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.

 

[Parmandur]

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.


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.

+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.

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

Robert Jordan had a much stronger prose style than Sanderson, for sure. For me, even in the stretches where Jordan loses the plot, his prose styling and attention to detail carry it through. I swear you can write a 120 page thesis on how the Wheel of Time achieves world building through in-depth restaurant reviews of the 90-some named Inns that characters visit.

Though one thing I have noticed that Robert Jordan, George R. R. Martin, Terry Pratchett (the three major writers I have seen speak on person) share as does Sanderson: they write the same way that they speak. To a large extent, I think Sanderson's plain prose is partly just his Omaha, Nebraska speech patterns being, well...plain and straightforward. There is also an element of intentionality: the Stormlight Archives has such a complex plot, told over such a large spread, with such a weird Setting...he is on record of wanting the reading process to be straightforward and not an additional barrier to entry.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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.

Yeah, it’s a matter of pacing and rhythm as well as content. The BBC radio version picked that up better than the movies.

 

[Parmandur]

Yeah, it’s a matter of pacing and rhythm as well as content. The BBC radio version picked that up better than the movies.

Indeed! Frankly I would love it if someone did a long form TV version someday that has all the songs, Tom Bombadil, the Scouring and all the walking not simply montages away.

On the other hand, to tie the LOTR films back to the topic, Sanderson has apparently been re-reading the Lord of the Rings and watching the movies to see how he envisions the Stormlight Archives TV show, since a single season would be about the same screen time as the Extended Editions and each Stormlight book is more or less a single Metric Lord of the Rings Trilogy in length:

"There is a reason I've been studying Tolkien lately. Peter Jackson and his team did a brilliant job on that and if you look at the special editions, they are roughly about the length of a season of a show together covering about the same wordcount as a stormlight book... It feels like they knew exactly what to keep and cut."

And that approach may fit Stormlight better than it did Tolkien.