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I liked The Reckoners as well, though I feel the first book is the best of the trilogy. I felt the climax of Book 3 was on the weaker end, though. I could definitely see Steelheart translating well as a film.
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Hopefully it's done as a trilogy, and not a mashed-together mess like Percy Jackson. It might actually do well as a 3 season miniseries, each book a season.
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I think making it a miniseries would actually harm it. It uses thriller pacing, so it means stretching things out. That's why I feel a film would be better.
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I think something like Sherlock would do. It has three distinct parts, and the movie-length run-time of Sherlock times 3 episodes should work to get it all in without dropping anything or needing to add filler.
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Stuff like Sherlock wouldn't have the budget that something like Steelheart would need, though. ...Maybe. I imagine it as a story, if you wish to translate it right, requires a higher budget. But I likewise am no expert or anything on how much it costs to create films compared to mini-series and so on, so I wouldn't know.
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The Reckoners trilogy is one of the few Sanderson works that could be adapted as a pretty standard Hollywood movie (a trilogy in this case) without major cuts. Elantris could probably work too, and maybe Mistborn. The Wax and Wayne books would probably be easier than the original trilogy, since they have a smaller cast. Everything else is just so long and dense that there's no way they could do any of the individual books justice in a single movie.
Warbreaker could be a short mini-series in the same vein as Sherlock, three to four hours total. Stormlight would definitely need a Game of Thrones level full season series. Each book is essentially three books, so I'd say at absolute minimum you're looking at six hours each. Even that would require cutting a lot.
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With all of the use of abstract concepts and thoughts, and reading things, the books should stay as book. Reckoners and Wax and Wayne could make it as movies or tv shows. Not storm light or mist born. Too long with many opening book quotes at the start. Too much cognitive realm use.
Wax and Wayne would actually make for a good action shooting game. Or a Musou game where it's them against everyone.
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And The Stormlight Archive would make a kick-ass anime.
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Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
Came across this illustration
◊ of Vin and Ten-Soon and....damn Scadrial has some BIG dogs.
(Its apparently an illustration for the Leather Bound Mistborn books)
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I think it would've shown in the text if he was THAT big. I pictured him as an Irish Wolfhound, which are big, but not horse-sized.
Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.
He DID eat a horse once.
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He's a kandra, they treat normal notions of mass and volume as a suggestion.
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Actually, they're pretty compliant. It's density they screw with.
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Which is mass over volume!
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They're good about consuming things to increase mass and puking it out to decrease it. Same for volume. It's the part about them having stone skeletons that don't impact their disguise and weight that annoys me.
New story: Skyward.
A Girl and Her Sentient Starship fight to save the last of the human race from the aliens who have been trying to wipe them out.
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Interesting. I wonder what continuity it's in? Rithmatist?
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It's part of the Legion continuity.
Okay, a discussion from the Stormlight Archive thread that's semi-relevant to the Cosmere in general, and Mistborn in particular. Here are the highlights:
While Odium's forces are usually color coded as red and darklight purple, Odium himself usually presents himself with the colors white and gold (which is part of why I always imagine him as the KFC Colonel whatever description they give). White and gold is consistent for him. When he's appearing to Fused, he's a singer with white and gold swirls. His scepter is always described as white and gold. And when he was going all matrix room on Mr. T, his color scheme, with the SOLE exception of the ominous hilight of Renarin's name, was white and gold.
When Moash killed Jezrien, he did it with a white and gold dagger. I suspect it's made of rayseium.
Adding to this, if that IS rayseium, then it means the one whose gave Bleeder her spikes ISN'T Odium. The spike we saw was silvery. This implies there are TWO supervillain Shards in the Cosmere.
Perhaps Bavadin/Autonomy. This would imply a less bleak future for Roshar. Hoid disliked them too, and this is likely for good reason. Plus Word of Brandon says it’s a shard we know.
My money is on Autonomy all the way and has been for a while. Since Autonomy likes to impersonate Gods from different religions (or the religions make Gods after him/her) i thought he/she was active on Scadrial ever since Trell was mention in Era 2, since that Trell is so different from the one Sazed mentions in Era 1.
Autonomy Does Not Do The Research.
I think Autonomy was also Austre on Nalthis or at least appeared as her, since the distaste for awakening was (acording to Vasher) only "recently" (i don´t remember if he gives a time, but i think it was sometime after the Manywar)
I liked Reckoners, though it was not as good as most Cosmere books.