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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8618171" data-attributes="member: 18">I think it's actually easier to make a movie out of a novelette or short story than 99% of fantasy novel series, which is why relatively few fantasy novel series have been made into movies (LotR being the main one, let's not talk about The Hobbit).But the issue is that now, it's all about "the IP", not just an individual movie or TV series. And whilst with lengthy fantasy novel series, you probably want to go with a TV series not a movie, that is more useful than S&S, generally. The closest we have to S&S on TV now is The Witcher (despite repeated threats of a Conan TV series), which is essentially S&S-adjacent at least, but had so much written that they were able to use it like a more conventional fantasy novel series. Marvel's continuing success with the MCU is only making this "IP-first" concept seem more appealing to the decision-makers behind movies and TV.I'll be pretty surprised if it doesn't end up making Brandon Sanderson a lot of money at some point. His books are absolute bait for this and interconnected via the Cosmere stuff. The only things holding him back are that, by his own admission, he is not good at writing romances (and indeed his earlier books are actively staid-seeming, and not in a good way!), which weakens some of his stories, and that most of his novels would need a fairly big FX budget (but every year that is less of an issue).</blockquote>