When these movies get released, get ready for a bombardment of ‘What order of knight radiant are you, what cosmere planet are you from, what type of allomancer are you’ quizzes. If the movies are a hit, they will be everywhere.
Wow love his transparency and how he talks about the process for these things, he definitely is a large guiding light for other aspiring authors. When his live action adaptations release you know us book readers are gonna be bragging about how we knew and read his books first 😂😂
I just really want to see his works (especially Stormlight) animated with a combination of 2d and 3d animation techniques. What he writes would be adapted better if they can just ignore the laws of physics while creating it. It allows for a better stylized look and more accurate portrayals. Although, as far as style goes I would adore to see an artistic adaptation of Emperor's Soul.
100% agree. The descriptions of Roshar plantlife and the spren make it feel like the world is just more animated than our world, and would be better represented in a hyper-stylized animation.
Man I was so disappointed... Soon as I read amazon was adapting the show I was bit skeptical but still hopeful can't believe they ruined it with no mercy.
@@r1ofdeath920 Honestly, after seeing the last seasons of GoT, I had extremely low expectations and it only took the first episode for me to stop watching. I then watched the last episode to see if they improved, and after seeing that PoS, I will never watch anything Amazon produces ever again.
@@r1ofdeath920 Lmaoo people act like the wot adaptation is the next got s8. It’s not good, but it’s not terrible either. It was totally average. Adapting something amazing into something extremely average makes the average thing look worse than it actually is
@@Seb_Falkor did you know that when somebody finds it terrible, but you don’t, that they still find it terrible? do you know the difference between objective and subjective? i think it’s hot garbage and there’s no amount of people who claim otherwise that will change my mind.
I trust Brandon as a leader and steward of his work more than any other author; he knows where he needs to be involved and where he needs to let other people do their jobs. Give him the authority and you’ll get a good movie.
The fact that Brandon does not need their money gives him all the power to negociate. Usually these conversations are won by whom care less about closing the deal.
Game of Thrones was a cultural event bro. I love Brandon and Stormlight, but the grounded realism of ASOIAF is what made it palatable for the average Joe. Brandon's worlds and stories are a fantasy-fan's dreams, but I don't see the average Joe hopping on the bandwagon.
I do not have the patience to watch through... anyone's livestreams if I'm being honest, even Brandon's. So I really, REALLY appreciate you uploading big bits of interest like this.
I have the patience but not the time. Just like Brandon, I only watch these livestreams when I have other work to do and need some entertainment / voices in the background.
Don’t. As someone who knows Hollywood, LotR was honestly a miracle that should never have worked. And the LotR books were WAY more mainstream than Brandons books are now. Expect a decent adaptation that tries its best to please fans. Obviously I hope it’s much more than than but don’t get your hopes up is all. Hollywood isn’t a miracle maker. LotR was one of the exceptions not the norm
Honestly I'm not excited to see Mistborn adapted, as I don't trust movie studios with properties I love. But I'm very excited for the large amounts of merch it would create because it's hard to find good merch in the UK.
@@StormBlessedxo I don't distrust Brandon, but I do distrust Hollywood. I'd rather wait for Hollywood to get back into making movies well to get a Cosmere adaptation than let current Hollywood ruin it.
Disagree. We have a ton of good examples of wire movement and it's not like the powers in Mistborn are all that complex. Push and Jumper are some of my favorite movies and they don't look awkward. I'd want Arcane style for Stormlight probably so agree there but i NEED live action Mistborn
@@OblivionZX For me, it isn't the physical abilities that worries me. It is the mental abilities and the sets that worries me more. Stuff like the mist, or allomatic pulses are harder to translate visually in live action. Live action film doesn't have that much of a suspension of disbelief, so thoughts are a near no-go in live action film. So something like soothing or rioting would need an entirely different use compared to the fairly unsecretive appeal in the books. It was the same case for Dune and that worked out fine, but I'm not sure if Mistborn will have the same treatment.
@@WritingGeekNL Arcane's style is unique because of the mix of 3d and 2g effects. It's almost the 'who framed roger rabbit' of fully animated productions. So, hear me out... Who framed Szeth son son Vallano? Live action with 2d effects but we're in 2023 not 1993 or whenever that was.
For a long time I really wanted all of Brandon's cosmere to be made into TV shows and movies. Because I always thought of epic fantasy on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings. Where it really nailed a tone. And really try to be honest with the source material. With a bunch of recent garbage like halo, wheel of time, recent marvel releases, and others, it has made me very very nervous about Hollywood handling Brandon's work. If it can be done right, it will be the biggest fantasy universe ever in my opinion. But Brandon really needs to be steering the ship.
Brandon already talked about how he felt the Wheel of Time that Amazon did is worthy of being Wheel of Time. He said there were 2 routes, staying completely faithful to the books or having the basic elements of the books, but also including new scenes. And he said he likes to see cinematic mediums like TV and film doing new things. So, if you go into the Mistborn adaptations of being a 1 to 1 adaptation, you're going to be disappointed.
@@derangedtaco3491 Brandon definitely said that he had a few comments that went unheard, I'm not convinced that he thought it was a faithful adaptation. I think he's both a positive person and directly knows crew who made the WoT show. I could be way off but reading between the lines, I don't know that he liked the show that much as WoT, I think he was just able to enjoy it for some mindless watching. Personally I was able to separate it from the books and enjoy it as just a somewhat average fantasy show. Brandon more or less said the same, with head-canon he said he put it in some other cycle of the wheel turning, leaving the books untouched. You don't do that if you think it honoured the books in any way.
I would be shocked if they were on set this time next year. I think if he made a deal today, they’d probably get to filming next December at the earliest.
@@cosmerejunkie7931 i think that i'm never gonna be able to write something as beautiful as he did and it makes me happy and terribly sad at the same time
I would be extatic in *YEARS* IF I see a misborn official trailer. If done right will be fantastic. It would be a breath of fresh air from the recycled movies
There are only two things that I worry about his Cosmere adaptations to live action. Flying, please don't make it look like they are flying, Mistborn guys are pulled or pushed, please try to use chinese cinema style strings and pulleys, and stormlight flying is falling so I guess the same method plus some industrial fans should work. And the second one is magic running out, specially with Mistborn, and I told this to my GF, how will 'Iron running out will be shown?' I imagined it videogamelike with a bar, but in a movie? And to me metals running out mid fights gave them that level of stress and danger that otherwise they wouldnt have, they simply wont feel the same.
Aura, I imagine burning iron will create a "insert color" aura which will dim as it burns. Alternatively, you simply see things not work anymore and it is explained by kelsier to vin early on and referenced occasionally
I've tried to envision how running out of metals would look to someone who doesn't know what's going on in the mind of a character and I've come to one conclusion that makes sense and doesn't deviate from the books too much. It should be all in the eyes. Foe example when Kelsier is training Vin, he might tell her to burn steel and the camera could show a close up of Vins eyes flaring up and coming "alive" for want of a better word. Burning different metals could be shown by different eye colours in the initial flaring. Then, all we need is one example of an allomancer running out of whichever metal they're burning and that character could slump (or some other physical representation of running out of metals) and the eyes could be shown to noticeably dim. Obviously the character will have to remark on the fact that they burned through their supply but we only need this once. From that point onwards, the dimming of the eyes and the physical slump should be enough indication that the character has run out of whichever metals they were burning. It's not a perfect solution but I personally would find it a satisfactory explanation of what's happening on screen in a way that's not exposition-ey. There's also the problem of eye colour being so important in The Stormlight Archive but, as they're two separate entities, I feel they can be treated differently without causing a fuss.
You know Kaladin can balance his lashings so good now that he really seems to be basically flying I would only use that falling type of scene in battle sequences like him suddenly turning directions and maybe in the first scenes when Kaladin starts to “fly” that first scene when Kaladin begins to lash himself throughout all of the shattered plains and he has bad control over it in those sceanes makes sense to highlight the falling part of it and in battle sequences when he suddenly changes course by using another lashing those falling type of flying make sense but when he is simply just flying around he supposedly can create half or even a third lashings in every other direction and make his body be balanced and composed and moving in a continuously matter like he is actually flying.
@@GerryBolger I like that idea, but I remember passages of they feeling metals running low and me going "ohh noo" the eyes are too small to catch that I think there is no other way than being expository with something cheesy like 'oh no I am almost out of iron' 🤣🤣 but if Brandon has proven something is that he is a better writer than me so I bet he will come up with something
I think they were a bit overconfident at that point and there might have been some setbacks. Plus with the writer's strike. I still hope for something at Dragonsteel con 2023.
If my knowledge of the industry is correct, preproduction must be full steam ahead for filming to begin in a year. Which means the decision on what to film must be already made, right? Or I am just out of the loop?
I'm happy with the potential for more people to be exposed to Brandon's work but also apprehensive considering how horrible Hollywood has been these last few years.
As cool as this is, I refuse to get my hopes up until we see a lot more. So many terrible adaptations have come out recently that I'm shy about another. I would love to see this be amazing
House of the Dragon seems to be a great adaptation. Rings of Power also looks incredible the only thing that is being criticized is the writing not being faithful to Tolkien but the show still looks incredible. I’m very confident in the fact that Brandon will only make business with a company that will guarantee he will have a part to play in the production of it he has made that quite clear to us fans not just now but quite a lot of times that he is has no need of money and he is very determined that the show will have to be extremely faithful to his vision so that’s not what I’m worried I’m more worried in them having the budget to make such a rich magical world as Stormlight Archive is but from the likes of it the budget is going to be huge.
@@ricardomadleno564 I'm not a GOT fan so I can't speak to its fandom, but my understanding was that the writing tanked when the directors started having to write for themselves, so HotD seems like a coin toss at best. IMO Rings of Power does not look incredible, it looks surprisingly low budget and low effort considering the amount of money going into it. Seems like a branded cash grab. And both suffer heavily from injection of modern values. Peter Jackson LOTR was faithfully wholesome, but GOT especially stands amidst a common trend of the over-sexualization of everything. I cannot imagine my horror if they sexualize Brandon Sanderson stories on the big screen. Brandon involvement would probably make quite a difference, I share the hope that he'll have a strong hand in any development.
@@SomeTomfoolery From what I remember the books are very sexual as well, and there are plenty of interviews of GRRM defending the sex in his book and the shows. Also, while not being a huge fan of the LoTR books, I can understand fans reactions to them straying so much from the books. But I don't understand the criticism of it "looking surprisingly low budget", it looks pretty visually stunning imo.
@@kingCrow998 Oh yeah, I know the GoT books are super sexed up, I just mean that so much mainstream content is also hyper sexual nowadays. As far as LotR: RoP goes, it really doesn't look good at second inspection. So much looks fake, plastic, and far too clean. It looks impressive at a glance, but for me at least, closer inspection reveals a lot of cut corners and cheap props.
Nearly a year after this, with no news or even rumors of a deal and with streaming/production houses having had a string of high-profile big budget fantasy flops, it seems likely no deal was reached. Maybe I’m biased, but my suspicion is that whatever studios that were in talks were unwilling to allow Brandon the level of control necessary to maintain the integrity of the work. If that’s the case, I think I’m okay with that.
Unpopular opinion: I see a lot of people saying that they think the adaptations will be amazing simply because Sanderson is involved. I think it's important to remember that while Brandon is one of the greatest living authors right now, the movie/television industry is a completely different beast. I have all the faith in the world right now, but he is only human - him being involved is not an absolute guarantee that these will be good adaptations. It's the best possible scenario we could be hoping for and my hype is through the roof, but remember people, there's only so much Brandon can do as an unexperienced co-creater/producer/advisor on these shows.
Expect the best prepare for the worst. Hollywood fucks up adaptations all the time. Like, the creators of ATLA left the live action project, having creative freedom doesn't mean you wont be smothered by the interests of profit or political correctness. (at least in the fucked up way hollywood does it, I have no problem with actual social justice and all that)
Very fair point. On the other hand, in his reviews of the Wheel of Time episodes, Sanderson discusses ways he anticipated the problems that fans would have with the show. If he had been listened to, WoT likely would have been better. I think Sanderson having some sort of veto power in Cosmere adaptations will be a net positive, but it is by no means a guarantee that the show will be good.
Fortunately, he agrees with you which is why he is not asking to be showrunner. He just wants to be heavily involved so that he can make sure it's being done well and to gain experience so when it comes time for Stormlight, he will be ready and experienced.
Even if he is heavily involved and does make the right calls for a TV/movie... he will still be one small piece in a huge puzzle. I obviously want it to be amazing, but yeah it's best to keep expectations in check.
Hello, talking about adaptation. Now i am lisening outhbringer on audible and In my personal opinion, stormlight should be a anime. From spren to fighting and action scenes, to charecter expresion and book structure. it lends perfectlyv to this type of viziual art style.
I would much prefer an animated show than live action. I feel Hollywood relies too much on bad cgi. Look at the new jurassic Park vs the old and tell me which holds up better
I do hope that that there are stipulations that the Cosmere properties are being kept as a group, and haven't been tranched apart. I'm quire certain no one wants a repeat of what happened with Marvel, where Sony still controls Spider-Man movies, and Universal controls solo Hulk Films.
I don't really see a huge issue with the cosmere branches going to different studios. Yeah its a shared universe and some stuff crosses over, but at this point outside of a particular sword there's not really any overlap. Maybe, maybe it could be written in "all productions have to include Hoid, and use the same actor" and just Stan Lee cameo him in until he's important. Like if Edgedancer was getting adapted, yeah I'd want that to be the same studio doing Stormlight... but if Mistborn or Elantris or Alcatraz were completely separate it wouldn't be a big deal. Sure eventually way down the line there might be bigger more important crossing over but from the books we have currently nothing that big. Brandon knows better than us what would need to be kept together.
If SA was adapted faithfully, it would be the best fantasy show available, no doubt. It would be very high budget though, due to all of the fantastical locations, powers, and spren.
I have faith an adaptation of mistborn would be 🔥 on the bjg screen. Get Denis Villeneuve in the directors seat and gimme that Dune level cinematography.
If made into a tv miniseries. It can be rated tv-14. The television equivalent of pg-13. It doesn't need an r rating. Which will not be accessible to wider audiences. Pg-13 or tv-14 is the better choice of a Stormlight Archive adaptations. For Films and television alike.
You can't call yourself a fan of the fantasy genre. Without mentioning the lord of the rings. Don't make it another game of thrones. The lord of the rings paved the way for every epic fantasy story in history. Alongside Narnia, and Earthsea.
I get superhero characters need to roughly be episodic adventures and no aging in real time. That doesn't have to be a problem to novels, fantasy, rpgs, anime and manga, even horror and westerns. These genres aside from superheroes. Doesn't have its characters and stories be back to normal. It has pernamate changes. Like character development and progress, sometimes the stories of these characters age in years like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. That's one flaw I noticed. In comics. More specifically, superhero tales. This needs to change.
Let me be honest. Deviations from novels, comics, video games, etc. Need to happen. It is sometimes a reason to experiment. Don't just copy its source material and call it a day. Let the adaptations be its own thing.
To me, fantasy is not just television. Cinema has a place for the genre too. Fantasy books have the right to exist as movies whether people like it or not. It has a right to be made. I care. Books can be done anyway it wants to become. Mistborn has the potential and right to be made as a film. I don't want any "no, buts, why, or how dare they you!" stuff. It has to happen, it needs to happen. I had enough of this nonsense and nitpicking. That was a few years ago! Yet, people are still doing this. This needs to stop! Deal with it. Times are always changing. Earthsea would have better as a film series instead. I am okay if there are deviations and cut out some plot points alike. Too many subplot points can also may story convoluted and confusing too. Keep very little subplots while keeping the main plot intact. That is my idea of doing book adaptations as films and tv shows. Fantasy still has a place for cinema, not just tv. It better have a right to exist in the first place.
We are six months later, I hope we will soon have more info ! :D And I see a lot of people being annoyed with a possible gender swap. Personnally I don't care, I really don't think it will change the story or the interaction that these character have with Vin or on the overall story. I have confidence in Sanderson to make it work nicely, and can't wait to see the first news !
So he did give an update in the state of the sanderson. He said it’s possible we may not have an announcement in 2023. I don’t mind a gender swap. The only crew member who I wouldn’t swap is unfortunately the one it sounds like is likely to be changed. Ham. In the book, a big part of Hams character is he’s a fighter and uses pewter just enough to give him an edge in all his fights but not enough that an inquisitor would catch onto him being an allomancer. If Ham is a woman and routinely fighting trained soldiers and always winning, someone would notice and put together that she’s probably a a thug. Then they could report her to the inquisitors. Any other member of the crew would work for me tho.
Yeah, in the year of sanderson he mentioned we may not get official news even in 2023! 😢 but yeah. The only character I think is important not to gender swap is Ham. If a woman was a thug and undefeated in every fight the inquisitors would find out she was a misting and their whole job makes a lot more sense for the kind of work they’d be doing
@@chaserichardson305 Why? We are only 4 books into 10 and Sanderson is taking a break for a few years after Stormlight 5. Why in the world would you want a Stormlight adaptation right now? It would be absolutely terrible and people would end up recast/the story will go off the rails considering we aren't even halfway through the series and it will likely be 20+ years before it is completed. It is simply too early. Mistborn has a completed story, with multiple eras of new characters that make it much more realistic to adapt right now, considering they could go an Era at the time. Stormlight doesn't have that luxury. And I don't trust studios with modern day Fantasy adaptations after Wheel of Time.
@@dylanb2990 The show was awful imo. Stupid plotting, direct contradictions to the book that made it objectively worse, and wildly cheap feeling. But I'm glad you enjoyed it. I don't think Sanderson was being honest about his opinion on the show due to his ties to the franchise, but I guess there's no way to know.
No; he wasn’t totally clear but it sounds like instead of paying him over time for the 5 year rights (or whatever amount of time) they are paying all the money up front.
@@WPeter96 I just hope that all Cosmere adaptations are really good! I know Mistborn is more popular than Elantris, but I think Elantris would have made a great movie to start the Cosmere off!
Mistborn really should be an anime i think it would be more popular than a movie or tv show just cause the powers are hard to get looking good in live action and I just see corruption there egotistical showrunners not having enough time or money to do the story justice, CGI looking bad, etc. While i was reading it i was just thinking anime the whole time.
Stormlight I agree, Mistborn no. The powers aren't that complex or flashy. Its telekinesis, hulk jumps, and lots of hand-to-hand combat essentially. I think live action would work fine and I'd prefer that format for Mistborn because animated mediums wouldn't be able to capture the ambiance or seriousness properly imo. I read The Magicians by Lev Grossman not too long after Mistborn and the show for that is great, even with the deviations.
Yeah but the flying around would probably look dumb as hell in live action and i doubt they would do the fights justice in live action for mistborn. The way Brandon describes his fights are very anime like. Where as you read something like Red rising and the way its described is very gritty and real. @@OblivionZX Plus what anime have you been watching there is no better format for capture little details or emotion. its a very broad genre there is cyberpunk, arcane, castlevania, jujustu kai, there you look at rurouni kenshin, then there are the studio gibili types. Lots of different styles and lots of different ways of going about things. I think you are getting the week to week anime confused with the more artsy studios cause not all anime is dumb action and lack of seriousness, not every anime is my hero academia. i mean look at kill bill
Call me selfish….but I’d much rather have more Stormlight books being written than see him spending time on adaptations 😁. If I had a few million to burn I’d offer to pay him to NOT collaborate with Hollywood 😐.
Hi. Filmmaker here. Your title's misleading. NOTHING about this says production WILL begin any time soon. Nothing's a done deal until there's signed paperwork, and even then it's not 100% certain. We can start rejoicing when production ACTUALLY begins.
The video title and thumbnail never claimed to tell us when to “start rejoicing”. And the title never used words like confirmed which I certainly would’ve used it it had. I’m sorry it bothered you tho! Have a nice day!
His books already have all the female power, beautifully diverse cast, hints of queerness and moral struggles needed. I don't think it'll be too hard to keep it from flying off his vision for agenda purposes.
@@marenkendall7413Sadly this not a guarantee. Wheel of Time books have even more female empowerment, yet Amazon turned into a spectacular train wreck in this regard.
Oh I can only hope this ends being good. Sandman ended being rather poor show even with Gaiman direct involvment. Foundation was horribe, WoT also and it seems LOTR will also be rather poor adaptation.
At ICON Tel Aviv a few weeks ago I heard from his beta readers that he thinks adaptations are a new creation and therefore it's okay to deviate from the original, and he wants to use the opportunity to fix issues of representation in his novels by giving some characters a sex change. IMO that's horribly wrong. The whole point of the adaptation is to watch the book. Any deviation from the book is a flaw. If he wants more representation he can just write new books. I don't mind if 100% of the characters are black women or whatever, just don't change existing characters.
Spoken like someone who thinks that book fans are the target audience for adaptations. We aren't, we're the pre-show hype and free marketing. Making a show for only the fans wouldn't make any financial sense, we are too small of a community to generate the viewing numbers that would make it worth producing. Even if the books fans hate it, we still wouldn't have much of an impact if we stopped watching it, and even the negativity of the fanbase would help market the show even more. The general audience is the target audience.
Plus, novels and film are two different mediums, what works in one probably wouldn't work in the other. And some deviations are necessary, like both IT adaptions removing the underage sewer orgy. Again, the preexisting fans of any series do not have enough numbers to justify making a show only for them when even the lowest budget of these adaptations goes to the millions in terms of budgets.
GRRM2.0. I'm calling it now Once you get a taste of real money. Why write these massive books when you can do 5 percent of the work and gett PAID. Im happy for him but damn. Makes you think
He also said in an earlier livestream or maybe on Intentionally Blank that Hollywood doesn't know what to do with writers who don't care about their money. That's not his motivation and he can be very discerning about who he decides to do collaborate with.
He’s said he already never has to work another day in his life based on his success as an author. That was before the Kickstarter and before the movies and TV series. So he already had enough money to never work again and he wrote 5 secret projects in the pandemic. The man isn’t anything like GRRM when it comes to work ethic
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@@AslanisJc same tho
When these movies get released, get ready for a bombardment of ‘What order of knight radiant are you, what cosmere planet are you from, what type of allomancer are you’ quizzes. If the movies are a hit, they will be everywhere.
Wow love his transparency and how he talks about the process for these things, he definitely is a large guiding light for other aspiring authors.
When his live action adaptations release you know us book readers are gonna be bragging about how we knew and read his books first 😂😂
For sure! So hyped!
I just really want to see his works (especially Stormlight) animated with a combination of 2d and 3d animation techniques. What he writes would be adapted better if they can just ignore the laws of physics while creating it. It allows for a better stylized look and more accurate portrayals. Although, as far as style goes I would adore to see an artistic adaptation of Emperor's Soul.
Yessssss exactly what I imagine, like Arcane style. Otherwise seeing people floating and fighting with powers IRL feels a bit cringy
@@everlastingmoments8646 I know right? Plus, with 2d animation, you can achieve stylized effects that you just can't get otherwise.
100% agree. The descriptions of Roshar plantlife and the spren make it feel like the world is just more animated than our world, and would be better represented in a hyper-stylized animation.
Mistborn as Arcane-style would be sooooo good. That or something HBO-style
Please let Brandon keep creative control in those projects. I don't want to see another Wheel-of-Time-style travesty.
Oh he is. If you check out the video I posted just before this one he talks all about him having control
Man I was so disappointed... Soon as I read amazon was adapting the show I was bit skeptical but still hopeful can't believe they ruined it with no mercy.
@@r1ofdeath920 Honestly, after seeing the last seasons of GoT, I had extremely low expectations and it only took the first episode for me to stop watching. I then watched the last episode to see if they improved, and after seeing that PoS, I will never watch anything Amazon produces ever again.
@@r1ofdeath920 Lmaoo people act like the wot adaptation is the next got s8. It’s not good, but it’s not terrible either. It was totally average.
Adapting something amazing into something extremely average makes the average thing look worse than it actually is
@@Seb_Falkor did you know that when somebody finds it terrible, but you don’t, that they still find it terrible? do you know the difference between objective and subjective? i think it’s hot garbage and there’s no amount of people who claim otherwise that will change my mind.
I trust Brandon as a leader and steward of his work more than any other author; he knows where he needs to be involved and where he needs to let other people do their jobs. Give him the authority and you’ll get a good movie.
The fact that Brandon does not need their money gives him all the power to negociate. Usually these conversations are won by whom care less about closing the deal.
I am so happy for Brandon and all of fantasy fans. I hope this is even bigger and better than LOTR and Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones was a cultural event bro. I love Brandon and Stormlight, but the grounded realism of ASOIAF is what made it palatable for the average Joe. Brandon's worlds and stories are a fantasy-fan's dreams, but I don't see the average Joe hopping on the bandwagon.
@@starmorpheus then we'll make them or they're going to the bridge crews
I do not have the patience to watch through... anyone's livestreams if I'm being honest, even Brandon's. So I really, REALLY appreciate you uploading big bits of interest like this.
I have the patience but not the time. Just like Brandon, I only watch these livestreams when I have other work to do and need some entertainment / voices in the background.
Of course! I’m glad you appreciate it! I listen to them at double speed on my way to and from work haha
*curb your enthusiasm theme intensifies*
LOL
a year later and we’re in the middle of a writer’s strike
This aged like milk. No doubt an adaptation is still coming, though!
Just from what we've already seen, I really hope we get an anime of Yumi and the nightmare painter some day.
I'm expecting LotR-level stuff from anything that gets made
I expect better thaan LotR, knowing it was made 20 years ago
Don’t. As someone who knows Hollywood, LotR was honestly a miracle that should never have worked. And the LotR books were WAY more mainstream than Brandons books are now. Expect a decent adaptation that tries its best to please fans. Obviously I hope it’s much more than than but don’t get your hopes up is all. Hollywood isn’t a miracle maker. LotR was one of the exceptions not the norm
Peter Jackson LOTR? Or Amazon LOTR?
@@SomeTomfoolery The Trilogy that won 17 oscars. 😊
@@noname3609 That would be awesome. Hopefully we see the same kind of dedication and passion as was put into that one
Honestly I'm not excited to see Mistborn adapted, as I don't trust movie studios with properties I love. But I'm very excited for the large amounts of merch it would create because it's hard to find good merch in the UK.
@@StormBlessedxo I don't distrust Brandon, but I do distrust Hollywood. I'd rather wait for Hollywood to get back into making movies well to get a Cosmere adaptation than let current Hollywood ruin it.
Sooooooo Excited for Sir Brandon and his Mistborn and Cosmere! Love Love Love from the Philippines! I hope they make it LOTR Epic Quality....
I think Mistborn would be perfect in the style of Arcane. I can't really imagine the alloymancy effects working too well in live action.
Disagree. We have a ton of good examples of wire movement and it's not like the powers in Mistborn are all that complex. Push and Jumper are some of my favorite movies and they don't look awkward. I'd want Arcane style for Stormlight probably so agree there but i NEED live action Mistborn
@@OblivionZX
For me, it isn't the physical abilities that worries me.
It is the mental abilities and the sets that worries me more. Stuff like the mist, or allomatic pulses are harder to translate visually in live action.
Live action film doesn't have that much of a suspension of disbelief, so thoughts are a near no-go in live action film. So something like soothing or rioting would need an entirely different use compared to the fairly unsecretive appeal in the books.
It was the same case for Dune and that worked out fine, but I'm not sure if Mistborn will have the same treatment.
@@WritingGeekNL Arcane's style is unique because of the mix of 3d and 2g effects. It's almost the 'who framed roger rabbit' of fully animated productions. So, hear me out...
Who framed Szeth son son Vallano? Live action with 2d effects but we're in 2023 not 1993 or whenever that was.
I’m so incredibly nervous for the film adaptations….
Fingers crossed it’s great!
Now I'm just mad that we haven't gotten that animated Alcatraz movie.
For a long time I really wanted all of Brandon's cosmere to be made into TV shows and movies. Because I always thought of epic fantasy on the scale of something like Lord of the Rings. Where it really nailed a tone. And really try to be honest with the source material. With a bunch of recent garbage like halo, wheel of time, recent marvel releases, and others, it has made me very very nervous about Hollywood handling Brandon's work. If it can be done right, it will be the biggest fantasy universe ever in my opinion. But Brandon really needs to be steering the ship.
Brandon already talked about how he felt the Wheel of Time that Amazon did is worthy of being Wheel of Time. He said there were 2 routes, staying completely faithful to the books or having the basic elements of the books, but also including new scenes. And he said he likes to see cinematic mediums like TV and film doing new things. So, if you go into the Mistborn adaptations of being a 1 to 1 adaptation, you're going to be disappointed.
Lord of the Rings is as Hollywood as it gets
@@derangedtaco3491 Brandon definitely said that he had a few comments that went unheard, I'm not convinced that he thought it was a faithful adaptation. I think he's both a positive person and directly knows crew who made the WoT show. I could be way off but reading between the lines, I don't know that he liked the show that much as WoT, I think he was just able to enjoy it for some mindless watching.
Personally I was able to separate it from the books and enjoy it as just a somewhat average fantasy show. Brandon more or less said the same, with head-canon he said he put it in some other cycle of the wheel turning, leaving the books untouched. You don't do that if you think it honoured the books in any way.
"I would be surprised if we weren't on set filming this time next year"
More than 2 years later and still nothing
wasn't there big writer strikes
Best Fantasy Books already. Now let us hope for outstanding Big Screen success.
I want to audition for the role of Lord Edgard Ladrian
This is very much appreciated, thanks !
Im super excited! Definetly made my day. 😁
Same! Only months to go and we’ll find out which property they are working on!
@@cosmerejunkie7931 I think WB + Brandon would do an astonishing job. 😄
I would be shocked if they were on set this time next year. I think if he made a deal today, they’d probably get to filming next December at the earliest.
Wooooww best news in freaking yeaaaaaarrrrrrsssss
I love this man ❤️❤️❤️
He’s such a role model
@@cosmerejunkie7931 i think that i'm never gonna be able to write something as beautiful as he did and it makes me happy and terribly sad at the same time
@@alexkidpaum6331 All you can do is try! And enjoy the books you love at the same time!
I would be extatic in *YEARS* IF I see a misborn official trailer. If done right will be fantastic. It would be a breath of fresh air from the recycled movies
Ahhhhh! That’s SO exciting!!!! 🙌🏻🫶🏻
There are only two things that I worry about his Cosmere adaptations to live action.
Flying, please don't make it look like they are flying, Mistborn guys are pulled or pushed, please try to use chinese cinema style strings and pulleys, and stormlight flying is falling so I guess the same method plus some industrial fans should work.
And the second one is magic running out, specially with Mistborn, and I told this to my GF, how will 'Iron running out will be shown?' I imagined it videogamelike with a bar, but in a movie? And to me metals running out mid fights gave them that level of stress and danger that otherwise they wouldnt have, they simply wont feel the same.
Aura, I imagine burning iron will create a "insert color" aura which will dim as it burns. Alternatively, you simply see things not work anymore and it is explained by kelsier to vin early on and referenced occasionally
I've tried to envision how running out of metals would look to someone who doesn't know what's going on in the mind of a character and I've come to one conclusion that makes sense and doesn't deviate from the books too much. It should be all in the eyes.
Foe example when Kelsier is training Vin, he might tell her to burn steel and the camera could show a close up of Vins eyes flaring up and coming "alive" for want of a better word. Burning different metals could be shown by different eye colours in the initial flaring.
Then, all we need is one example of an allomancer running out of whichever metal they're burning and that character could slump (or some other physical representation of running out of metals) and the eyes could be shown to noticeably dim. Obviously the character will have to remark on the fact that they burned through their supply but we only need this once. From that point onwards, the dimming of the eyes and the physical slump should be enough indication that the character has run out of whichever metals they were burning.
It's not a perfect solution but I personally would find it a satisfactory explanation of what's happening on screen in a way that's not exposition-ey.
There's also the problem of eye colour being so important in The Stormlight Archive but, as they're two separate entities, I feel they can be treated differently without causing a fuss.
@GerryBolger yes having some mild special effects on the eyes for Allomancy is likely the best option.
You know Kaladin can balance his lashings so good now that he really seems to be basically flying I would only use that falling type of scene in battle sequences like him suddenly turning directions and maybe in the first scenes when Kaladin starts to “fly” that first scene when Kaladin begins to lash himself throughout all of the shattered plains and he has bad control over it in those sceanes makes sense to highlight the falling part of it and in battle sequences when he suddenly changes course by using another lashing those falling type of flying make sense but when he is simply just flying around he supposedly can create half or even a third lashings in every other direction and make his body be balanced and composed and moving in a continuously matter like he is actually flying.
@@GerryBolger I like that idea, but I remember passages of they feeling metals running low and me going "ohh noo" the eyes are too small to catch that I think there is no other way than being expository with something cheesy like 'oh no I am almost out of iron' 🤣🤣 but if Brandon has proven something is that he is a better writer than me so I bet he will come up with something
I think they were a bit overconfident at that point and there might have been some setbacks. Plus with the writer's strike.
I still hope for something at Dragonsteel con 2023.
If my knowledge of the industry is correct, preproduction must be full steam ahead for filming to begin in a year. Which means the decision on what to film must be already made, right? Or I am just out of the loop?
I'm happy with the potential for more people to be exposed to Brandon's work but also apprehensive considering how horrible Hollywood has been these last few years.
As cool as this is, I refuse to get my hopes up until we see a lot more. So many terrible adaptations have come out recently that I'm shy about another. I would love to see this be amazing
House of the Dragon seems to be a great adaptation. Rings of Power also looks incredible the only thing that is being criticized is the writing not being faithful to Tolkien but the show still looks incredible. I’m very confident in the fact that Brandon will only make business with a company that will guarantee he will have a part to play in the production of it he has made that quite clear to us fans not just now but quite a lot of times that he is has no need of money and he is very determined that the show will have to be extremely faithful to his vision so that’s not what I’m worried I’m more worried in them having the budget to make such a rich magical world as Stormlight Archive is but from the likes of it the budget is going to be huge.
@@ricardomadleno564 I'm not a GOT fan so I can't speak to its fandom, but my understanding was that the writing tanked when the directors started having to write for themselves, so HotD seems like a coin toss at best.
IMO Rings of Power does not look incredible, it looks surprisingly low budget and low effort considering the amount of money going into it. Seems like a branded cash grab.
And both suffer heavily from injection of modern values. Peter Jackson LOTR was faithfully wholesome, but GOT especially stands amidst a common trend of the over-sexualization of everything. I cannot imagine my horror if they sexualize Brandon Sanderson stories on the big screen.
Brandon involvement would probably make quite a difference, I share the hope that he'll have a strong hand in any development.
I also feel this skepticism. With so many adaptations going on, it's frustrating that most of them are terrible
@@SomeTomfoolery From what I remember the books are very sexual as well, and there are plenty of interviews of GRRM defending the sex in his book and the shows. Also, while not being a huge fan of the LoTR books, I can understand fans reactions to them straying so much from the books. But I don't understand the criticism of it "looking surprisingly low budget", it looks pretty visually stunning imo.
@@kingCrow998 Oh yeah, I know the GoT books are super sexed up, I just mean that so much mainstream content is also hyper sexual nowadays.
As far as LotR: RoP goes, it really doesn't look good at second inspection. So much looks fake, plastic, and far too clean. It looks impressive at a glance, but for me at least, closer inspection reveals a lot of cut corners and cheap props.
Nearly a year after this, with no news or even rumors of a deal and with streaming/production houses having had a string of high-profile big budget fantasy flops, it seems likely no deal was reached. Maybe I’m biased, but my suspicion is that whatever studios that were in talks were unwilling to allow Brandon the level of control necessary to maintain the integrity of the work. If that’s the case, I think I’m okay with that.
Especially now with the writers' strike and actors' strike it may be some time before we get anything greenlit.
Unpopular opinion: I see a lot of people saying that they think the adaptations will be amazing simply because Sanderson is involved. I think it's important to remember that while Brandon is one of the greatest living authors right now, the movie/television industry is a completely different beast. I have all the faith in the world right now, but he is only human - him being involved is not an absolute guarantee that these will be good adaptations. It's the best possible scenario we could be hoping for and my hype is through the roof, but remember people, there's only so much Brandon can do as an unexperienced co-creater/producer/advisor on these shows.
Expect the best prepare for the worst. Hollywood fucks up adaptations all the time. Like, the creators of ATLA left the live action project, having creative freedom doesn't mean you wont be smothered by the interests of profit or political correctness. (at least in the fucked up way hollywood does it, I have no problem with actual social justice and all that)
Very fair point. On the other hand, in his reviews of the Wheel of Time episodes, Sanderson discusses ways he anticipated the problems that fans would have with the show. If he had been listened to, WoT likely would have been better. I think Sanderson having some sort of veto power in Cosmere adaptations will be a net positive, but it is by no means a guarantee that the show will be good.
But him being involved means they won't ruin plot points or character arcs etc. Like GoT or WoT
Fortunately, he agrees with you which is why he is not asking to be showrunner. He just wants to be heavily involved so that he can make sure it's being done well and to gain experience so when it comes time for Stormlight, he will be ready and experienced.
Even if he is heavily involved and does make the right calls for a TV/movie... he will still be one small piece in a huge puzzle. I obviously want it to be amazing, but yeah it's best to keep expectations in check.
Hello, talking about adaptation. Now i am lisening outhbringer on audible and In my personal opinion, stormlight should be a anime. From spren to fighting and action scenes, to charecter expresion and book structure. it lends perfectlyv to this type of viziual art style.
Brandon already said that he wants a live action adaptation.
Yup
Well this didn't go as planned
Hmmm those announcements never came.
I would much prefer an animated show than live action. I feel Hollywood relies too much on bad cgi. Look at the new jurassic Park vs the old and tell me which holds up better
yes yes yes yes. lets just hope. and if i understand it correctly. mr sanderson is going to be there and make sure they do it right?.
I wonder if Brandon has ever gone to someone like King for advice on having an adaptation made
I hope not
As of the Defiant release event, it is known that it was Mistborn and it fell through. 😢
This aged like chouta left out on the broken plains.
Agreed lol
Congratulations!
I’m waiting Mr Sanderson
I do hope that that there are stipulations that the Cosmere properties are being kept as a group, and haven't been tranched apart.
I'm quire certain no one wants a repeat of what happened with Marvel, where Sony still controls Spider-Man movies, and Universal controls solo Hulk Films.
I don't really see a huge issue with the cosmere branches going to different studios. Yeah its a shared universe and some stuff crosses over, but at this point outside of a particular sword there's not really any overlap.
Maybe, maybe it could be written in "all productions have to include Hoid, and use the same actor" and just Stan Lee cameo him in until he's important.
Like if Edgedancer was getting adapted, yeah I'd want that to be the same studio doing Stormlight... but if Mistborn or Elantris or Alcatraz were completely separate it wouldn't be a big deal.
Sure eventually way down the line there might be bigger more important crossing over but from the books we have currently nothing that big. Brandon knows better than us what would need to be kept together.
If SA was adapted faithfully, it would be the best fantasy show available, no doubt. It would be very high budget though, due to all of the fantastical locations, powers, and spren.
Imagine seeing Whitespine Uncaged on screen. I would love that.
@@viola_case that has to be one of the best chapters to see in action Also To Kill and Ten Heartbeats
well whatever he had at the time obviously fell through lol
Where is this at ? Absolutely do not give up final say on anything.
Who do you think is adapting it? Netflix? With the success of sandman ?
Nothing has been signed and he hasn't said outright but he has kind of implied that it's Netflix for Mistborn
Sandman was a success?
@@joshuahavens4059 yes
I have faith an adaptation of mistborn would be 🔥 on the bjg screen. Get Denis Villeneuve in the directors seat and gimme that Dune level cinematography.
I'm desperate for adaptation news! Nothing so far.
If made into a tv miniseries. It can be rated tv-14. The television equivalent of pg-13. It doesn't need an r rating. Which will not be accessible to wider audiences. Pg-13 or tv-14 is the better choice of a Stormlight Archive adaptations. For Films and television alike.
You can't call yourself a fan of the fantasy genre. Without mentioning the lord of the rings. Don't make it another game of thrones. The lord of the rings paved the way for every epic fantasy story in history. Alongside Narnia, and Earthsea.
I get superhero characters need to roughly be episodic adventures and no aging in real time. That doesn't have to be a problem to novels, fantasy, rpgs, anime and manga, even horror and westerns. These genres aside from superheroes. Doesn't have its characters and stories be back to normal. It has pernamate changes. Like character development and progress, sometimes the stories of these characters age in years like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson. That's one flaw I noticed. In comics. More specifically, superhero tales. This needs to change.
Let me be honest. Deviations from novels, comics, video games, etc. Need to happen. It is sometimes a reason to experiment. Don't just copy its source material and call it a day. Let the adaptations be its own thing.
To me, fantasy is not just television. Cinema has a place for the genre too. Fantasy books have the right to exist as movies whether people like it or not. It has a right to be made. I care. Books can be done anyway it wants to become. Mistborn has the potential and right to be made as a film. I don't want any "no, buts, why, or how dare they you!" stuff. It has to happen, it needs to happen. I had enough of this nonsense and nitpicking. That was a few years ago! Yet, people are still doing this. This needs to stop! Deal with it. Times are always changing. Earthsea would have better as a film series instead. I am okay if there are deviations and cut out some plot points alike. Too many subplot points can also may story convoluted and confusing too. Keep very little subplots while keeping the main plot intact. That is my idea of doing book adaptations as films and tv shows. Fantasy still has a place for cinema, not just tv. It better have a right to exist in the first place.
Please Brandon don't let hollywood ruin your stories!!
Any updates on this?
Not happening
We are six months later, I hope we will soon have more info ! :D
And I see a lot of people being annoyed with a possible gender swap. Personnally I don't care, I really don't think it will change the story or the interaction that these character have with Vin or on the overall story. I have confidence in Sanderson to make it work nicely, and can't wait to see the first news !
So he did give an update in the state of the sanderson. He said it’s possible we may not have an announcement in 2023.
I don’t mind a gender swap. The only crew member who I wouldn’t swap is unfortunately the one it sounds like is likely to be changed. Ham. In the book, a big part of Hams character is he’s a fighter and uses pewter just enough to give him an edge in all his fights but not enough that an inquisitor would catch onto him being an allomancer. If Ham is a woman and routinely fighting trained soldiers and always winning, someone would notice and put together that she’s probably a a thug. Then they could report her to the inquisitors. Any other member of the crew would work for me tho.
@@cosmerejunkie7931
I can't wait for them to make TenSoon an Inquisitor.
Yeah, in the year of sanderson he mentioned we may not get official news even in 2023! 😢 but yeah. The only character I think is important not to gender swap is Ham. If a woman was a thug and undefeated in every fight the inquisitors would find out she was a misting and their whole job makes a lot more sense for the kind of work they’d be doing
Where can I find the full video of this?
Just fresh off of Dune part 2 releasing, what's the update now I wonder?
As long as it is Mistborn and not Stormlight
I really hope it is Stormlight and not Mistborn
Stormlight will have to wait a couple more years for the vfx technology to advance a little more
@@chaserichardson305 Why? We are only 4 books into 10 and Sanderson is taking a break for a few years after Stormlight 5. Why in the world would you want a Stormlight adaptation right now? It would be absolutely terrible and people would end up recast/the story will go off the rails considering we aren't even halfway through the series and it will likely be 20+ years before it is completed. It is simply too early.
Mistborn has a completed story, with multiple eras of new characters that make it much more realistic to adapt right now, considering they could go an Era at the time. Stormlight doesn't have that luxury. And I don't trust studios with modern day Fantasy adaptations after Wheel of Time.
Is there any updates?
What do I have to do to get an audition for a Cosmere character?
same lmao
Step 1 go to Brandon's house
Step 2 pretend to be one of his children
Step 3 "yo pops can I act in your movie?" 🥺
Is that a Shallan doll in the background?
Please don't let it be a WOT hatchet job.
You mean the very well done adaptation that Brandon not only praised, but looks to as a guide for his adaptations?
@@dylanb2990 which adaptation was that?
@@dylanb2990 The show was awful imo. Stupid plotting, direct contradictions to the book that made it objectively worse, and wildly cheap feeling. But I'm glad you enjoyed it. I don't think Sanderson was being honest about his opinion on the show due to his ties to the franchise, but I guess there's no way to know.
Soooooo is it still happening 😂😂😂😂
In the state of the Sanderson he takes about delays. I’m sure part of it has been the writers strike and actors strike
@@cosmerejunkie7931 awww of course didn't take that into consideration. I just hope we get some news soon 😂😂😂
So it’s Mistborn, then?
Does this mean the properties are bought out forever by one company?
No; he wasn’t totally clear but it sounds like instead of paying him over time for the 5 year rights (or whatever amount of time) they are paying all the money up front.
@@WPeter96 I just hope that all
Cosmere adaptations are really good! I know Mistborn is more popular than Elantris, but I think Elantris would have made a great movie to start the Cosmere off!
Mistborn really should be an anime i think it would be more popular than a movie or tv show just cause the powers are hard to get looking good in live action and I just see corruption there egotistical showrunners not having enough time or money to do the story justice, CGI looking bad, etc. While i was reading it i was just thinking anime the whole time.
Stormlight I agree, Mistborn no. The powers aren't that complex or flashy. Its telekinesis, hulk jumps, and lots of hand-to-hand combat essentially. I think live action would work fine and I'd prefer that format for Mistborn because animated mediums wouldn't be able to capture the ambiance or seriousness properly imo. I read The Magicians by Lev Grossman not too long after Mistborn and the show for that is great, even with the deviations.
Yeah but the flying around would probably look dumb as hell in live action and i doubt they would do the fights justice in live action for mistborn. The way Brandon describes his fights are very anime like. Where as you read something like Red rising and the way its described is very gritty and real. @@OblivionZX Plus what anime have you been watching there is no better format for capture little details or emotion. its a very broad genre there is cyberpunk, arcane, castlevania, jujustu kai, there you look at rurouni kenshin, then there are the studio gibili types. Lots of different styles and lots of different ways of going about things. I think you are getting the week to week anime confused with the more artsy studios cause not all anime is dumb action and lack of seriousness, not every anime is my hero academia. i mean look at kill bill
Will Sanderson cameo?
Most likely. He wants to
I think cosmere should be anime. At least mistborn
Call me selfish….but I’d much rather have more Stormlight books being written than see him spending time on adaptations 😁. If I had a few million to burn I’d offer to pay him to NOT collaborate with Hollywood 😐.
Why?
@@dylanb2990 I'd rather have more Stormlight books than some lame video adaptation.
@@dylanb2990 books > Hollywood garbage
Its been a YEAR! Are they on set?
Unlikely. There’s a writers and actors strike against the major studios, who probably were offering him the most money.
Unfortunately, bad news in that department. Everything was scraped and it sounds like they're back at square one
So now...?
well he's just saying more of the same things he was saying about the Wheel of Time and we all know how that turned out...
Bump :(
Where are these clips from?
His TH-cam channel most recent live stream
Last thing we want to see is a ring of power / WOT disaster.
Hope it turns out better for him than it did Robert Jordan, or George Lucas, or GRRMartin, or CS Lewis, or Tolkien, or ....
Do you really trust Hollywood to do his work any justice? Come on now!
@@joshuahavens4059 No, hence my long list of hollywood defilements?
Hi. Filmmaker here. Your title's misleading. NOTHING about this says production WILL begin any time soon. Nothing's a done deal until there's signed paperwork, and even then it's not 100% certain. We can start rejoicing when production ACTUALLY begins.
The video title and thumbnail never claimed to tell us when to “start rejoicing”. And the title never used words like confirmed which I certainly would’ve used it it had. I’m sorry it bothered you tho! Have a nice day!
Can’t wait for Kelsier to be a black trans woman
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Yoooo!
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I don't care about movies or tv series. I want games based on The Stormlight Archive
Vin = Jenna Ortega...yes or no?
She wouldn’t be bad. I don’t know if I’ve seen her in similar roles to vin so hopefully it would be good
Too tall.
@@Max_Le_Groom she’s 5’1”. That’s not too tall at all.
no
she is maisie williams
@@creepyghost928
too old.
When was this originally streamed?
Did anyone else notice the figurine of Shallan in the background on the right side?
Hopefully Brandon doesn't budge and does deny anything woke...
I'm afraid that is not entirely his decision to make. Quotas and other such stuff comes down from waaaaay high up.
Sanderson is a liberal
His books already have all the female power, beautifully diverse cast, hints of queerness and moral struggles needed. I don't think it'll be too hard to keep it from flying off his vision for agenda purposes.
@@marenkendall7413Sadly this not a guarantee. Wheel of Time books have even more female empowerment, yet Amazon turned into a spectacular train wreck in this regard.
@@overdan that's fair
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The goal is to be in production in sixty-eight months?
'six to eight'
@@fl0xtez someone hasn’t watched enough Madagascar, Rico.
@@aaronzaugg9040 haha true, haven't seen it
SAD
Hollywood must be chomping at the bit for this. Imagine the potential themes of sexism and racism that they can lean in to with this material...
I wish i had more hope hollywood wouldnt make it into propaganda
Oh I can only hope this ends being good. Sandman ended being rather poor show even with Gaiman direct involvment. Foundation was horribe, WoT also and it seems LOTR will also be rather poor adaptation.
how was it a poor show
At ICON Tel Aviv a few weeks ago I heard from his beta readers that he thinks adaptations are a new creation and therefore it's okay to deviate from the original, and he wants to use the opportunity to fix issues of representation in his novels by giving some characters a sex change.
IMO that's horribly wrong. The whole point of the adaptation is to watch the book. Any deviation from the book is a flaw. If he wants more representation he can just write new books. I don't mind if 100% of the characters are black women or whatever, just don't change existing characters.
Spoken like someone who thinks that book fans are the target audience for adaptations. We aren't, we're the pre-show hype and free marketing. Making a show for only the fans wouldn't make any financial sense, we are too small of a community to generate the viewing numbers that would make it worth producing. Even if the books fans hate it, we still wouldn't have much of an impact if we stopped watching it, and even the negativity of the fanbase would help market the show even more. The general audience is the target audience.
Plus, novels and film are two different mediums, what works in one probably wouldn't work in the other. And some deviations are necessary, like both IT adaptions removing the underage sewer orgy. Again, the preexisting fans of any series do not have enough numbers to justify making a show only for them when even the lowest budget of these adaptations goes to the millions in terms of budgets.
Usually the changes make the adaptation worse.
GRRM2.0. I'm calling it now
Once you get a taste of real money. Why write these massive books when you can do 5 percent of the work and gett PAID. Im happy for him but damn. Makes you think
That will not happen. Brandon loves writing too much and he's very focused on finishing the Cosmere.
He also said in an earlier livestream or maybe on Intentionally Blank that Hollywood doesn't know what to do with writers who don't care about their money. That's not his motivation and he can be very discerning about who he decides to do collaborate with.
He just had the biggest kickstarter in history. He's already being paid and very well at that.
He’s said he already never has to work another day in his life based on his success as an author. That was before the Kickstarter and before the movies and TV series. So he already had enough money to never work again and he wrote 5 secret projects in the pandemic. The man isn’t anything like GRRM when it comes to work ethic
Hopefully brandon keeps control so no white washing in the stormlight archive especially with the male characters