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.