Here is the primary source:
https://www.brandonsanderson.com/blogs/blog/state-of-the-sanderson-2025#video-games
I’ve been a big Sanderson fan for a long time. I’ll be super happy if the Cosmere is adapted to any other format, but if it’s not a good adaptation, forget it.
And Vice is reporting on “a game could enter development, we’re talking to studios about it.”
They’re farming clicks.
Could be fun. I just desperately want an animated adaptation of the Stormlight Archives. Mistborn would be a killer three season animated show too.
Somewhere between Spiderman and Arkham Asylum style games would really work really well.
The setting of the first book was very cloak and dagger with lots of similarly and overly powered opponents.
Book 2 and 3 got turned on thier head and you’d probably want to slowly adapt towards Prototype or inFamous as the setting loses its cloak and dagger story elements.
Never heard of it before though I’m interested in adaptations of books but that’s more in hopes of ones I like getting something
Just FYI, the series devolves into Mormon propaganda in the first trilogy. I wasn’t sure why the third book felt so off until I saw that Sanderson went to Brigham Young University. I also talked to an ex-Mormon friend of mine, and he apparently noped out halfway through the first book when he saw the signs
I bet I wouldn’t have even noticed on my own, I liked battlefield earth till I saw videos pointing out the problems
ill never forgive his homophobic bigotry and defense of the LDS church. i realize he tried to reform, but i believe he did it for sales. Dude is toxic, regardless of his capitalist reforms
Bro lost me on the first “secret project” book deal. A crowd funded campaign to release like 4 books that “will never be on audible or kindle” as this big stance against the audible/kindle monopoly.
He pulled in $43 million.
What did he do? Put the books up on audible and kindle less than 6 months later with a half assed social media post about how he “won” better conditions for VAs and bigger cuts for authors.
What a crock of shit. Here comes the fattest grifter of the LDS church, again, to fuck up yet another media format with his horseshit.
Mistborn animation please, I don’t trust any other media to adapt this story properly
Mistborn can be live action, I can see it being done well if Sanderson keeps a tight grip on the reigns. None of the effects would be all that difficult to show. Stormlight, on the other hand, 100% needs to be animation. Far too many scenes and effects that just would not translate well to a live action medium.
I dont trust anyone with a live action mistborn imo. Stuff like the mist, rain of ash and flying around the city it just needs to be animated. With live action they would try to save money everywhere, like the dragons in game of thrones.
I’m sure it’ll have the “not like the other girls” protagonist who is smoking hot and doesn’t know it, but will it also retain the cringey dialogue and cliché teenage love triangle of the book? Those are the most important elements of that literary slopfest. It could truly become the next Marvel franchise.
