brandon sanderson mistborn the final empire

The Lord of the Rings adaptations did a lot of straying from the books, and while most of that was in editing things out, I think this falls in the same realm-rather than being like the Shining, I Robot, or Starship Troopers, where the film is often inverted from the source material. And a part of me likes that I can go and treat this as something new, rather than just a clone of something I've already read some two dozen times. (Indeed, there are lots of places where I would prefer that he did.) But it does let me appreciate what he's doing, and how well it works.

That doesn't prevent me from, as a producer on this, warning Rafe of places where I think the fans will prefer he stay closer to the source material.

I tend to be someone who LIKES seeing film and television adaptations do new things. My perspective is, perhaps, skewed by my experiences. And the Wheel of Time I saw tonight was absolutely worthy to be called the Wheel of Time, even though a lot of the scenes were new. There is, of course, a continuum between these extremes. Everything was approaching the story from a cinematic viewpoint-and I found that in a lot of cases, this new treatment was stronger. But no actual scenes from the book except Vin/Elend on the balcony. That treatment for that screenplay was very different from the book, while at the same time still being the book-same soul, same characters, same basic plot beats. As an exercise, I did one more recently (for the screen) where I threw out every scene from the book and asked myself, 'If I were doing what was absolutely best for a film, but telling the same story, how would I have written this? I've actually written treatments of Mistborn that do both of these. One is to try to be very faithful to the actual text, and the other is to redo almost the entire thing for the new medium, while trying to keep the soul of it the same. I've come to the mindset that there are two general ways to approach adaptation. Produces: Brandon is a robot! Related Reddit Communitiesīelow is Brandon's comments about the wheel of time adaptation and his thoughts on his mistborn screenplay. To hide spoilers, please use the following: If you violate this policy, you must edit your post/comment in a timely manner or it will be removed. When commenting, stay within the spoiler levels implied for the post or hide the comment text as shown below. Do not include plot points in post titles. Please title your posts so that the expected level of spoilers inside are clear to everyone. Please be familiar with our rules, here, before interacting in our community. We also have several rules concerning spoilers, appropriate content, and more. Every interaction on the subreddit must be kind, respectful, and welcoming. This is a subreddit for all things related to sci-fi/fantasy author Brandon Sanderson! Please take a moment to review our rules! Rulesįirst and foremost, we ask that everyone show respect to others in this community.

Brandon sanderson mistborn the final empire