Is 2026 The Year Hollywood Finally Figures Out Video Game Movies? - Beyond 943

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Well, maybe! So far, we’ve had Return to Silent Hill, Iron Lung and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which were varying degrees of successful depending who you ask, but still to come we’ve got the Johnny Cage-forward Mortal Kombat II, Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil, the totally bonkers Street Fighter movie. And, hey, if this isn’t this year, it’s not like video game movie adaptations are slowing down: 2027 has The Legend of Zelda, Helldivers and Sonic The Hedgehog and A Minecraft Movie sequels. 2028, meanwhile, will finally see Call of Duty make its way to the big screen, but more interesting to us is A24’s Elden Ring film. Alex Garland has given us some of our favorite genre media of recent years, between Ex Machinia, Annihilation, Men, Devs, Civil War, and of course, 28 Days Later and 28 Years Later. How will he handle a cinematic tour of The Lands Between? Hard to say, but Nick Offerman, Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw and Jonathan Pryce will be there, so we’re certainly intrigued. Beyond! This weeks show is hosted by Max Scoville and Brian Altano and is produced by Nick Maillet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.4	Beyond and hello and welcome once again to IGN's weekly PlayStation show. I'm your host, Max
0:27.3	Govlin, coming up between the Mario Galaxy movie, Mortal Kombat 2, Street Fighter and Resident Evil
0:32.1	26 is shaping up to be a pretty great year for video game movies. But will any of them
0:36.4	actually be great movies
0:37.8	we'll discuss plus the elden ring movie cast has been announced and we have some thoughts let's get
0:42.8	into it well beyond and hello Brian. How's it going?
0:56.2	Well, Beyond Hello to you, Max.
0:58.7	I don't know why we said it like that. Like old rivals.
1:02.4	I think it's good to start a show like we're enemies. I think it's funny. And it's, you know, it's just a good, it's a good gag.
1:09.7	Now, I want to talk about some video game movie stuff.
1:11.4	This morning we got the Eldon Ring cast confirmed. This is the Alex Garland, A24, Eldon Ring adaptation. No one knows how the hell that's going to work, but I feel like it's in pretty good hands. Before we get into that, I want to talk about something crazy that happened, which I don't think anyone could have seen coming. Do you remember when they made the PlayStation more expensive?
1:30.1	Yeah.
1:30.6	Just like a couple weeks ago. happened, which I don't think anyone could have seen coming. Do you remember when they made the PlayStation more expensive?
1:30.0	Yeah.
1:30.6	Just like a couple weeks ago.
1:31.8	That sucked.
1:32.4	I'm going to go, I'm going to take an official stance and say that that sucked.
1:37.4	We try not to get too political here, but I think you may be on to something.
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