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Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
Source: The Guardian · Published
The expansive project has hype and money behind it – but how do you avoid it falling into the disappointment trap so many films end up stumbling into? If the history of failed Hollywood fantasy projects over the past 20 years has taught us anything, it is that transporting audiences to another world is only half the battle: you also have to give them a reason to spend several hours there. The…
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