Cosmere picked up by Apple TV

[Parmandur]

Ya, I think I've been looking at that thick book for five years now.....and haven't opened it yet.

I recommend trying to get to the end of Part 1 (of 5): by then you will be invested or uninterested.

 

[Retros_x]

Great news, I think apple is the best pick! I think Sandersons work is perfect for TV adaption because his strengths can shine (plotting, action, character interactions) while his weaknesses are mainly of literate nature IMO (I really dislike his prose, especially the internal monologues of his characters). I also hope that we see more of the world in SA than in the first book. I really disliked that we see so little of the world in Way of Kings. Felt not epic at all.

I'm actually more excited for a Mistborn movie than for the Stormlight TV show.

Same here. While reading Mistborn I already had movie scenes in my mind - the action scenes are just too good. Mistborn fights with good fx and good action direction gould become so amazing.

Try reading The Emperor's Soul: very short novella, self-contained and standalone award winning story.

+1! The only Sanderson work I gave over 4,0 on storygraph. One of my main criticsm of him is his bloated writing, but when he forces himself to be concise like in his novel his true strength emerge IMO.

I recommend trying to get to the end of Part 1 (of 5): by then you will be invested or uninterested.

Hm, not sure. I read The Way of Kings last year and I am neither invested nor completely uninterested. I definitely want to continue at one point, but Wheel of Time comes first, much more invested in that series by now

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I'm very interested in how these turn out. Adaptations have a nasty habit of being bad/disappointing, but with Sanderson having this much influence I am less worried than I normally would be.

In some ways, I'm interested to see how the adaptations could improve on the source material. Through their very nature, TV/movie adaptations of novels have to cut out a lot of stuff and make the story tighter. I love Sanderson's stories, but the last few of his I read felt like they desperately needed to be shorter. I hope that the trimming that the adaptations will bring will make the stories more concise. With all affection, Sanderson is pretty much the definition of "should have taken more time to write a shorter book."

 

[Cergorach]

Through their very nature, TV/movie adaptations of novels have to cut out a lot of stuff and make the story tighter.

Did the (extended) LotR trilogy?

I'm not looking for 'improvements' in TV/movie adaptions, I'm looking for a different medium for the story to be told in. And with books to TV/Movie that change is generally in the audio/visual realm.

 

[Parmandur]

Did the (extended) LotR trilogy?

I'm not looking for 'improvements' in TV/movie adaptions, I'm looking for a different medium for the story to be told in. And with books to TV/Movie that change is generally in the audio/visual realm.

Yes, even the extended movies cut a huge amount of important material and took shortcuts.

The Lord of the Rings would be better off as a six season TV show, to properly draw out everything.