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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9850694" data-attributes="member: 18">I really doubt that that's the choice being made, though, do you think it is? I think it's much more likely they're giving a certain amount to Apple TV, which can be negotiated a little, but not vastly.I suspect it's more like $700m+ on several seasons of one huge, meaningless, loud TV show (well over a billion, maybe over two billion, if they make it all 14 years to 2040 when Sanderson believes the series will be complete*), which actually kind of showcases moral cowardice (in books 1-3 anyway) and listening to Jiminy Cricket even when Jiminy Cricket is basically someone who can excuse racism and slavery and regards monarchy which supports both as legitimate and in need of preservation (and not for mere practical reasons), vs. $700m on 10 to 30 potentially extremely good TV shows/seasons (some of which will inevitably suck, I admit, after all, Invasion exists and is Apple TV).I just don't know why one would make that assumption. The Stormlight novels exist in the form they do seemingly entirely because Sanderson will not let the gigatons of filler and nonsense they contain be edited down, and he has all of the leverage with his publisher, because they sell, even if I suspect the audience gets smaller every time (and probably will do until he gets close to the end).The fact that he's getting this "James Gunn"-style deal despite not even being a neophyte also suggests he has all the leverage with Apple TV. So my assumption would be that those issues may well not be addressed. Like, they might, but I'd be surprised. I'm not sure Sanderson fully processes that they are problems - he's quite self-aware and self-critical in many ways, but I've never seen him talk about 300+ page digressions full of waffle where nothing happens as one of his weaknesses (and to be fair, prior to Stormlight, it wasn't one of his weaknesses). Rather it's stuff like his profound inability to write romance, especially like, sexy romance that he recognises as his own flaws - stuff which could easily be fixed by other writers on the show. But if the showrunner decides 20-30 minutes of every hourlong for a season is going to be devoted to nothing-which-matters-happens waffling (not even lore-dumping! It's somehow less than that!), that isn't something other writers can salvage.* = This is where the same prankster god responsible for the rest of this timeline pulls one of his "funny jokes" and somehow GRRM is alive and finishes WoW and maybe even ADoS in the 2030s, but Sanderson drops dead and people start wondering if they can ask 85+ y/o GRRM to finish Stormlight!</blockquote>

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