As I understand it, Brandon Sanderson has had several conversations with "Hollywood" about adapting his Cosmere and the Stormlight Archives, however; Brandon is not willing to give up creative control. And when that happens, Hollywood tries to buy creative control by offering more money. Which Brandon has stated, "I don't need Hollywood's money, so Hollywood doesn't know how to deal with me." So, what we really need is a production company willing to allow Brandon Sanderson to maintain creative control and produce the movies that Brandon wants to see produced. But, as you stated, the cowards won't do it.
I'm not sure how feasible this would really be but maybe Brandon could even run a Kickstarter for the first season or first movie of a Mistborn adaption and expand Dragonsteel to have it's own animation or movie department to produce the adaptions in-house.
@@amysteriousviewer3772I would love for this to happen. Personally, I’d want to see a Cosmere movie several times just to support Brandon and The Cosmere.
I'm so glad he is standing his ground. Just think how easily Hollywood would ruin Vins arc by making her a Mary Sue. Or how insufferable they would make Shallan/Jasnah. Brandon is extremely good at writing women who are the smartest in the room, but Hollywood just can't seem to grasp the notion without it being one girl boss moment after another. My worst fear is that these stories get adapted and become the laughing stock of the Internet because of hacks thinking they need to change the characters to appeal to an audience that just doesn't exist.
It's not about being cowards. You are effectively giving ultimate power to someone who has zero experience in television. On top of that, they have zero experience in production and budgets. If Sanderson could do it without Hollywood then he would do it. The problem is translating the text into something that is profitable and budtget friendly is not that easy
The way Martin crafted his world made GOT the type of fantasy that can apeal to a large audience. Martin is a history nerd so he borrow many history facts to his world and that make Westeros more realistic than others fantasys. When watching GOT most people feel like they are watching Vikings or any other medieval like history rather than some alien fantasy world. I think that played huge role in the massive sucess of the show.
Yeah and what martin understood a lot better than most fantasy writers is the fact of the frequent irrationality of people. People frequently act with poor judgement in books just like in life. Politics is never "neat" enought to entirely fall in line with a grand narrative.
Sanderson said he is doing Mistborn first and then when he gets more confident on how things work he will adapt Stormlight. Mistborn is being worked on now.
I was thinking the same thing, the first book would make a really good movie or short series. Not sold on book 2 though, I’m still working through it and I feel like nothing has happened.
@@evilemuempire9550 its been a while since i read it but i think the second one has some pretty crazy reveals towards the end that were mind blowing for me.
First law is amazing and it is written like a script almost, you can visualise a lot of what's happening clearly. There are many grey characters that any fan of ASOIAF would love, the fight scenes are amazing and mystery is incredible alongside worldbuilding and it is very unpredictable. Literally cannot imagine any other fantasy that should get tv show before this one.
I really love the First Law series but I’m worried modern TV audiences wouldn’t appreciate it. It’s deeply, comically cynical and several of the books have endings that are intentionally anticlimactic. I can see people going “What? That’s it? What a waste of time!” And just totally failing to see the beauty in it. I think that’s why they’re starting with Best Served Cold, as it has possibly the most straightforward plot of any First Law book. I really hope I’m wrong, because I would love to see the whole series adapted 🤞
I fear you misunderstood Tolkien’s intentions with LOTR. Tolkien did not plan on making the Lord of the Rings, but he did have his pastime of building out his personal mythology (what would become the first, second age and bit of the third age of middle earth. As he put it, the story of the hobbit just so happened to slowly sneak into his private world and its successor would be fully based it in. Tolkien’s Legendarium wasn’t made to serve the Lord of the Rings, it was made to serve as a place for his languages and myths
I doubt there will ever truly be a series that is the "next Game of Thrones" because the TV landscape (and media as a whole) has changed a lot since it first aired. Game of Thrones began airing in a time before on-demand streaming became oversaturated and where the term "prestige television" still meant something. There will certainly still be big shows with great production value that draw a lot of viewers but I doubt any single show will have the same kind of cultural impact ever again.
Dresden Files! Yes, it had a horrible adaption years ago, but most folks have forgotten. 17 very popular books and counting. Not as expensive because it’s urban fantasy taking place NOW with contemporary sets and costumes. It has epic stories (the Winter Elves fighting a millennia long battle to prevent the END), intimate and heartfelt relationships, questions of what do you do with power. Got it all.😁
The future of fantasy is growing with the acceptance of animation and live action as equals but different mediums. Shows like Arcane (League of Legends), Vox Machina (Critical Role), and even looking back at the clone wars (Star Wars), are good examples of stories that CAN be done! We just have to be willing to accept animation for the differences it can provide in fantasy.
4:28 Idk, the War of Wrath was peak middle-earth lore for me, it literally sunk a big part of the whole continent. I think originally Tolkien wanted the Silmarillion to release alongside the tLotR books but the book-publishers denied him this request which is probably one reason for why today many people know more about the actual LotR story and way less about the vast "Silmarillion" book lore, next to it being also harder to read/ comprehend (at least initially) than LotR imo.
Malazan could be the dark gritty thing. Cosmere can be hopeful and inter connected huge thing like mcu used to be. Sun eater could be the next big sci fi thing. Honestly if they adapt stuff faithfully everything would be wonderful and profitable
Kingkiller is so good but you're right that adapting it correctly would be... very difficult. Not fantasy, but Red Rising could easily be a banger if they do it right. Stormlight Archives is amazing, but I doubt they really start work on a full adaptation until the books are almost done. GOT suffered badly by running out of source material. Mistborn by Sanderson would be sick to see televised, definitely worth the read if you haven't done it. A very tidy and clean trilogy with an engaging world and awesome action scenes, perfect for a series or movie trilogy.
The best parts of KKC I found was the prose and stories, not so much the plot and characters. I think at BEST it would be extremely difficult to adapt, but realistically impossible. The only strength I found it has that lends itself to TV is world building.
The most hyped adaptation that im expecting are indeed fantasy the mistborn future movies. And I'm hoping that Bradley Cooper finally makes Hyperion movie is the perfect rival for Dune have a huge potential.
That's been development hell forever. They should have given it over to the folks who produced Black Mirror. Hyperion works as an anthology and they've excelled at anthology storytelling.
The next show that will get the level of attention that Game of Thrones got is going to be HBO's Harry Potter series. Yes, the movies will always be a huge part of our childhoods and for many our introduction into fantasy, and yes, a reboot is "unnecessary", but if it's going to happen you can bet your chocolate frogs that all of us millennials who grew up watching the movies and reading the books are going to watch the crap out of a Harry Potter show that will include a lot of what the movies left out (and the movies increasingly left out more and more as the series progressed). The issue I see with a lot of these fantasy shows coming out is that the people creating the shows cannot do it without inserting/immersing their own personal/political ideologies into the show. Peter Jackson made it a point to adapt Tolkien as respectfully and truthfully as he could and the results speak for themselves. Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, Witcher all suffered from this. And sometimes I begin to wonder if the best people/most talented writers are getting the jobs because all of these shows suffered tremendously from horrible writing. I have some hope for Harry Potter as I think the the same person who adapted His Dark Materials show on HBO is doing it, and I think she did a great job with His Dark Materials which was always going to be a difficult show to adapt as the books are quite complex. I would love to see Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series get adapted. It was so cool. I think it is a fun mix of Avatar: Last Airbender and Ancient Rome and a variety of Mythology...It has six books, which is a great length for a tv series, and the series is actually completed! They tried to adapt Buther's Dresden Files a long time ago and it was horrible so I wont hold my breath lol.
I like fantasy, but i'm tired of nihilistic "everyone is just a different degree of evil" messaging like GoT and i'll never watch girlboss perversions like rings of power and gave up on the netflix witcher adaption where the witcher is a side character in his own show. I think something inspiring like the peter jackson lord of the rings movies might work well. I don't think i'm the only one who is tired of the MCU "everything must be turned into a silly joke" formula.
The nihilistic, GoT-esque style always reminds me of that boat social experiment scene from the Dark Knight. That was a scene that required people to simply choose good when they had every fear stacked up against them not to. Batman could do nothing, and Joker was confident that people were deeply flawed enough to fail. And yet, people chose good all on their own. The Joker was wrong, and he was alone in his evil. Modern, cynical writing can never create a scene like that because they can't possibly conceive the idea that people wouldn't resort to selfishness. Heroes aren't just heroes, and normal people aren't simply honest, decent humans to them. In the modern style, those boats would blow up, and the villain (who, let's face it, are these cynical writers) will never be slammed in the face with the cathartic "you are alone in your evil" and have that be portrayed as a good thing
@@rygord101 it's not just "good vs evil". It's freedom vs tyranny, loyalty vs obedience, courage vs compulsion. People enjoyed stuff like that since the dawn of time. Good enough for me.
@@martinkunz7155 So just good vs evil stories? That shit gets formulaic real quick, why did you think classic hero epics of the ancient era turned into complex stories of different goods and different evils in the dawn of the pre-common era. From worshipping epic heroes to worshipping gods who are mostly terrible and complicated people. People have also been getting sick of stories like since the dawn of time cause people turn those kind of stories boring and unrelatable. It’s never a problem with the genre, people are just shit at writing stories sometimes.
You mentioned Hollywood making movies as a reflection of the times we live in. That time we live in is adapted for TV from an AMERICAN point of view. That is the problem here. Nothing wrong with American/Hollywood storytelling, but it simply doesn't fit most classical fantasy stories. LOTR, for example, is written in a completely different time by a British author who fought in World War 1. Rings of Power, by all means, is an American piece of medium. It doesn't fit Tolkien. Part of why the LOTR trilogy worked, in my opinion, was because they weren't too much tied to Hollywood and were given (mostly) free reign. The Witcher is a Polish work of fiction; the adaptation by Netflix is the most pulpy and American thing I've seen in a while. It simply doesn't work. The themes and world-building of the books were nowhere to be seen in the adaptation. Even the costumes didn't look medieval/renaissance, which the Witcher world simply is. I like your idea of adapting more recent fantasy book series, like Stormlight Archive. Those series would be safer to adapt in this day and age. But if you think about it, it's just plain said Hollywood can't adapt classic fantasy right.
Martin is American and he made a brilliant piece of fantasy. Hollywood is in a quality dump phase for sure right now, but Americans have proven they can write proper fantasy.
@@hunterhorsehelmsley7315 I'm not saying Americans can't write fantasy. Americans can write great fantasy. It's just that many recent adaptations are European by origin and made by Americans. My point makes sense. It doesn't work most of the time.
I’ve been reading rangers apprentice for the first time, and even though it would be really hard to adapt on screen, and probably wouldn’t get as big as other fantasy series’s, part of me still wants it to happen
The only story i can seriously think of making it to the level of GOT if done correctly is BERSERK It literally has everything one of the greatest story, one of the greatest villain, different cultures and people of colour, and many more i can go on all day.
Oh wow, if it didn’t have people of color idk what I’d do, you certainly couldn’t adapt it or make skin color a natural aspect of the world in any other way (no I’m not referring to slavery)
Hello. Six Studios has acquired rights to the first six books in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ international fantasy book series The Riftwar Cycle for television.
The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins would make a good show I think, but I understand the reservations around adapting YA IP. I recently reread the books as an adult and the world is rich with lore.
This doesn't mean much but i am working on a fantasy series that circle around the intrigue of court politics and a medieval warlike world that also touches on the day to day life of the lowborn in that world. Been working on book 1 for nearly 3 years now and getting close to being done!
3:56 - "The most interesting moment in time in the history of the whole fictional world..." - Except for the forging of the Silmarils; the destruction of Laurelin and Telperion; Feanor's oath and curse and his hunt for Morgoth; the events leading up to the doom of Beleriand; the tale of Beren and Luthien (which Tolkien himself has called the most important story in Middle Earth, by the way); Nirnaeth Aenodiad; Tùrin's story; Tuor's story; Earendil's story; Akallabêth and the fall of Numenor; the founding of Gondor and Arnor; the first Ring War... honestly, the Lord of the Rings is almost more like an aftermath. This entire video is testimony of you not having read the Silmarillion. The stories in it are *much* larger and more epic in scale than the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien just didn't work them out into full novels for rather complicated biographic reasons. The point I would make here is actually a different one: It's that I'm pretty sure no one but Tolkien could do them justice. That's the problem with your metaphor of world-building as potential energy. No, not all the potential energy in Tolkien's world-building went into The Lord of the Rings, not by a long shot. But also, that doesn't mean this potential energy is just lying around waiting to be used. It's tied to the person of Tolkien, his specific talents, knowledge, personality and outlook on the world. Tolkien in particular did not build his world as a sandbox, and he had a strong distaste for people who would use it like that. Other fantasy writers may be different in that regard. I know I am. But also, few of them are as good as Tolkien.
This video is great other than the fact that you know nothing of middle earth. The lore of the the lord of the rings trilogy is so tiny compared to everything tolkien made. There are over 20 books dedicated to telling his lore and you say its enough for "a few short stories" lmao, if only you knew.
If you haven't already, check out the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. I've always thought that would be a fun one to adapt! Otherwise it's gotta be mistborn or stormlight, but as someone else mentioned, Brando Sando wants to make sure it's done right, so it might be a while before we see it.
I think fantasy on screen lost its way long ago already for the same reason Tolkien didnt like Dune. Someone shiuld really take a huge step back and ask what kind of deep collective unconsious well of vision we should drink from. Tolkien had a moral and ethic that was lost and forgotten and had significant value. What lord of the rings really teach its reader is so much more empowering and beautiful then what lessions can be made from Game of Thrones...
I think one of the biggest issues is that a lot of major productions these days are starting to look and feel the same. They don't have their own flaire and visual language anymore. It all has this bland, hyper-sterile look. It doesn't feel real and grounded like Lord of the Rings or the original Star Wars movies did. I honestly doubt someone could tell a frame from The Witcher, Rings of Power or Wheel of Time apart purely based on visuals.
GoT does gives you that "everything is dark, empty and things like honour and a sense of duty are meaningless", but ASOIAF is far more complex like that. I could write so much about it, but I will give you a brief example. Ned Stark and his son were ruthlessly executed by amoral people. Despite this, their teachings, honour, sense of duty and kindness is still remembered throughout the North, which is why the Northern houses *hate* the Bolton and Frey (well, besides the fact their kinsmen were also murdered in the Red Wedding, of course) and are planning to rebel, as implied by Lord Manderly.
@@TheDasilva1 It is easy to draw conclusions about why though, among the basic principles that guide Tolkien's writing is the alignment of personal morality and the greater good.
Unfortunately, they’re just going to keep pushing their weird racial politics, making every medieval village look like a modern airport lounge and people aren’t going to enjoy that, it breaks immersion.
Also stormlight works perfectly for an "expanded" universe. Since there like 15 more massive books set in the same setting across multiple planets. Sanderson should probably just make his own film studio, knowing how his Kickstarters usually go he could afford it.
I think Stormlight could be adapted well into something like a cinematic universe since it is not overly concerned with being literary fiction. KKC in contrast I think would only work as a prestige tv series and even that is a stretch. Rothfuss relies on his prose to do a lot of heavy lifting which won't be easy to adapt.
I think The First Law could make a great show but Im worried they will try and whitewash the characters since preatty much everyone in the book is kind of evil. Also PLEASE let Gloria have internal monologues. I know its very rare in US series but his character will work so much better with them
You can technically count Dune as sort of a fantasy. I mean it's "sci fi", but it has many fantasy elements too. The two Dune films have immensely been successful!
@@asura7915 yeah they could go for it, but i imagine people who watched the adaption of the first book would be quite surprised that the huge galactic war that starts at the end of the book is already over and is barely even mentioned. Felt like a scam when i first read the books.
Not immensely successful neither have even made a Billion. I like the movies but they don't have the appeal that Star Wars has or I should say had. Star wars has really fallen off since Disney took over.
J.V. Jones and the Sword of Shadows would make for a great "next Game of Thrones". Sadly, including the element that the author probably will never finish the book series... (started as a trilogy, previous book was published in 2010 and the upcoming "final" book might not even be the last one).
Wizard and Glass is so good. My favorite King book. So sad Amazon scrapped it. I watched the movie EXACLIBUR last night and thought the story of Arthur would make a great epic film or tv series. It’s been done before, but not for our generation and not with the budget and sincerity the material deserves
Words of Radiance is even better than Way of Kings. But yeah. However, I do wonder if they shouldn't start with Mistborn because it will be decades before Stormlight finishes, with Era 2 Stormlight using the same central characters as Era 1. That may be true of 1 or 2 Mistborn characters, as well, but not to the same degree. And it would be far more forgiving to use different actors even for these exceptions.
Sanderson is starting with Mistborn he is working on trying to get things rolling. Sanderson wants to do Mistborn first before he tackles Stormlight as an adaptation.
The Witcher had the potential to become THE new big thing however Netflix fucked it. The problem are those studios and Stream services who hire "Certain" newcomers without any Story writing experience as screenwriters and give them full creative freedom. I think we need studios and executives who are ready to take risks and hire people who actually respect the source material, there are dozens of great Books and Comics/Graphic novels just waiting to be adapted the way they are. Like American Vampire, or a proper high budget version of Journey to the West and blood meridian.
The Chrestomanci series would be interesting to me if adapted for a tv series. And the Howl's Moving Castle series (the Ghibli adaptation is too loose).
They need to stop converting fantasy books into action movies/shows. If they did stormlight, it would be 80% fight scenes and none of the political/personal drama.
Rather than "another GOT", I hope for series of Elric of Melnibone, the Chronicles of Amber, the Book of the New Sun, not big shows from big books, but cozy shows from favorite book series.
I disagree with you about The Wheel of Time --- I'm a huge fan of the books, I've read the whole series three times (and that's one long series), and I thought the first season was good enough and that the second season was excellent. I even quite like several of the changes they made in the adaptation (Perrin's early arc being one of the best). Season three is adapting what is widely considered to be the best book of the entire series (Book 4) and, with all of the Forsaken now on the field (and with them already having nailed the casting for Lanfear, Ishamael and Moghedien), I have high expectations and will be surprised if they aren't met. ( *Edit:* Great video, by the way, and I completely agree that Stormlight Archive would be a hit -- albeit one hell of an expensive one, especially in later books with all the gravity-wielders flying about in aerial combat. You deserve more subscribers!)
10:47 you give such ppl too much credit I'm afraid. As for Fantasy TV shows, I think a video game adaptation might work. Like Elder Scrolls or Dragon Agr Origins. There can be the political intrigue with the adventure story.
All the people with the money to make faithful adaptations have completely fucked over the creators without exception. George lucas, GRRM, JK Rowling, even Tolkien whos not alive to contest. Not one the companies holding these franchises are proving to be A) good custodians of the source material and B) respectful of the original creators or fandom. If they were im sure a brandon sanderson would be willing to dip his toe into that world. I'd go as far as to say brandon sanderson is the perfect fantasy author for live action adaptation. He has interesting magic systems. Many books to adapt. Hes young and still very prolific. Literally a cash cow from an executive perspective...which is undoubtedly why theyd fuck it up
Joe Abercrombie’s meant to be getting a adaption of his First Law books at last… only it’s “Best Served Cold” that’s getting it first. Why? Why would they not start at the beginning with the Blade itself. So silly
to be fair I think its a good idea, because best served cold is probably the best sel contained story from The first law books and its easier to lure audience with that. The blade itself even tho i love it is mostly just characters walking talking and thinking, not a lot fo action there. And you may love it or hate it, the normies would turn off tv after the first episode.
I don’t disagree with this video generally but calling The Silmarillion and the rest of Tolkien’s work “dry crumbs” is fucking WILD lmfao. Unless I’m just misinterpreting. They’re definitely not material for TV adaptations, but dry is absurd.
Until we get rid of inclusivity and the current trend of Hollywood pushing everything it can into fantasy worlds and making New York out of it, we will never get good fantasy. Fantasy is supposed to be a break from reality, not its duplication. Fantasy is supposed to give us new adventures and experiences, and I don't have to be represented in them in any way to have fun with it. I'm disappointed with what they did with Rings of Power and The Witcher. Game of Thrones was great as long as it used books.
This one might ruffle some feathers, but A Court of Thorns and Roses. Considering how popular the romantasy subgenre has gotten, I think an ACOTAR adaptation could work really well.
Dark Tower is so fucking ass, cant understand when anyone says its "the best". Gunslinger was one of the worst books ive read in my entire life. Boring, vulgar, and strange.
@@arthurhaag9434 well one scene in particular details a fathers hand and how it’s enveloped by his daughters breast. Vulgar and strange, added nothing to the plot, Stephen King is a weirdo pervert.
Dungeons and Dragons settings looks fresh for the taking. There was the movie last year that did recently well. Wound not mind seeing a show based on the Icewind dale trilody and the prequels. Though the books are relatively short, so it will probably succumb to writters/directors trying to extend each book to the typical 8x 40-50 min series. As a super darkhorse, maybe Magic the Gathering. It has the player base, maybe with some decent execution it can be made to work?
they already started a mistborn production, which was cancelled/laid on ice for now. stormlight would be really expensive the create the spren in cgi so they look good. but hollywood knows that mistborn+stormlight are THE stories to put on the big screen. The problem is that sanderson wrote the last Wheel of time books after jordan passed away. He sees what hollywood did to the series that got him into fantasy. He is not willing to give up controle over the adaptation to hollywood completely, at least not in the first seasons. And hollywood can't handle an author who does not need the money.
Stormlight Archives won't be the next Game of Thrones. It doesn't have enough sex in it. On a different note, I think there's still material to mine in Tolkien. Specifically, TV could potentially do real justice to the Baren and Luthien story and the darkest days of the war against Sauron's boss. But, honestly, I don't think there is a "next GoT". Just like there hasn't been and won't be a "next Star Wars". We have whole generations brought up to drug away or avoid any difficult emotions, and the very nature of "epic" is that it takes buy-in to difficult emotions. You have to feel the depths of apathy when Frodo succumbs to The Ring for the series to have "epic" impact. You have to feel something akin to terror when Vader shows up in "the hallway scene", and real anger and betrayal when they run into him in Cloud City. And true shock and horror about "I am your father". It's not epic without those strong, negative feelings. There are no heights of glory if comparable abysses of negativity don't await a misstep. And you can't feel those things if you're floating in a concoction of drugs meant to prevent anxiety, fear, anger, apathy. So, I don't think there is a new epic waiting in the wings. I really don't.
Before anything else comes out we need a paradigm shift in the medium and industry. I have completely lost all faith in Hollywood and believe they are irredeemable
You clearly have not seen the shift. The matlock, the substance, brothers, twisters (a bit lazy, but i love twister), longlegs, alien Romulus, the fall guy, boy kills World, Apartment 7a they are finale getting good again. It was a still bebouse of the strike and now it is getting better.
Kingkiller Chronicles could be the next Game of Thrones, in the sense that the adaptation will eventually catch up to the source material, they will butcher the ending and the author will never finish the saga.
Just hear me out, right now I’m writing a new medieval fantasy tv show that will be the next game of thrones, just give a couple years. Trust me, when you see it you’ll remember this comment
The problem with Way of Kings is the setting. They would have to recreate the rocky landscape… and not just that, but also take people there to film the complex and interactive battle scenes. Let alone the costumes, the creatures… like the spren, the skyeels, all the crustaceans, the monsters (it will be very difficult to get it right on film without breaking the bank). It’s something that can only be possible with a huge budget at the film level and not a show… unless it’s something like HBO doing it, but with Sanderson as head of production and direction that is very technical and great art director as well. Then a group of great but low budget actors that will stick to it. It’s not something that a group looking for a quick cash grab group could do it service. I don’t see it happening ever lol.
I’m actually so excited for the Dunk and Egg show. It should be unique in that it shouldn’t fall into the GOT world pitfalls. Since they’re all self-contained, finished novellas, the writers will have the whole story to tell and won’t need to extrapolate (see GOT seasons 6-8) And since there are no dragons in that time period in Westerosi history (spoiler, sorry) the show should not fall into the same budgeting constrictions. The show should be a little more nuanced, focused more on intimidate character interactions, rather than spectacle; which won’t be for everybody sure. But I’m beyond here for it
What about The Dune franchise and Mortal Kombat series, theres also wings of fire and has everyone forgot the works of c.s.lewis aka THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA OR HOW ABOUT THE SPACE TRILOGY? There's also the Dragonriders of Pern, Dinotopia, the Earthsea chronicles.
As I understand it, Brandon Sanderson has had several conversations with "Hollywood" about adapting his Cosmere and the Stormlight Archives, however; Brandon is not willing to give up creative control. And when that happens, Hollywood tries to buy creative control by offering more money. Which Brandon has stated, "I don't need Hollywood's money, so Hollywood doesn't know how to deal with me." So, what we really need is a production company willing to allow Brandon Sanderson to maintain creative control and produce the movies that Brandon wants to see produced. But, as you stated, the cowards won't do it.
I'm not sure how feasible this would really be but maybe Brandon could even run a Kickstarter for the first season or first movie of a Mistborn adaption and expand Dragonsteel to have it's own animation or movie department to produce the adaptions in-house.
@@amysteriousviewer3772I would love for this to happen. Personally, I’d want to see a Cosmere movie several times just to support Brandon and The Cosmere.
I'm so glad he is standing his ground. Just think how easily Hollywood would ruin Vins arc by making her a Mary Sue. Or how insufferable they would make Shallan/Jasnah.
Brandon is extremely good at writing women who are the smartest in the room, but Hollywood just can't seem to grasp the notion without it being one girl boss moment after another.
My worst fear is that these stories get adapted and become the laughing stock of the Internet because of hacks thinking they need to change the characters to appeal to an audience that just doesn't exist.
It's not about being cowards. You are effectively giving ultimate power to someone who has zero experience in television. On top of that, they have zero experience in production and budgets. If Sanderson could do it without Hollywood then he would do it. The problem is translating the text into something that is profitable and budtget friendly is not that easy
Brandon could go to Japanese tv companies and serialized his literary works as a gritty anime
The way Martin crafted his world made GOT the type of fantasy that can apeal to a large audience. Martin is a history nerd so he borrow many history facts to his world and that make Westeros more realistic than others fantasys. When watching GOT most people feel like they are watching Vikings or any other medieval like history rather than some alien fantasy world. I think that played huge role in the massive sucess of the show.
Yeah and what martin understood a lot better than most fantasy writers is the fact of the frequent irrationality of people. People frequently act with poor judgement in books just like in life. Politics is never "neat" enought to entirely fall in line with a grand narrative.
Just pray that if there ever is an adaptation of The Stormlight Archive, Amazon doesn’t touch it!
Specially DISNEY
… or Netflix cause they’d cancel it.
Sanderson said he is doing Mistborn first and then when he gets more confident on how things work he will adapt Stormlight. Mistborn is being worked on now.
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Really, are you serious?
i would kill for a good mistborn adaptation.
I was thinking the same thing, the first book would make a really good movie or short series. Not sold on book 2 though, I’m still working through it and I feel like nothing has happened.
Hope it is animated and not live action...live action is such a make it or break it and nothing in between, whilst anime can fall back unto something.
@@evilemuempire9550 its been a while since i read it but i think the second one has some pretty crazy reveals towards the end that were mind blowing for me.
@@aurelian2668 Sanderson is working on the Mistborn adaptation, I'm pretty sure it's going to be live action.
@@evilemuempire9550 keep reading...
First law is amazing and it is written like a script almost, you can visualise a lot of what's happening clearly. There are many grey characters that any fan of ASOIAF would love, the fight scenes are amazing and mystery is incredible alongside worldbuilding and it is very unpredictable. Literally cannot imagine any other fantasy that should get tv show before this one.
I have heard that, "Best Served Cold" will be getting an adaptation soon.
@@mattd.9810my favorite of his, wish they made it into a 7-episodes mini-series, but a movie is fine I guess, Rebecca as lead is a great choice.
I really love the First Law series but I’m worried modern TV audiences wouldn’t appreciate it. It’s deeply, comically cynical and several of the books have endings that are intentionally anticlimactic. I can see people going “What? That’s it? What a waste of time!” And just totally failing to see the beauty in it. I think that’s why they’re starting with Best Served Cold, as it has possibly the most straightforward plot of any First Law book. I really hope I’m wrong, because I would love to see the whole series adapted 🤞
Whichever series gets adapted, it would probably be more beneficial to adapt it in animation each with its own distinct artstyle.
Real I was trying so hard to thing of a series that could work in live action more than animation but I couldn’t it’s 99% better in animation
Mistborn is being adapted and Sanderson is involved
I fear you misunderstood Tolkien’s intentions with LOTR. Tolkien did not plan on making the Lord of the Rings, but he did have his pastime of building out his personal mythology (what would become the first, second age and bit of the third age of middle earth. As he put it, the story of the hobbit just so happened to slowly sneak into his private world and its successor would be fully based it in. Tolkien’s Legendarium wasn’t made to serve the Lord of the Rings, it was made to serve as a place for his languages and myths
those final words had me hit the like button
I doubt there will ever truly be a series that is the "next Game of Thrones" because the TV landscape (and media as a whole) has changed a lot since it first aired. Game of Thrones began airing in a time before on-demand streaming became oversaturated and where the term "prestige television" still meant something. There will certainly still be big shows with great production value that draw a lot of viewers but I doubt any single show will have the same kind of cultural impact ever again.
I still don't understand how the Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist hasn't been adapted
ANIMATION!!!! Those extra animated exposition bits were awesome! I was very disappointed in the show, but those extras were so cool.
Dresden Files! Yes, it had a horrible adaption years ago, but most folks have forgotten. 17 very popular books and counting. Not as expensive because it’s urban fantasy taking place NOW with contemporary sets and costumes. It has epic stories (the Winter Elves fighting a millennia long battle to prevent the END), intimate and heartfelt relationships, questions of what do you do with power. Got it all.😁
The future of fantasy is growing with the acceptance of animation and live action as equals but different mediums. Shows like Arcane (League of Legends), Vox Machina (Critical Role), and even looking back at the clone wars (Star Wars), are good examples of stories that CAN be done! We just have to be willing to accept animation for the differences it can provide in fantasy.
Patiently waiting for a Fourth Wing adaptation
4:28 Idk, the War of Wrath was peak middle-earth lore for me, it literally sunk a big part of the whole continent. I think originally Tolkien wanted the Silmarillion to release alongside the tLotR books but the book-publishers denied him this request which is probably one reason for why today many people know more about the actual LotR story and way less about the vast "Silmarillion" book lore, next to it being also harder to read/ comprehend (at least initially) than LotR imo.
Malazan could be the dark gritty thing. Cosmere can be hopeful and inter connected huge thing like mcu used to be. Sun eater could be the next big sci fi thing. Honestly if they adapt stuff faithfully everything would be wonderful and profitable
A Malazan show would be the hardest but probably the best if they could get it right
I hope to see Roger's Zelazny Amber's Chronicles one day. One of my favourite fantasy series of all time, but it seems pretty hard to adapt though
Kingkiller is so good but you're right that adapting it correctly would be... very difficult. Not fantasy, but Red Rising could easily be a banger if they do it right. Stormlight Archives is amazing, but I doubt they really start work on a full adaptation until the books are almost done. GOT suffered badly by running out of source material. Mistborn by Sanderson would be sick to see televised, definitely worth the read if you haven't done it. A very tidy and clean trilogy with an engaging world and awesome action scenes, perfect for a series or movie trilogy.
The best parts of KKC I found was the prose and stories, not so much the plot and characters. I think at BEST it would be extremely difficult to adapt, but realistically impossible. The only strength I found it has that lends itself to TV is world building.
The most hyped adaptation that im expecting are indeed fantasy the mistborn future movies. And I'm hoping that Bradley Cooper finally makes Hyperion movie is the perfect rival for Dune have a huge potential.
bradley cooper makes what now??? is that in the works?
@@justinbaker988 he bought the rights for Hyperion. He is a producer too
That's been development hell forever. They should have given it over to the folks who produced Black Mirror. Hyperion works as an anthology and they've excelled at anthology storytelling.
@@Greenslime300 the first book works as an anthology. If they only do the first book, though, they're gonna have a pretty weak story arc.
Mistborn movies with the scale of Dune for the gothic architecture would be a freaking amazing thing to see !!!
The next show that will get the level of attention that Game of Thrones got is going to be HBO's Harry Potter series. Yes, the movies will always be a huge part of our childhoods and for many our introduction into fantasy, and yes, a reboot is "unnecessary", but if it's going to happen you can bet your chocolate frogs that all of us millennials who grew up watching the movies and reading the books are going to watch the crap out of a Harry Potter show that will include a lot of what the movies left out (and the movies increasingly left out more and more as the series progressed).
The issue I see with a lot of these fantasy shows coming out is that the people creating the shows cannot do it without inserting/immersing their own personal/political ideologies into the show. Peter Jackson made it a point to adapt Tolkien as respectfully and truthfully as he could and the results speak for themselves. Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, Witcher all suffered from this. And sometimes I begin to wonder if the best people/most talented writers are getting the jobs because all of these shows suffered tremendously from horrible writing.
I have some hope for Harry Potter as I think the the same person who adapted His Dark Materials show on HBO is doing it, and I think she did a great job with His Dark Materials which was always going to be a difficult show to adapt as the books are quite complex.
I would love to see Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series get adapted. It was so cool. I think it is a fun mix of Avatar: Last Airbender and Ancient Rome and a variety of Mythology...It has six books, which is a great length for a tv series, and the series is actually completed! They tried to adapt Buther's Dresden Files a long time ago and it was horrible so I wont hold my breath lol.
I like fantasy, but i'm tired of nihilistic "everyone is just a different degree of evil" messaging like GoT and i'll never watch girlboss perversions like rings of power and gave up on the netflix witcher adaption where the witcher is a side character in his own show.
I think something inspiring like the peter jackson lord of the rings movies might work well. I don't think i'm the only one who is tired of the MCU "everything must be turned into a silly joke" formula.
The nihilistic, GoT-esque style always reminds me of that boat social experiment scene from the Dark Knight.
That was a scene that required people to simply choose good when they had every fear stacked up against them not to. Batman could do nothing, and Joker was confident that people were deeply flawed enough to fail. And yet, people chose good all on their own. The Joker was wrong, and he was alone in his evil.
Modern, cynical writing can never create a scene like that because they can't possibly conceive the idea that people wouldn't resort to selfishness. Heroes aren't just heroes, and normal people aren't simply honest, decent humans to them. In the modern style, those boats would blow up, and the villain (who, let's face it, are these cynical writers) will never be slammed in the face with the cathartic "you are alone in your evil" and have that be portrayed as a good thing
So you just want classic good vs evil stories. Gee I'm sure that won't get boring at all 🤡
@@rygord101 it's not just "good vs evil". It's freedom vs tyranny, loyalty vs obedience, courage vs compulsion.
People enjoyed stuff like that since the dawn of time. Good enough for me.
@@jjhh320 I think you guys are massively missing the point and themes of GOT if that's what you think of it.
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So just good vs evil stories? That shit gets formulaic real quick, why did you think classic hero epics of the ancient era turned into complex stories of different goods and different evils in the dawn of the pre-common era. From worshipping epic heroes to worshipping gods who are mostly terrible and complicated people. People have also been getting sick of stories like since the dawn of time cause people turn those kind of stories boring and unrelatable. It’s never a problem with the genre, people are just shit at writing stories sometimes.
I believe Dune right now is probably the Fiction world that is working the best.
I honestly believe filmmakers need to start hiring authors as lead writers and authors need to understand they have to be hands on.
Great idea. But like Sauron, lawyers and accountants don’t share power.
They need to bring back Shadow and Bone, cancelling it was such a shame
You mentioned Hollywood making movies as a reflection of the times we live in. That time we live in is adapted for TV from an AMERICAN point of view. That is the problem here. Nothing wrong with American/Hollywood storytelling, but it simply doesn't fit most classical fantasy stories. LOTR, for example, is written in a completely different time by a British author who fought in World War 1. Rings of Power, by all means, is an American piece of medium. It doesn't fit Tolkien. Part of why the LOTR trilogy worked, in my opinion, was because they weren't too much tied to Hollywood and were given (mostly) free reign. The Witcher is a Polish work of fiction; the adaptation by Netflix is the most pulpy and American thing I've seen in a while. It simply doesn't work. The themes and world-building of the books were nowhere to be seen in the adaptation. Even the costumes didn't look medieval/renaissance, which the Witcher world simply is. I like your idea of adapting more recent fantasy book series, like Stormlight Archive. Those series would be safer to adapt in this day and age. But if you think about it, it's just plain said Hollywood can't adapt classic fantasy right.
Martin is American and he made a brilliant piece of fantasy. Hollywood is in a quality dump phase for sure right now, but Americans have proven they can write proper fantasy.
@@seto_kaiba_don't forget Frank Herbert's Dune. This guy's point makes no sense
@@hunterhorsehelmsley7315 I'm not saying Americans can't write fantasy. Americans can write great fantasy. It's just that many recent adaptations are European by origin and made by Americans. My point makes sense. It doesn't work most of the time.
@@seto_kaiba_ Americans write great fantasy, read my reply in the comment thread.
@@FrancT-I think his point is any book adaptation these days will always include current political pov (specially American politics)
I’ve been reading rangers apprentice for the first time, and even though it would be really hard to adapt on screen, and probably wouldn’t get as big as other fantasy series’s, part of me still wants it to happen
Yes! My childhood!
It's a grave mistake to sell before ten years of publishing it.
In itself Brandon's work is a standalone masterpiece.
"It's basically Harry Potter if Harry's parents didn't leave him all that gold in the beginning."
THAT GOT ME LOL
The only story i can seriously think of making it to the level of GOT if done correctly is BERSERK
It literally has everything one of the greatest story, one of the greatest villain, different cultures and people of colour, and many more i can go on all day.
Oh wow, if it didn’t have people of color idk what I’d do, you certainly couldn’t adapt it or make skin color a natural aspect of the world in any other way (no I’m not referring to slavery)
For me alan wake and contral are going to be the biggest TV shows, when they Hit TV. Hopefully they do not get cancled , Fingers crossed.
How about Robin Hobb? Katherine Kerr's Deverry cycle? Raymond E Feist? Daughter of the Empire?
Hello. Six Studios has acquired rights to the first six books in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ international fantasy book series The Riftwar Cycle for television.
The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins would make a good show I think, but I understand the reservations around adapting YA IP. I recently reread the books as an adult and the world is rich with lore.
We need a stormlight archive adaptation
I think it would be cool to see The Black Company series adapted but the world is not ready
I read a article on Black Company’ series adaptation in works by IM Global & David Goyer but it's in 2017 and no more new today.
Comedy is the next genere to get big again, mark my word. It is the next thing.
Elric of Melniboné 🗣️
This doesn't mean much but i am working on a fantasy series that circle around the intrigue of court politics and a medieval warlike world that also touches on the day to day life of the lowborn in that world. Been working on book 1 for nearly 3 years now and getting close to being done!
3:56 - "The most interesting moment in time in the history of the whole fictional world..." - Except for the forging of the Silmarils; the destruction of Laurelin and Telperion; Feanor's oath and curse and his hunt for Morgoth; the events leading up to the doom of Beleriand; the tale of Beren and Luthien (which Tolkien himself has called the most important story in Middle Earth, by the way); Nirnaeth Aenodiad; Tùrin's story; Tuor's story; Earendil's story; Akallabêth and the fall of Numenor; the founding of Gondor and Arnor; the first Ring War... honestly, the Lord of the Rings is almost more like an aftermath.
This entire video is testimony of you not having read the Silmarillion. The stories in it are *much* larger and more epic in scale than the Lord of the Rings. Tolkien just didn't work them out into full novels for rather complicated biographic reasons. The point I would make here is actually a different one: It's that I'm pretty sure no one but Tolkien could do them justice. That's the problem with your metaphor of world-building as potential energy. No, not all the potential energy in Tolkien's world-building went into The Lord of the Rings, not by a long shot. But also, that doesn't mean this potential energy is just lying around waiting to be used. It's tied to the person of Tolkien, his specific talents, knowledge, personality and outlook on the world. Tolkien in particular did not build his world as a sandbox, and he had a strong distaste for people who would use it like that. Other fantasy writers may be different in that regard. I know I am. But also, few of them are as good as Tolkien.
Your video is really good I've receive the notification without being your sub. High quality for small channel now I'm a subscriber 😂
This video is great other than the fact that you know nothing of middle earth. The lore of the the lord of the rings trilogy is so tiny compared to everything tolkien made. There are over 20 books dedicated to telling his lore and you say its enough for "a few short stories" lmao, if only you knew.
If you haven't already, check out the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. I've always thought that would be a fun one to adapt! Otherwise it's gotta be mistborn or stormlight, but as someone else mentioned, Brando Sando wants to make sure it's done right, so it might be a while before we see it.
I think fantasy on screen lost its way long ago already for the same reason Tolkien didnt like Dune.
Someone shiuld really take a huge step back and ask what kind of deep collective unconsious well of vision we should drink from. Tolkien had a moral and ethic that was lost and forgotten and had significant value.
What lord of the rings really teach its reader is so much more empowering and beautiful then what lessions can be made from Game of Thrones...
I think one of the biggest issues is that a lot of major productions these days are starting to look and feel the same. They don't have their own flaire and visual language anymore. It all has this bland, hyper-sterile look. It doesn't feel real and grounded like Lord of the Rings or the original Star Wars movies did. I honestly doubt someone could tell a frame from The Witcher, Rings of Power or Wheel of Time apart purely based on visuals.
Tolkien never specified why he disliked Dune. Our hypotheses on why he didn't like it are, well, that. Hypotheses.
GoT does gives you that "everything is dark, empty and things like honour and a sense of duty are meaningless", but ASOIAF is far more complex like that. I could write so much about it, but I will give you a brief example.
Ned Stark and his son were ruthlessly executed by amoral people. Despite this, their teachings, honour, sense of duty and kindness is still remembered throughout the North, which is why the Northern houses *hate* the Bolton and Frey (well, besides the fact their kinsmen were also murdered in the Red Wedding, of course) and are planning to rebel, as implied by Lord Manderly.
@@TheDasilva1 It is easy to draw conclusions about why though, among the basic principles that guide Tolkien's writing is the alignment of personal morality and the greater good.
Unfortunately, they’re just going to keep pushing their weird racial politics, making every medieval village look like a modern airport lounge and people aren’t going to enjoy that, it breaks immersion.
Exactly, it’s a gimmick. Those shows are unwatchable. No one wants to see minorities in shows let’s be completely honest.
Why can they not make movues about uruk, sumeria, shiba, you can make movies about poc people withoit putting them in midevel europe.
Also stormlight works perfectly for an "expanded" universe. Since there like 15 more massive books set in the same setting across multiple planets. Sanderson should probably just make his own film studio, knowing how his Kickstarters usually go he could afford it.
Dragonsteel Cinematic Universe
ever since lord of the rings and star wars, the fantasy genre has been coming up and up
I think Stormlight could be adapted well into something like a cinematic universe since it is not overly concerned with being literary fiction. KKC in contrast I think would only work as a prestige tv series and even that is a stretch. Rothfuss relies on his prose to do a lot of heavy lifting which won't be easy to adapt.
I think The First Law could make a great show but Im worried they will try and whitewash the characters since preatty much everyone in the book is kind of evil. Also PLEASE let Gloria have internal monologues. I know its very rare in US series but his character will work so much better with them
agree on stormlight archive but that going to need a BIG BUDGET. them action scenes are no joke :)
You can technically count Dune as sort of a fantasy. I mean it's "sci fi", but it has many fantasy elements too. The two Dune films have immensely been successful!
@@vinfacts11 the other dune books really aren't movie material.
@@martinkunz7155 i can see being see an adaptation working up until childrem of dune
@@asura7915 yeah they could go for it, but i imagine people who watched the adaption of the first book would be quite surprised that the huge galactic war that starts at the end of the book is already over and is barely even mentioned. Felt like a scam when i first read the books.
Not immensely successful neither have even made a Billion. I like the movies but they don't have the appeal that Star Wars has or I should say had. Star wars has really fallen off since Disney took over.
@@bz6046 i'm glad it doesnt have appeal of SW. I'm not sure if kids are supposed to root for Paul .
Magic the gathering Ravnica series is what we need.
The black company series
Great Video!
J.V. Jones and the Sword of Shadows would make for a great "next Game of Thrones". Sadly, including the element that the author probably will never finish the book series... (started as a trilogy, previous book was published in 2010 and the upcoming "final" book might not even be the last one).
Wizard and Glass is so good. My favorite King book. So sad Amazon scrapped it. I watched the movie EXACLIBUR last night and thought the story of Arthur would make a great epic film or tv series. It’s been done before, but not for our generation and not with the budget and sincerity the material deserves
Words of Radiance is even better than Way of Kings. But yeah. However, I do wonder if they shouldn't start with Mistborn because it will be decades before Stormlight finishes, with Era 2 Stormlight using the same central characters as Era 1. That may be true of 1 or 2 Mistborn characters, as well, but not to the same degree. And it would be far more forgiving to use different actors even for these exceptions.
Sanderson is starting with Mistborn he is working on trying to get things rolling. Sanderson wants to do Mistborn first before he tackles Stormlight as an adaptation.
The Witcher had the potential to become THE new big thing however Netflix fucked it.
The problem are those studios and Stream services who hire "Certain" newcomers without any Story writing experience as screenwriters and give them full creative freedom.
I think we need studios and executives who are ready to take risks and hire people who actually respect the source material, there are dozens of great Books and Comics/Graphic novels just waiting to be adapted the way they are. Like American Vampire, or a proper high budget version of Journey to the West and blood meridian.
The Chrestomanci series would be interesting to me if adapted for a tv series. And the Howl's Moving Castle series (the Ghibli adaptation is too loose).
I need a Mistborn anime so badly
Sanderson is working on a Mistborn adaptation
My unfinished and unpublished fantasy epic I've been working on since 2022.
Hell yeah dude
They need to stop converting fantasy books into action movies/shows. If they did stormlight, it would be 80% fight scenes and none of the political/personal drama.
We need wonder and enjoyment in our escapism, not constant death and destruction.
While the ending isn't great. The lightbringer series would be good for TV.
Rather than "another GOT", I hope for series of Elric of Melnibone, the Chronicles of Amber, the Book of the New Sun, not big shows from big books, but cozy shows from favorite book series.
I disagree with you about The Wheel of Time --- I'm a huge fan of the books, I've read the whole series three times (and that's one long series), and I thought the first season was good enough and that the second season was excellent. I even quite like several of the changes they made in the adaptation (Perrin's early arc being one of the best). Season three is adapting what is widely considered to be the best book of the entire series (Book 4) and, with all of the Forsaken now on the field (and with them already having nailed the casting for Lanfear, Ishamael and Moghedien), I have high expectations and will be surprised if they aren't met. ( *Edit:* Great video, by the way, and I completely agree that Stormlight Archive would be a hit -- albeit one hell of an expensive one, especially in later books with all the gravity-wielders flying about in aerial combat. You deserve more subscribers!)
Brother, you gotta read the first law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie.
Just stopped to say, I loved this video. Have a good one :)
Mark Lawrence - The Broken Empire trilogy, and The Red Queen's War trilogy would be pretty cool! Make it R rated as it should be.
10:47 you give such ppl too much credit I'm afraid.
As for Fantasy TV shows, I think a video game adaptation might work. Like Elder Scrolls or Dragon Agr Origins. There can be the political intrigue with the adventure story.
After the big succsess of Fallout we actualy may get a elder scrolls show.
All the people with the money to make faithful adaptations have completely fucked over the creators without exception. George lucas, GRRM, JK Rowling, even Tolkien whos not alive to contest. Not one the companies holding these franchises are proving to be A) good custodians of the source material and B) respectful of the original creators or fandom.
If they were im sure a brandon sanderson would be willing to dip his toe into that world. I'd go as far as to say brandon sanderson is the perfect fantasy author for live action adaptation. He has interesting magic systems. Many books to adapt. Hes young and still very prolific. Literally a cash cow from an executive perspective...which is undoubtedly why theyd fuck it up
Joe Abercrombie’s meant to be getting a adaption of his First Law books at last… only it’s “Best Served Cold” that’s getting it first.
Why? Why would they not start at the beginning with the Blade itself. So silly
to be fair I think its a good idea, because best served cold is probably the best sel contained story from The first law books and its easier to lure audience with that. The blade itself even tho i love it is mostly just characters walking talking and thinking, not a lot fo action there. And you may love it or hate it, the normies would turn off tv after the first episode.
Malazan is the only adaptation i want to see from someone like Jackson.
I don’t disagree with this video generally but calling The Silmarillion and the rest of Tolkien’s work “dry crumbs” is fucking WILD lmfao. Unless I’m just misinterpreting. They’re definitely not material for TV adaptations, but dry is absurd.
Happily skipping over vigilante movies with a strong male lead in the 70s, because urban crime was out of control. No takers?
And women lead show that fought crime.
Easy proper adaptation of Eragon
Until we get rid of inclusivity and the current trend of Hollywood pushing everything it can into fantasy worlds and making New York out of it, we will never get good fantasy. Fantasy is supposed to be a break from reality, not its duplication. Fantasy is supposed to give us new adventures and experiences, and I don't have to be represented in them in any way to have fun with it. I'm disappointed with what they did with Rings of Power and The Witcher. Game of Thrones was great as long as it used books.
2 words:- Red Rising
Stormlight would need an insane budget but I need it
This one might ruffle some feathers, but A Court of Thorns and Roses. Considering how popular the romantasy subgenre has gotten, I think an ACOTAR adaptation could work really well.
I thought the same
Dark Tower is so fucking ass, cant understand when anyone says its "the best". Gunslinger was one of the worst books ive read in my entire life. Boring, vulgar, and strange.
Strange and vulgar are not a bad thing, just a matter or opinion. Boring doesnt say much
@@arthurhaag9434 well one scene in particular details a fathers hand and how it’s enveloped by his daughters breast. Vulgar and strange, added nothing to the plot, Stephen King is a weirdo pervert.
@@wolfs1bane never read it, but that does sound pretty fucking wierd
Dungeons and Dragons settings looks fresh for the taking. There was the movie last year that did recently well. Wound not mind seeing a show based on the Icewind dale trilody and the prequels. Though the books are relatively short, so it will probably succumb to writters/directors trying to extend each book to the typical 8x 40-50 min series.
As a super darkhorse, maybe Magic the Gathering. It has the player base, maybe with some decent execution it can be made to work?
Joe Manganiello tried to get Dragonlance done as a series but WOTC shelved it.
Farseer would make a fantastic show
Marvel isn't oversaturation it's just shitty writing and some bad acting, sets, storylines, etc.
KKC? That would definitely be the next game of thrones with a just as good as ending
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I think Wax and Wayne might be the best Cosmere material for a film adaptation, relatively contained plots, good humor, fast paced.
they already started a mistborn production, which was cancelled/laid on ice for now. stormlight would be really expensive the create the spren in cgi so they look good. but hollywood knows that mistborn+stormlight are THE stories to put on the big screen. The problem is that sanderson wrote the last Wheel of time books after jordan passed away. He sees what hollywood did to the series that got him into fantasy. He is not willing to give up controle over the adaptation to hollywood completely, at least not in the first seasons. And hollywood can't handle an author who does not need the money.
Stormlight Archives won't be the next Game of Thrones. It doesn't have enough sex in it. On a different note, I think there's still material to mine in Tolkien. Specifically, TV could potentially do real justice to the Baren and Luthien story and the darkest days of the war against Sauron's boss. But, honestly, I don't think there is a "next GoT". Just like there hasn't been and won't be a "next Star Wars". We have whole generations brought up to drug away or avoid any difficult emotions, and the very nature of "epic" is that it takes buy-in to difficult emotions. You have to feel the depths of apathy when Frodo succumbs to The Ring for the series to have "epic" impact. You have to feel something akin to terror when Vader shows up in "the hallway scene", and real anger and betrayal when they run into him in Cloud City. And true shock and horror about "I am your father". It's not epic without those strong, negative feelings. There are no heights of glory if comparable abysses of negativity don't await a misstep. And you can't feel those things if you're floating in a concoction of drugs meant to prevent anxiety, fear, anger, apathy. So, I don't think there is a new epic waiting in the wings. I really don't.
Before anything else comes out we need a paradigm shift in the medium and industry. I have completely lost all faith in Hollywood and believe they are irredeemable
You clearly have not seen the shift. The matlock, the substance, brothers, twisters (a bit lazy, but i love twister), longlegs, alien Romulus, the fall guy, boy kills World, Apartment 7a they are finale getting good again. It was a still bebouse of the strike and now it is getting better.
What is the background music it sounds soo soothing
Kingkiller Chronicles could be the next Game of Thrones, in the sense that the adaptation will eventually catch up to the source material, they will butcher the ending and the author will never finish the saga.
How about an Elders Scrolls, dragonborne series? If very well written (not like the Witcher) could be fun!
I would love to see the Belgariad on screen
Just hear me out, right now I’m writing a new medieval fantasy tv show that will be the next game of thrones, just give a couple years. Trust me, when you see it you’ll remember this comment
I think you could do an awesome Valdermar series from Mercedes Lackey.
The problem with Way of Kings is the setting. They would have to recreate the rocky landscape… and not just that, but also take people there to film the complex and interactive battle scenes. Let alone the costumes, the creatures… like the spren, the skyeels, all the crustaceans, the monsters (it will be very difficult to get it right on film without breaking the bank). It’s something that can only be possible with a huge budget at the film level and not a show… unless it’s something like HBO doing it, but with Sanderson as head of production and direction that is very technical and great art director as well. Then a group of great but low budget actors that will stick to it. It’s not something that a group looking for a quick cash grab group could do it service. I don’t see it happening ever lol.
Great video
I just want to watch something happy
Musics a little too loud, bring it down a few decibels. Otherwise good vid man.
Sadly the cosmere will be too expensive to adapt
He has more the enogh monry
Fantasy tv is dead
I’m actually so excited for the Dunk and Egg show. It should be unique in that it shouldn’t fall into the GOT world pitfalls.
Since they’re all self-contained, finished novellas, the writers will have the whole story to tell and won’t need to extrapolate (see GOT seasons 6-8)
And since there are no dragons in that time period in Westerosi history (spoiler, sorry) the show should not fall into the same budgeting constrictions.
The show should be a little more nuanced, focused more on intimidate character interactions, rather than spectacle; which won’t be for everybody sure. But I’m beyond here for it
What about The Dune franchise and Mortal Kombat series, theres also wings of fire and has everyone forgot the works of c.s.lewis aka THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA OR HOW ABOUT THE SPACE TRILOGY? There's also the Dragonriders of Pern, Dinotopia, the Earthsea chronicles.
Stormlight needs to be created like arcane...they could do so much more with magic or chasmfiends etc ...live action comes off as cheesy sometimes...