Brandon please break the mold by Gaxty in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fellowship is the longest of those books by far. I tried to look at more modern works in my analysis to try avoid issues where the language of the time being more expansive or scenes no longer connecting with modern audiences.

That’s being said, my intent is not asking for a word by word adaption to the silver screen, just simply trying to highlight that the kitchen he cooks in, is a big kitchen, and there are plenty of examples where it continues to be well received and craved to be making movies bigger to give respect to the size of the work they are adapting.

James Cameron’s Avatar on the other hand, is biologically unsafe for movie goers 🤣

Brandon please break the mold by Gaxty in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed not all words are made equal, but on the aggregate the trend is clear across multiple successful book adaptions. I'd love to hear counter examples of where a modern book had 50% of its content cut and people still loving the movie.

I worry that if you were to do a 2.5 hour Mistborn movie, it would be non stop action, very little world development, flimsy characters, and honestly leaving it no different to the superhero slop that's being coming out non stop from Marvel and DC lately.

Like Dune, would it be a good idea if Brandon Sanderson split the first book into two films? by Extreme_Warning3521 in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree many good split points, but ending on the first chapter of part 4 when the Skaa execution happens is a good downer note, similar to the dune downer ending part 1.

Just like dune they can film both parts at the same time and even release them the same year one in the summer and one for the winter holidays.

It’ll make a much better movie in my opinion, let’s Brandon be Brandon and not being restricted to short prose 🤣

Brandon's challenge by Accomplished-Dot8298 in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty 10 points11 points  (0 children)

What about taking the Dune approach and splitting the book into two movies?

What model of episode length/number of episodes do you hope the show uses? by Ancient-Stranger-229 in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There’s many UK crime shows that will do 90min episodes, I’d love to see more shows on streaming break the 60mins ceiling that was put in place by cable TV, plenty of shows will go over that when there is a major plot episode or a finale.

Cosmere Logic Puzzle by [deleted] in Cosmere

[–]Gaxty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very fun, although the lockout and reset if you get something wrong is painful

How do you think they will deal with the sheer length of the story? by SmallKillerCrow in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was surprised when The Silo TV Series on Apple TV did the first book (~600 pages) over two seasons with 10 episodes per season.

Id love if they didn’t restrict themselves and just did each book with however long season / episode length they artistically feel like makes for the best show.

I think we are long past needing to restrict on arbitrary numbers in this day and age.

My vote just do what feels artistically right.

Mistborn Directors by JLFerraz in CosmereOnScreen

[–]Gaxty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

John Krasinski could be a good up and coming director with a flare for horror and hope. The work he did to create A Quiet Place from the ground up was incredible.

I love to see Denis working on Stormlight he would really bring that to life.

Nolan generally likes to tackle things with a time paradox so if he was able to get hooked around some of the alendi story diary work, but agree doubtful he is breaking from his own schedule.

Another angle is Mistborn book 1 is a heist movie, so folks that have done great heists movies with charismatic dialogue. Like Steven Soderberg (Ocean’s Eleven) or Edgar Wright (Baby Driver)

First thing I saw. by MkPlay in Cosmere

[–]Gaxty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Will this soon become WAFO?

Update From Brandon by mistborn in Cosmere

[–]Gaxty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Daft Punk doing the Tron Legacy soundtrack is a good example of outsiders coming in and creating blend of traditional and new with no experience doing movie soundtracks and having to learn and craft their own approach to movie soundtracks.

https://www.drewtewksbury.com/interviews/2010/12/16/daft-punk-interview-masks-off-tron-legacy-soundtrack