'I Just Can't Believe My Luck' — Dark Souls Superfan Peter Serafinowicz Reveals How He Landed a Role in the Upcoming Elden Ring Movie

Actor Peter Serafinowicz has revealed however a accidental brushwood with chap Dark Souls superfan Alex Garland led to him landing a relation successful the upcoming Elden Ring movie.

Serafinowicz, who is champion known arsenic the dependable of Darth Maul successful Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, for playing Pete successful Shaun of the Dead, Garthan Saal successful Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Sommelier successful John Wick: Chapter 2, picked Dark Souls arsenic 1 of his Five Brilliant Things successful an interrogation with British comedian Russell Howard.

Serafinowicz spoke passionately of his emotion for Dark Souls successful the interview, explaining successful large item however its infamous trouble makes it 1 of the astir rewarding video games ever created. “Once that clicks, it's like, ohio my god, this is the crippled I've been waiting for my full life,” helium said. “It teaches you that nary obstacle is insurmountable. And it's conscionable the astir satisfying crippled that I've ever played. And there's a happening astir each these games, erstwhile you play them and if they click for you, you don't privation to play immoderate different game. And I conscionable haven't.”

Serafinowicz went connected to explicate however helium landed 1 of the astir iconic roles successful the Dark Souls bid and, later, Elden Ring: the antheral character's dying sounds and symptom grunts. He said that helium fundamentally bullied his mode into a dependable acting relation successful Dark Souls 2, having loved the archetypal truthful much. FromSoftware formed him arsenic the dependable down Mild-Mannered Pate, but helium besides ended up doing thing acold much important…

“I yet got successful interaction with the bundle institution and said, ‘Look, I perceive you're making Dark Souls 2.’ And I couldn't person been much excited that they were making different one. And I said, ‘Look, I'm an actor. I'm bully astatine voices. I'd emotion to beryllium a dependable successful the game.’ And I benignant of bullied my mode into being… I played a quality successful the crippled and they don't person big, immense cutscenes and loads of dialog blah blah blah and dialog trees…. benignant of boring, right? Just similar conscionable these small benignant of bits, you know? And truthful I played this quality successful Dark Souls 2.

“But acold much thrillingly for me, they asked maine to supply the exertion noises for if you played arsenic a antheral character, right? So each the, 'when you die,' which is often successful these games. I play Elden Ring present and they've kept my sounds successful each the consequent games.

“I ever hide if erstwhile I prime it up and person a small spell and I dice it's similar maine right? It's a weird mode to beryllium immortalized successful this. It's 1 of my proudest achievements.”

At this constituent Serafinowicz revealed however helium went from doing voices connected Dark Souls and Elden Ring to starring successful the Elden Ring movie. It turns retired it each came from a accidental brushwood with writer and manager Alex Garland — besides a Dark Souls and Elden Ring superfan — and a relationship that followed.

“Quite a fewer years agone we were successful the aforesaid reception area, I was going for an audition. He had immoderate benignant of gathering there. Didn't cognize him, but helium came implicit and introduced himself to maine and was like, ‘You're Peter Serafinowicz aren't you?’ I said, ‘Yeah, you're Alex Garland.’ ‘Yeah, I'm a large fan.’ He was like, ‘You similar video games, don't you?’ And I said, ‘Well, I similar 1 video game.’ ‘It's Dark Souls, right?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ due to the fact that I'd talked astir it a bit. And helium said, ‘I'm conscionable the biggest Dark Souls fan.’ And we were conscionable enthusing astir each these antithetic aspects of this fantastic game, and we became friends based connected this small interaction, right?

“He had to spell into a gathering and I near my telephone fig astatine reception. I said, ‘Could you springiness this to Alex Garland erstwhile helium comes out? It was similar a benignant of date, you know. And truthful we became friends. Anyway, accelerated guardant to now, Alex is presently directing Elden Ring the movie, and I'm successful it! I'm successful it! I conscionable can't judge my luck. I conscionable can't judge that, that it's like, wow, dude. Wow, man!”

It’s a amusive afloat ellipse infinitesimal for Serafinowicz, who said Dark Souls and Elden Ring fans emotion that he’s down the FromSoftware decease noises. “One of the different formed successful it, I met him the different time erstwhile I went for a costume fitting. He besides is simply a large instrumentality of these games. And I told him this communicative and past I was doing my decease sound and helium was like, ‘Oh, dude. Oh my god.’”

Then, aft delivering a rather fantastic FromSoftware decease sound to adjacent retired the interview, Serafinowicz added: “And it says, ‘You died.’ It’s truthful funny, right? You died. Ha ha ha ha!”

Alex Garland’s live-action adaptation of FromSoftware’s masterful, 30-million selling video crippled hits theaters connected March 3, 2028. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Elden Ring is A24's astir ambitious task ever, with a fund "well implicit $100 million." That makes it a much costly accumulation than the likes of Marty Supreme and Alex Garland's ain Civil War.

The formed is headlined by Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus, Civil War, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), Ben Whishaw (Q successful James Bond films Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time to Die, and the dependable of Paddington Bear), and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, The Last of Us).

Elden Ring afloat 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 successful 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 connected a mythological story” written by Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin. Last year, the New Yorker said that Garland had completed an “epic” 160-page draft, with 40 further pages of imagery, arsenic a publication on-spec, past flew to Japan to transportation the movie himself.

That came arsenic small surprise, fixed we cognize that Garland is an Elden Ring pro. In June past year, helium told IGN helium was connected his seventh playthrough of Elden Ring, and revealed the brag helium recovered the toughest to instrumentality down.

Speaking to IGN up of the merchandise 28 Years Later — the zombie apocalypse movie helium wrote 23 years connected from penning the archetypal movie successful the franchise — Garland revealed which of each of the famed foes successful Elden Ring that helium has settled connected being the astir difficult: Malenia, Blade of Miquella.

“It's Malenia who's the pugnacious one”, Garland explained. “I'm present connected my seventh playthrough of that game. I've leveled up, I've got tons of juice, and a chill sword, and worldly similar that, and I conscionable propulsion myself astatine them again, and again, and again, and again.”

“That was the method I learned with Dark Souls," helium continued. “It's not that you get better, it's much similar monkeys and typewriters. You conscionable support doing it, and eventually, 1 time they're dead.”

Certainly, Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin, who worked connected the Elden Ring video crippled with FromSoftware, seems excited. Martin has described Garland arsenic a "first complaint director" and accumulation institution A24 arsenic "kickass." Martin said his temper upon proceeding the task announcement was "hopeful," arsenic helium shared a YouTube video titled "Why the Elden Ring Movie WON'T SUCK."

Photo by Sam Simpson/Dave Benett/Getty Images for British Vogue.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].