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He said that he has full creative control, more than Rowling or GRRM got over their adaptations. As someone who knows this industry, I'm WILDLY skeptical of this. On paper I'm sure it's fine, in action it's going to look different.
Anyways, I have a few comments.
1. Mistborn as movies is fine. He is allegedly writing the screenplay...which....I'm wary of...in his WOT show roundup videos that he did while that show aired, his instincts for what he felt was wrong were that of a prose writer, not a screenwriter used to that medium...every time. So I don't see him nailing any script unless he's got help AND he's willing to compromise on his prose-author vision VS what will work for a movie. Time will tell.
2. SLA is not adaptable as a live action show. It's not only filled with WAY too much stuff that requires SFX, magic, creatures, Mo-Cap characters, and such...but it takes place on a world that does not exist as ours does and does not operate as ours does, so even the basic backdrop of settings and scenes would need to be "created". The cost of something like that would be IMMENSE. We are talking probably more than Amazon spends on RoP, just to achieve a viable look...and then that cost needs to be upped as the story goes on and things get more intense, and more weird and contain more mo-cap characters and magic and settings...the only way I see SLA being even remotely adaptable is VIA animation. And I've heard whispers that Sanderson had been talking to the crew who made ARCANE (which he truly liked), so that may be the avenue they are looking to take here...but yeah, an SLA live action show feels like a pipe dream, even in Apple's deep pockets.
3. I feel like the best adaptations are often the ones that take some liberties, and keep other things sacrosanct. They find the middle ground that makes the most sense for a TV/movie viewer and move on that. People often hold up LOTR as "adaptation done right"....but lots of Tolkien purists are annoyed by things they left out (Bombadil), or things they changed (Faramir)...but PJ and his wife and fellow writer I think found the best path through it to find the meat of LOTR while changing medium from a books from the 1950's to a movie in the 21st century. The same needs to be true here, but to accomplish that Sanderson is going to need to loosen his grip on the reigns and let Cosmere adapted media be its own thing. I dunno that he has that in him.
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