Brandon Sanderson - When Will There Be Movies or Video Games Based on My Books? 

It would probably fit best as an animated series imo, that could be so good - imagine if it got the Castlevania treatment

@@viktorlindqvist5308 I think it deserves even better treatment

@@Navhkrin I would agree that I would hope for it to be better, I merely used it as a reference seeing how great of an adaptation it was. If it can get a treatment even better? - Great!

100% this. But it would devour Brandon.

I kind of want a full-on Stormlight anime Edit: ok this is definitely a popular opinion

Its great i can jump onto his website and get a view on how far he is through his upcoming books too. Really gives the feeling he knows where his ideas are going and how quickly hes going to get there. I dont every worry about when im going to see the next stormlight book as opposed to say....the next ASOIAF book. He's active on reddit too and you see him pop up from time to time with status updates and answering random questions. Really refreshing.

Jamesbiff yeah. It’s awesome, and a really refreshing change as compared to, like, Patrick Rothfuss

I love that he puts out books on a regular basis, not 10+ years between books

@@TokyoBlue587 yeah he’s a fast writer

But I like Patrick Rothfuss better cause he treats his fans like shit and he takes 20 years to write 3 books.

🤣

it would just be six hours of Vin sitting in the carriage in transit between Luthadel and Fellise

That's why you show it for a few seconds then skip the rest.

Sazed just sitting at a desk reading through the religion portfolios for hours

lmao just kal being depressed in his room. 10/10

this is it! this is what we need

@@The-One-and-Only imo that style would fit Stormlight better. Those 7 foot long shardblades might look kinda goofy live action but great in that animation style.

@@drakejemeyson7547 now that I started reading Stormlight couldn’t agree more

There are so many stories I want brought to life by that studio. Storm Light was my first thought when I watched Arcane but I was also knee deep in reading that series at the time.

I always felt that Arcane reminded me of Mistborn

You mean the michael jordan playing baseball level of screenwriting.

Humblebrag

Always has been

lol almost miss that part cause it's too nature

@@Vin-sv9fm that’s he on par with an icon and greatness

There are so many jump cuts, we know he wrote a few novels in between those.

He is called The Sanderbot for a reason🤣

This ^

Haha

We don't see his feet so for all we know, he might be still writing 👀

They can put a anime version of it in the trash for all i care.

The day that happens I will die of happiness! I'm on Dawnshard right now, but I imagine the nostalgia trip such a series would have years down the road

@@alexworm1707 Funny, I don't see anyone asking for your opinion on anime... though I can tell by your abundance of likes that it was at the very least well received

Yeah I imagine Kakadu. As a goku type haha

@@alexworm1707 Anime would be a great and cheaper way to introduce a larger audience into the series which would in return probably yield more adaptations. If they were to make Stormlight Archive series like GOT or HOTD, they'd need A LOT of seasons or else we'd miss a lot of stuff from the books

With how the film industry is right now I'm a bit worried about it becoming a corporate cash-grab but it seems like Brandon is really ensuring that something like that does not happen.

@@recarsion Easier said than done when it comes to Hollywood, excuse my pessimism.

I’d love that, but I’d love Steelheart even more. I love the stories like that, the “what if there were no heroes” type stories

24 episode seasons might cover it. But Game of Thrones cut way too much stuff because they were trying to do a season per book. Thats still the old way of thinking. Just translate the text into scenes, and don't worry about the rest. If Book 1 is 15 hour long episodes but book 2 ends up being 21 episodes, WHO CARES. Netflix needs to start doing this.

C Bob sure, I’d be down for whatever works better. But I don’t know if you’d need 24 episodes a season. The 1st book takes 26 hours to read, and I’d say that half of the time reading is spent on this that could be shown on screen in one or two scenes, so you cut out a lot of time there. Maybe 18 would be better, but that still seems excessive to me. Unlimited time does not lead to better tv, you do need to have limits to keep directors from making overly long and boring seasons

@@halion4487 All depends on episode length. I was just trying to make a point that even Netflix is kind of sticking to the 30 minute - hour long episode lengths when these services aren't constrained by ad breaks anymore, so they can just tell the story page by page, scene by scene, chapter by chapter 🖖🏻🤘🏻👍🏻

@@halion4487 True, but if we're talking about an animated series that's usually 20 mins per episode so it'd be 24 episodes=8 hours, which might be a bit small for stormlight, but great for most books.

C Bob I prefer a 30 or 60 minute episode. But you are correct, I wouldn’t mind a 45 minute standard, as it tends to cut out the unnecessary parts of 60 minute shows without being the quick watch of a 30 minute episode

Dishonored is pretty close

Similar Batman Arkham.

One like The witcher 3, can you imagine? would be fucking awesome

@@midnightpizzagoblin Yeah, that's why it's like my favorite game of all time hahaha

Man I wish CD Projekt red would pick up Mistborn for their next title, that would be like the dream.

That would be cool! Maybe drop my producer an email? Adam@brandonsanderson.com

@@BrandSanderson W

Wow, this is great man. Hope great things come from this!

Big dubs

Gotta give us a update on this!

My thoughts exactly. Im reading through the 3rd book atm. I can just visualize all the crazy stuff in Roshar

Shadesmar alone would be too difficult

Yeah animated for sure like how would they even do Kaladin vs Szeth at the end of book 2 in live action

100% Stormlight in animation is the only way.

Do we know nearly enough about the world?

@@vy1585 probably not, but CK3's new modding tools give the mod a lot of potential.

@@vy1585 You should see what they did with the Game of Thrones mod in CK2 (and coming CK3), probably the religions are most clear. Not a lot of stuff to go on, but people just want the universe.

I made a roshar map for civ 6 once which kinda worked it wasnt balanced very well but it kinda worked

Same for the new Mount and Blade

I agree

Definitely agree on Mistborn as a trilogy. I struggle to see how to split Way of Kings into eight satisfying shows though. I can't see the Tower betrayal being anything other than the entire second last episode (with Dalinar's confrontation with Sadeas being the start of the final episode) - but how do you fill up six episodes before that? What is the climax at the end of each? First one ends with Kaladin's first bridge run, second with the greatshell hunt, third with Kaladin being sentenced to be strung up - then what? Or does it become a five episode 'series'? GoT was somewhat unique in that the first book has a staggering number of events happening.

@@sirgog you can have more than 8

@@sirgog Every episode doesn't have to end with a climax... however, the ending of each part could easily be the end of an episode... My question is the interludes... some will just have to be cut I think. Plus, the two prologues with chapter 1 could be episode 1... that would be one hell of an introduction... the Heralds decision, Szeth killing the king, and Kaladin fighting in Amarams army. What a start to a Show...

@@sirgog yo I've watched some of your poe videos cool to see you here cheers man.

I think it would also be an incredible video game. idk.

I would LOVE to see Skyward as a movie! It would be incredible as long as the producers didn't throw anything trashy in it

fuck yeah, it will be awesome

I like Brandon’s idea of the first and last books being movies and the middle one being a TV show

Yes but with building sets not green screen.

Yes and no woke for profit BS, boy did they Fuck up The Hobbit, straight storyline no deviation, period otherwise don't let them make it, creative control must be approved by you or no deal. Eragon could have been epic but look what Disney did to that as well.

I prefer a series, like The Dark Matter

the push and pull mechanics will be pretty hard. It will need the new ps4 spider man level of web swinging mechanism but harder. Mistborn era 2 can be better adapted with less mistborn mechanics.

The full open world platform is almost a decade old... I think it's time to move on. Also many games do it and I feel like less than half need it and less than half of that do it well.

Would be interesting to have the core mechanics revolve around unkeyed metalminds that you build and can swap in the field to use different power sets.

Personally, I always liked the idea of Mistborn being like Dishonored. Action/stealth with cool powers and gadgets is already basically the Mistborn formula. Dishonored also has a really cool “oil-painting” aesthetic that I think would capture Luthadel, the mists, and environment very well. I am a sucker for RPGs though, so I wouldn’t mind a Witcher style Mistborn either.

You guys gonna hate me, but I can see a Mistborn game in maybe 5-10 years....in VR. Thats were the mechanics of pull and push could transfer really well. VR is still pretty niche, but its coming. !RemindMe 5 years Edit: oh and a Assassins Creed game for VR is already in development. Lets see how this will work out.

I think I would actually cry with happiness if the Castlevania team took over a huge Mistborn project...maybe longer than a Castlevania season for each novel (I'd say 8 40-minute eps).

Tbh I can't imagine era 1 mistborn as anything other than live action. Era 2 tho, wax and wayne as a legend of korra style animated show would be **chef's kiss**

@@mattisanimation2373 no way man, all the Mistborn stuff would look great either in Castlevania/Last Airbender style. But maybe you're not as terrified as I am of them cocking up the casting for Vin/Kelsier if it was live action.

@@Bragglord oh yeah no, 100% casting is terrifying! Still tho, personally i feel the grit and darkness of era 1 would come across better in live action. Has to be said though, attack on titan is a great example of how amazing mistborn movement could look in animation

@@Bragglord Yes! Another option, would be the Arcane art style.

Seems too good to be true, but that would be amazing.

It's got to happen eventually. It's hard to get into Hollywood, but once they have a proven success they just throw money at it. Look at JK Rowling and the Fantastic Beasts movies, they'll make anything she writes into a movie.

That is my definition of a perfect utopia

@@dreamingblue3939 Considering the GOT show came out 25 years after the original books release it could definitely still happen for Mistborn and stormlight

@@vallano8970 15 years actually. And it's been 15 years since Mistborn came out too. By the time book 5 for Stormlight comes out, it'll be nearly 15 years for that series too.

lmao someone NEEDS to reach out to the creators of avatar and just be like “find branden sanderson and work with him NOW”

MastaNoah Exactly! Someone find them now...

Facts

And with Hiroyuki Sawano doing the soundtrack👌

@@anicealien that would be legendary. Kevin Penkin could be good as well

Allomancy is a great video game mechanic

They did it for LotR... But I do agree on everything else with the magic. It is the one system that I am most afraid to see in a movie theater live action if it ever happens.

​@@timdegriselles1216 Although I agree with the Orc and Parshendi parts, I do see the rest being really hard to do. Roshar is simply too fantastic and alien

@@willphoenix5464 it's true. I've always hoped that Brando Sando isn't wanting stormlight to be live action.

@@willphoenix5464 I agree, the world for the most part is basically stone, with pretty much every single plant and animal save for those from Shinovar being completely unlike anything on Earth. They would have to make up tons of new plant models, and have to film in a place without any soil or grass at all. Basically it would be impossible to do right.

If they did dune they can do roshar

Well... He is a smart writer. He knows the shits.

He only said that early seasons of GoT got away with being extremely faithful to the source material which often doesn't work out that great. I agree with him and I really like the first season but in retrospect I find it quite boring. After reading the books I realized how little the season added to the source material. It was like the first two Harry Potter movies that Brandon mentioned. That's why I like season 4 the most: I think it's a perfect blend of old and new. It felt fresh while also being very faithful.

Would be amazing but I think Stormlight would be impossible to make live action. Mistborn would work though

Preach!

@@Franc--sg7zo Stormlight is not ready for a movie, with the current technology. Maybe 20 years later, otherwise I would like to see an animation of it.

Storm light *has* to be animated

I wonder if TOR has some kind of exclusivity contract with Amazon. Would make it hard to do WoT and Stormlight at the same time

That's what I came to post, definitely Arkane. The flexibility in approach you get in Dishonored would work fantastically with Mistborn.

Arkane would capture it well with their smooth gameplay design but their problem has always been weak narrative, if they get better writers that are familiar with the Mistborn world, then yes, that'd be good.

@@indoril6923 well, the problem is adapting the characters and narrative. How they would adapt the inner thought of someone like Vin into something like a video game is very hard. Video game stories can be amazing, Nier Automata(the best), God of War, The Witcher, etc. But adapting novels would be hard as hell.

I've thought of binds for controller already on how you could control the magic

lol yea, especially with the giant shard blades/plate, and the magic stuff, it definitely sounds like an anime

100 % agree with you.. I ll loose my mind if they make a cheap shitty adaptation of Stormlight.

They need a big massive budget if they are to adapt Stormlight.

CD Project Red or Arcane studios could probably make a great game outta Mistborn

Or CDPR could make a game in a new Cosmere series with the world built by Brandon ala what George R. R. Martin is doing with From Software

Mistborn is perfect for a game. The loop of leveling up your weak/minor allomancy into the strong/major. Having different availability of the metals to find throughout then world and having to choose when to burn certain ones. Building a team of companions based on their powers. Stealth, Tech tree, base building, ancient lore, "flying." Multiplayer would be amazing.

@@kit7916 Arcane would be an amazing choice. They treat the core concepts right

If the series are not easy to adapt to games, they should make a new story in the same world with the magic systems. I bet it would be safer

Que haces aquí pakinov? No imaginé que también leyeras a Sanderson XD

Ah, veo que también eres un hombre de cultura.

No me esperaba al grande de paki leyendo Sanderson xD

There's also a Mistborn one :)

There is a Stormlight Archive board game?! 🤯

Ahem... SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Ready reckoners, I thought “wow, this will never be a movie due to the crazy environments: all steel, sunken New York, and a salt Atlanta.

@@carsonrush3352 sorry reading.

I agree. Mistborn and Reckoners have really efficient plots, point a to b, but stormlight is waaaaay to long with waaaaay to many characters

the swords are huge, like anime things are in general

The only thing I disagree with is in Mistborn as a live-action film. For me it should be animated. The fight scenes would be way more epic, even the art design would way easier in this regard. Especially for complex magic systems, I think animation is the way to go(maybe because I am a big fan of Avatar, and I am scared that a Mistborn live-action would be as bad as the Avatar one).

I would love a Stormlight anime, but only if it doesn't have those anime "tropes." A lot of things I don't like about anime can be summed up into: Fanservice a surplus of Inner dialogues Characters constantly just saying the things that are happening, such as narrating very obvious scenes like we couldn't figure it out on our own (like a scene in Fate Bladeworks where one of the characters is remarking "oh wow, my arm feels so numb and stiff, I wonder why that is" when no one is around, and that bugs me) Fight scenes where a dude throws a punch and the next two minutes are everyone watching talking about the exact details of that punch and why it's so cool (I'm looking at you, JoJo) Characters acting over the top in the most inorganic way (Like the scene in Persona 4 the Animation where Yosuke breaks a DVD belonging to Chie, apologizes, and promises to pay her back, and what does she do? She runs over there and kicks him in between the legs! What in the name of roast turkey) Bad English dubs (obviously this wouldn't really apply to a Stormlight anime, but still) I don't think Stormlight would suffer from some of these automatically, but I just really hope it can avoid all of them

@@charlieh7529 Well I am glad you disagree, I am really torn about Mistborn being animated vs live action because of characters like OreSuer and Sazed who have very unique powers. But I also feel like how internalized 90% of the powers are it would be a really great way to see how human the people of Scadrial are.

Even 1.5hr for that one to be honest. Short and (bitter)sweet

It just might not be the most entertaining movie... especially to people who are not invested in the Cosmere

@@Want300 yeah the emperors soul relies a lot on internal exposition. maybe if they did a kind of narration in a diary style it would work

This is my favorite book. Have a signed copy ♥️

There's no reason an adaption couldn't expand on what's in the book. You could show the Emperor's life in flashbacks, you could show the attempted assassination, you could show more political stuff, you could show the attempted theft of the scepter, etc. If the movie was filmed artistically and philosophically with an eye for elevating the cinematography, think certain Wuxia films, people would forgive a slower pace.

With Hollywood as it is today.. Shallan will be a black woman with brown eyes, Kaladin will be a white guy with blonde hair and green eyes, Dalinar will be Japanese with brown eyes, and Adolin will be HIspanic with jet black hair and brown eyes. Never mind that these characters have set nationalities/races within the world they live in.. not to mention familial relations.

@@eno2870 Yeah, there goes Kaladin's black hair and dark eyes (while not holding Syl)

Eno I know. All in the name of inclusivity. Like it’s not inclusivity if you have to change entire aspects of a character already planned out. (enters J.K. Rowling)

@@eno2870 This seems like a weird point to make. That's not actually a normal thing when those parts are vital to the plot. That happens almost exclusively when the race is non-white in modern adaptations like Ghost in the Shell. Like, J.K. Rowling changed her characters, but that wasn't even for an adaptation, and the things she changed doesn't actually matter for the plot, so who cares? Hermione being Black changes basically nothing of import, so why not be inclusive? Her books had basically no representation except that added on by meta text, so is it really that bad to add it where it doesn't hurt? I guarantee I can name 10 times the amount of stories where such things were changed in the favor of white people than you can where inclusivity was the reasoning. Even more so for stories where that even matters.

@@dig8634 - It's an issue when it causes a breakdown in the world building. Look at the casting for The Wheel of Time as an example. It makes no sense whatsoever that there would be so much racial diversity in a tiny backwater village that doesn't even know who their own queen is, or that they're part of a kingdom at all. The same could be said for Netflix's The Witcher, though admittedly it was less of a problem (and more of a problem in some ways) in that series. Those characters were drawn from all over the world, so it was normal to expect racial diversity.. but it was still extremely disappointing to see one of the main characters changed in basically every way imaginable to the point that she really only shared her name with her namesake. Also - why be inclusive purely for inclusiveness sake? In your Harry Potter example, the books are set in Great Britain. Depending on the area you're talking about the percentage of the population that is black ranges from .2% to 3.5%. It makes sense that there wouldn't be many (or any) black characters (though there are some). Great Britain isn't a terribly racially diverse place, with nearly 90% of the population being white and most of the remainder being Asian (which is again represented as a minority). Those films were actually the RIGHT way to handle diversity - cast your actors to represent the characters as they are in the context of their own world/setting. In the case of Stormlight Archives, I'd be disappointed if I didn't see darker skinned (hispanic perhaps?) actors playing the Alethi characters. Same goes for the Veden ones, which should be pale skinned, with some (or even many) have red hair (Irish?). Eye, hair, and skin tones should match what's in the book - because each of those things is integral to that character's identity and history. Adolin's blonde/black hair says something about his parentage. Shallan's red hair means that her family intermarried with the Unkalaki in the past, and that while she's a lighteyes her family isn't (or wasn't always) well off. Modern Hollywood just doesn't seem to get that they undermine their own world building drastically by casting actors that don't fit the character and the world they live in.

And how did that turn out?

Thoughts on additional metals: Tin could be like AC eagle vision pulse stuff, highlight meaningful things. Pewter would probably be somewhat automatic in use, or like a quick heal type thing while having it available, maybe to power up an attack too Copper would be kind of a stealth mode option to turn on Bronze could do a subtle visual cue in the direction of someone burning metals Soothing and rioting could be a complicated subsystem, or something as simple as making people attack others, like an AC berserker dart I also think subtley seeing all the lines to metal object would be cool

Have you read the second Mistborn series yet?

@@loganmontgomery1955 not yet, no

@@mariob411 It's worth reading i think, you should.

@@loganmontgomery1955 I plan on it :) just not sure when

Antoine Bandele Oh My God! Like, I’m literally just from seeing the Bolin And Eska video and here you are! You’re a fan of Sanderson too! What’s your fave book of his?

What is the POA movies?

@@thequeensthief5593 I think that is a reference to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. PoA=Prisoner of Azkaban in Potterspeak. I don't think the OP intended to make it plural.

i used to watch your vids when i was 14 lol

Lol, He invented culture

Give it to Ufotable. Their CGI department is uniquely suited for biochroma lighting.

oh god, please no

I still really want to see it live action, but maybe an avatar the last airbender but for older style show.

Totally agree!

@@coltonbyu Why not

Yes! I agree 100%

If they turn any of his books I to an anime I will hunt them down and castrate them. Animated is fine. Especially well animated. But no weaboos. Go away

@@Cryogenius333 anime doesnt necesarily mean weabos. Even inside the anime cominity there are different divisions depending on the genre. The weabos you mention probably are the kind of otakus that like echi, and shit like that. But there are genres in anime such as shounen, seinen, action, fantasy/supernatural/superpowers that feels kinda similar to the Cosmere. And the japanese voice actors are leagues above other languages. I think the Cosmere would be well recieved by the anime comunity even if they dont know the books

@@Cryogenius333 I only wanted to defend a little bit the anime comunity, of course if the Cosmere gets animated adaptation it probably wouldnt be by a japanese studio

@@august4471 A balanced and well put answer.

maybe because the focus was more on the actual things people were interested in. Which is the magical world and how it's like living in it, not Harry and gang vs no-nose racist person

Haiiry Cake yeah third and second were the best books

@@mrana2424 I also kinda liked half blood prince

That’s because you had Alfonso Cuaron working on it. Very strong auteur sort of director.

Prisoner of Azkaban is the strongest Harry Potter

But it was still seen as to...anti-Christian, right?

Yah it was way too afraid of annoying people. The tv show is good though.

Considering the backlash was still there about the books "killing god" directly. *Cough*Metatronisnotgod*cough*

@@overlorde7526 oh...there was a tv show?? did they finish the story there?

@@daddyleon the second season is about to come out on HBO.

The legend of Korra wasn't that good in my opinion, they tried to stuff too much political and social commentary into it to the point that it detracted from the experience. The OG avatar series, however, was just amazing in every aspect, so I would like to see what they could do with it.

@@NightmareBlade10 I prefer The Legend Of Korra over the original show, so agree to disagree. But, yeah, O feel they could do something incredible with Stormlight.

Maybe Genndy Tartakovsky would be a bether choice... i've never imagined Stormlight in anime form of animation...

THIS!!!!

I join on that

Better is an Animation since "anime" means that Japanese companies must do it and it must have that particular design, I would prefer a western design for the cosmere in general.

@@sastersbroth8117 I agree but disagree. You're right about the designe, but you cant deny that the emotion that japanese voice actors give are leagues above any other language (I often see dubs in latinamerican spanish and english and they're not necesarily bad, but japanese is way better.). Even if they get animated by an american studio, I'd probably look for the japanese dub LOL

@@august4471 I write about design, not voices (that's another issue that is resolved with what you said ... see the dubbing that you like the most), by design I mean proportions, colors, style, etc. There are also many people who confuse "anime" with "animation" so I clarified it.

@@sastersbroth8117 I see what you saying. As Im a big fan of both, I wouldnt have a problem BUT now that I think about it, a western design would be better. It'd be more universally appealled, for us westerns and Orientals

Xylon Pesquera have you heard what they did with the Earthsea? I was so disappointed

@@Morfeusm That was the first movie directed by Miyazaki's son Goro. He was young, inexperienced, and was pushed to take on the project when he didn't feel up to it. So.. not the best example of what Studio Ghibli is capable of. A better example of a fantasy book adaptation done by Ghibli might be Howl's Moving Castle.

If you're specifically looking for a board game (not video game), you can buy the Stormlight Archives game right now: www.brotherwisegames.com/stormlight Do be aware it's not really trying to adapt the plot or characters: rather, it's about crafting your own character in the world, borrowing key plot beats from canon, but ultimately crafting your own story. So it may not be what you had in ind.

Randall Wald thank you! I’ve watched some RU-vid videos about it and thought it looked cool. Maybe I’ll add it to my holiday wishlist or something. Thanks for commenting ❤️

I think that the metals could be divided into hotkeys, so your left mouse is to use the push variant of a metal, right mouse for the pull variant, then you can use the number keys to specify which metals you want to burn. Also, I think that a potential feature that colud solve metal targeting is maybe a little graphic one the corner of the screen that points towards all of the metals around you with blue lines. It could possibly be a sphere, with the middle being the player, and then blue lines pointing outwards towards the metal sources. The issue would be telling the game which blue line you want to push/pull from.

I imagined a similar Mechanic to dishonored.

Yes

I honestly can’t see it animated. I think it would be good that way, but I can’t imagine it. I think live action stormlight would look amazing

Bronson Patten I think it would be best live action too. It would have to be a GoT style

@@nbeutler1134 It would need to be 95% CGI though. A lot of the people don't look like real-world humans, almost nothing of the world looks like actual Earth. It would be super expensive and would still feel artificial.

@@faultier1158 I agree... And imo, Roshar is way too fantastical to work well as a live action. I think an animated medium would accommodate Stormlight's weirdness a lot better.

I just always imagine drawing the fight scenes when I'm reading them. How incredibly cool it would look to animate Seth's movements during intense fights. Imagine the perspective of the camera shifting to align with the one using the gravity surges, and then cutting to the perspective of those on the ground to really give you a feeling of how the surges work! And thinking about the incredibly smooth movements of the more experienced windrunners like Seth flipping and twisting as he falls in different directions.