scene https://t.co/IvFis4lAZ8 pic.twitter.com/rN6tUxAhDP
— UnBoxPHD (@UnBoxPHD) April 22, 2026
We also have footage of what looks like Queen Marika, apparently played by Emma Laird. This, in combinaton with the Dung Eater execution scene, and other set photos, does appear to suggest that the Elden Ring movie depicts the events that took place before the Elden Ring video game. That is to say, before the The Shattering, the war that broke out between Queen Marika the Eternal’s offspring, and her demigod step-children, which left the Lands Between in ruins.
Queen Marika heads to watch the…https://t.co/tTlPqLGsTc pic.twitter.com/6sYeP3fvqa
— UnBoxPHD (@UnBoxPHD) April 22, 2026
This week, Shortlist published a number of set photos showing A24’s production at the Greenwich Naval College in South London. Shortlist’s photos revealed a medieval aesthetic, as you’d expect of an Elden Ring adaptation, and a green screen — potentially to add in the likes of the Erdtree as a visual effect.
A picture of the box on the set reads Leyndell Streets. In Elden Ring, Leyndell is the Royal Capital city located at the foot of the Erdtree. It seems reasonable to assume Leyndell will appear in the movie, and that filming for it is taking place here. Photos also show a box marked Stormveil. In the game, Stormveil Castle lies on the cliffs of Stormhill, a stronghold of Godrick the Grafted. Again, we should assume it’s in the movie. Another image, as Shortlist pointed out, includes props that suggest the Academy of Raya Lucaria is being adapted for the movie.
Earlier this month, set footage from a different location showed what looked like a game accurate statue of Marika, so Queen Marika’s appearance in the movie makes sense.
Reaction to the Elden Ring set footage is a mix of excitement and shock — excitement that what Elden Ring superfan Alex Garland is cooking up appears to accurately reflect the game, but shock that such revealing leaks are possible in the first place.
“Can’t believe we actually get to see this happen,” said one fan of the Dung Eater scene leak. “The amount of leaks on this set is insane,” said another.
Part of the issue with containing production may have to do with this location. While Greenwich Naval College isn’t as busy as London’s more famous attractions, it’s beside the River Thames, just a 10 minute walk from Greenwich Station, and is under normal circumstances open to the public daily. It’s hardly secluded. Indeed, where Garland is shooting right now is right on a public street.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elden Ring has a budget well over $100 million, with around 100 days of principal photography planned. It is, according to the publication, A24’s “largest and most ambitious” project ever. That means Elden Ring is a costlier production than A24’s Civil War, which was number one for the company before Marty Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet took the budget top spot. Alex Garland, who wrote and is directing Elden Ring, also wrote and directed Civil War, so A24 has form in handing Garland big bucks to make big productions.
Elden Ring full cast:
- Kit Connor (Warfare, Heartstopper)
- Ben Whishaw (Peter Hujar’s Day, This is going to Hurt)
- Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus, Civil War)
- Tom Burke (Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Black Bag)
- Havana Rose Liu (Tuner, Bottoms)
- Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina)
- Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes, The Crown)
- Ruby Cruz (Bottoms, The Threesome)
- Nick Offerman (The Last of Us, Margo’s Got Money Troubles)
- John Hodgkinson (Dear England, Napoleon)
- Jefferson Hall (House of the Dragon, Oppenheimer)
- Emma Laird (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, A Haunting in Venice)
- and Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace)
The Elden Ring movie is created “under the guidance” of FromSoftware’s Hidetaka Miyazaki, and “based on a mythological story” written by Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin. Last year, the New Yorker said that writer and director Alex Garland completed an “epic” 160-page draft, with 40 additional pages of imagery, as a script on-spec, then flew to Japan to pitch FromSoftware himself.
That came as little surprise, because while we know next to nothing about the Elden Ring movie, we do know that Garland is an Elden Ring pro. In June last year, he told IGN he was on his seventh playthrough of Elden Ring, and revealed the boss he found the toughest to take down.
Speaking to IGN ahead of the release 28 Years Later — the zombie apocalypse film he wrote 23 years on from penning the first movie in the franchise — Garland revealed which of all of the famed foes in Elden Ring that he has settled on being the most difficult: Malenia, Blade of Miquella.
“It’s Malenia who’s the tough one”, Garland explained. “I’m now on my seventh playthrough of that game. I’ve leveled up, I’ve got lots of juice, and a cool sword, and stuff like that, and I just throw myself at them again, and again, and again, and again.”
“That was the technique I learned with Dark Souls,” he continued. “It’s not that you get better, it’s more like monkeys and typewriters. You just keep doing it, and eventually, one day they’re dead.”
Elden Ring is due to hit theaters March 3, 2028.
Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at [email protected].
