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Would you want to see a Cosmere Anthology Series adapted? What are some of your hot takes for Cosmere adaptations?

Do you think Hoid should break the 4th wall in Cosmere adaptations?

It's the biggest release in fantasy by a landslide and yet I can't get my hands on a copy anywhere in the Netherlands. Seems to be a Europe wide issue.

When does an ‘adaptation’ become an ‘interpretation’ in your opinion?

Cavilld be a good Steelheart though

Any Alethi character would need to be South Pacific, or Polynesian

Animated would be perfect. Hollywood's bias against animation is the only reason it's going live action

What is your opinion on type-casting? Who do you think would make the perfect Hoid?

I think Kaladin takes on all three shards on roshar and will be known as Truth. I think Shallan backs out of going off world with Adolin to become a Knight of Wind and Truth choosing Kaladin over Adolin. Adolin will have Magic off roshar with an unlocked Maya but Shallan would have to kill pattern to go off world which makes the decision to stay behind and work with Kaladin over going off with Adolin easier. Adolin’s only real rival is a god 3 times over.

I mean, it'd be great animated well. I'd probably prefer that to cgi

How would you handle the Atium retcon in a film adaptation?

The cosmere smh. I love brando. But the cosmere is just all his works. There’s no actual link between all his series. Sure there might be a tiny, very tiny mention somewhere. But technically, the Bible is in the cosmere. Rheres nothing linking the stories….Replace the cosmere with Brandon Sanderson’s books.

Tress will be the first movie and it will be animated :p

I had not even considered before what Kaldin's fifth ideal might be before listening but I really enjoyed this part of the discussion. Based on my own journey with mental health, which honestly tracks pretty closely to the template for the immortal words you posted, I think the fifth ideal has got to be The Destination, no? So if step 4 is forgiving yourself for the person you were, step 5 is finally living authentically as the person you are now. I think it follows Bookborn's idea that each is Ideal harder than the last too. This is certainly true of my journey. Not only realising but accepting that you are now at the Destination. That maybe finally you are now the person you always knew, always hoped, you could be, that is *incredibly* difficult. Perhaps the hardest part of the journey is to accept that it is over, that you have arrived (although I think when it comes to mental health, you never really come to the end of that journey, you have to always keep working at it otherwise you risk going backwards, but a story also needs an end). But anyway, I think the same will be true for Kaladin too. I can really see him struggling with accepting this, with realising that he is already the good person, the protector, the healer... the hero. His accepting that would be a very satisfying end for me personally. Especially if he gets the normal happy life you guys spoke about-i'd even be happy with him losing his power, if it means his being happy. Anyway, this is what I have been thinking about since listening. A good thought provoking discussion. Happy Wind and Truth eve! Incredibly excited to wake up tomorrow and dive in!

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Nah male characters should stay male! No need to gender bent them. But knowing Hollywood and its woke nonsense....

I'm on board for genderswapped Dockson, but not loving genderswapped Ham, mostly given that Ham has a family and lives his life distantly to provide for them, leaving his wife to raise the children. While the mother working remotely to provide while a father raises the children is normal in many cultures today, in a pre-modern society it would be an exceptional outlier. Additionally, Ham making frequent trips to train at the garrison, but hide the fact that he's a misting while also not standing out too much as an oddity fits a bit better as a male (while granted female works fine in this scenario, it's slightly more of an oddity in general). Who would make a much better candidate IMO is a genderswapped Breeze. A noble socialite, and this also mitigates somewhat the disturbing age gap between himself & Allrianne Cett if the elder of the two is female, as the relationship would be viewed as (slightly) less predatory.

The Alloy of Law would be brutal to start with hahahaha

Why bother everyone is going to be race and gender swapped and made gay

A 20 years older Henry could play Dalinar

I actually think, the hero of ages shoukd get split in two, there's just no good way to cover everything, and we have really good highs wit both ten soon and spook stories

Glenn Powell would be amazing as Kelsier. Henry Cavill would be a perfect Amaram. Clubs would be perfectly played by Jonathan Banks!

Where do you recommend people to start their Cosmere journey?

The only person I can see playing Kelsier is Austin Butler. I'm not sure why but after seeing him in Dune Part 2 I can only see him as Kelsier.

Disagree with Hoid breaking the fourth wall. Marvel is great but it’s caused too many moves to not take themselves seriously scattering in silly jokes. However! Hoid should be allowed to break the fourth-ish wall when telling the stories of tress and yumi. (As in, he should still talk to us like we’re from the cosmere)

What did you all think of Disney’s latest sequel?

Love this vid!

In addition my other pet Theory is that whether Kaladin dies or ascends to take up The Shard of Honor, Orodin grows up Over the time jump becoming a perspective character And bonds Syl. We could still get memories of Kal through Syl teaching him lessons. Lirin then has enough trauma to bond his own damn spren knowing that he raised another fighter. Maybe bonus if he just jumps off the Tower of his own volition this time

I think Adolin revives Maya then later is put into mortal Danger and hence kaladin swears his fifth ideal, something to the effect of I will protect those deserving even at the cost of my own life. Kal dies and in the resolution of the book Adolin says something to the effect of never forgetting the sacrifice. Maybe I will remember those I've lost that made me the man I am or something like that. This counts as an edgedancer oath and finally binds him to Maya. I actually think these are all pipe dreams and I think adolin's going to die. But man if he survives and gets off world think of all the fashion he could see. Man I really need it to be Friday

I was bout to grab my pitchfork after you said to reveal kelsier is still alive but after your explanation I’m 100% onboard. As someone who got that spoiled before I got to it I think this is a great change

You better do a video on era 2

I love the idea of Hoid *occasionally* and *subtly* breaking the 4th wall. It perfectly fits his character! As many others have also thought, Mistborn would make an incredible video game!

I suggest only shows for cosmere

Everyone predicting Kal will ride off into the sunset with syl and become a therapist are as delusional as lirin. Kal is either dead or his fate is unknown read sunlit man….please.

I didnt realize there was going to be spoilers, I will have to keep this video saves until I read the books😭

After finishing the preview chapters my expectations are low. We are so far away from Kaladin and bridge 4 carrying a bridge. I’m so sick of Shallan at this point I will probably just skip all her parts. In one scene she is regretting having to kill the ghost bloods in the next she refuses to kill them. She could have murdered them 3 different times in the preview chapters. But the book needs them to be alive so she doesn’t. Makes me hate her character. Also lifts pov chapter where she is checking out boys is straight out of a CW show. Completely takes me out of the fantasy. Just to many characters running around im supposed to care about, but I don’t.

Brilliant work ❤

If you’re going to Nexus this year and find me in the wild, make sure to say hello. I’ve got bookmarks for all! 😊 And if you’re hungry for discussions on the Wind & Truth preview chapters, check out the Silverlight Guide to the Cosmere. We’ve been doing weekly readings & discussions over on their channel (with the occasional appearance by CJ from Cosmere Quandaries)!

As much as I like Keanu Reeves, I'm not sure if I'd agree with Brandon that he'd be the best choice for the Lord Ruler. I think the Lord Ruler needs to look younger, more intimidating, and more physically fit. He's supposed to look like an immortal perpetually in his prime, and Keanu is just kind of too old in my eyes and not intimidating in that cold ruthless villain sort of way. The Lord Ruler needs that presence, that gravitase, and I just don't think Keanu is right for that. Personally, I think Michael Fassbender would be a much better choice for the Lord Ruler. As for what character I think Henry Cavill could play, I think he'd actually be a great choice for Vasher/Zahel. I'm ceratin a Stormlight adaptation would come well before a Warbreaker one, so we could definitely see Henry "cameo-ing" in Stormlight as Zahel before getting him as a main character in a Warbreaker adaptation.

I think it will be very hard to ballance the shorter stories with people currently tired of interconnecting tv and movies. I think one anthology tv show is a good way of doing it as long as there isn’t much and that’s it

I think that now we have seen Universal’s approach to world building in Wicked from set design, CGI, and costuming. I think they absolutely have the chops. And I think that a Mistborn Halloween Horror Nights house would be a popular draw as well… a cheap pop up in the parks, the same way Universal monsters was HHN proof of concept until getting a land in Epic Universe.

Love the video! Agree on a lot of it and love to see Arcanum as an anthology series. I like your more conservative approach but think that if Mistborn 1 does well they should already start Elantris into production and start Warbreaker into pre production. I know the tough part would be selling it as the same universe but sometimes the post credit trailer can do wonders to make people realize that it’s all building to something greater

Henry as either the Lord Ruler or Wax would go SO HARD

Amazing video! Well done.

The Kelsier reveal should not come in the first movie for sure. Maybe at the end of Era 1. If the character is done right, then he will loom too large over the rest of era 1, if you imply he's not dead.

The secret history issue is more about Rashek showing to have fully died before Bands of Mourning. The idea that TLR may still be alive is central to that novel, and Secret History spoils that, though a lot of people miss that

I think the mistborn books would be too long to properly fit into any decent length movies, a TV series would probably be a lot better for them

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Great video! I think you’ve got a lot of good ideas here! I just really really hope anything they do make doesn’t flop.