AndrewStirlingMacDonald Posted February 7, 2016 Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 I remember hearing a while back that a Chinese company had purchased film rights to The Emperor's Soul. I think I even remember Brandon saying something about how an executive from the company, DMG, went "all the way down the Cosmere rabbit hole." (although it might've been someone else saying that). Anyway, I stumbled across this today: http://jazzy-kandra.tumblr.com/post/138813373633/more-about-tes-film?utm_campaign=SharedPost&utm_medium=Email&utm_source=TumblriOS Is this legit? Has anyone else heard anything about this project? It seems like they are pretty far into the process for nobody to have heard ANYTHING yet... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted February 7, 2016 Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 This is the first I've seen of this (though that was only posted yesterday so I'm not surprised it hasn't crossed my tumblr dash yet) but Bota is respected member of the tumblr fandom (and is actually the Chinese translator for Words of Radiance). So if she says this conversation happened, I absolutely believe her. As for why we haven't heard anything much about this before now, it might be as simple as Brandon & co. being contractually obligated to stay quite for now and since DMG is based in China it's harder for us to get wind of anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Anamaximder Posted February 7, 2016 Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 Shoot it within the year!!! Wow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haradion Drogon Posted February 7, 2016 Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 This is interesting.I just wonder how well they'd be able to do the whole Cosmere.Would it be filmed in Chinese?Slightly nervous now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewStirlingMacDonald Posted February 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 (edited) I believe yes, this would be a Chinese version of the story. I that international film IP rights are usually done ala carte, though, so a Chinese studio producing Cosmere films should have an impact on Dragonsteel's ability to also sell them to an English market. Actually, if the Chinese version does will, it would probably IMPROVE those chances. Edited February 7, 2016 by AndrewStirlingMacDonald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted February 7, 2016 Report Share Posted February 7, 2016 I'm pretty sure it would be in English, like the other movies they've produced are Iron Man 3, Looper, and the remake of Point Break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botanica Posted February 8, 2016 Report Share Posted February 8, 2016 Yeah that is my post =) I actually got the news just the day before yesterday. I knew this DMG staff for some time. IIRC his superior is in charge of the film project, so this friend's words can be trusted =) Last year he told me they would do TES film and that totally surprised me. It is supposed to be a co-production with some Chinese/Asian influence (but not set in a specific country or dynasty/era). The cast should be global, which means the film is likely to be in English. Though they seemed to have decided to find a Chinese actress to play Shai. But please note that what was said in the post has not been confirmed by Brandon & co. yet, so everything can change at this point. I will keep in touch with those DMG folks =) 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Palmer Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Considering how much eastern culture seems to have influenced the creation of Elantris and Emperor's Soul I think that having a Chinese company work on it is a great idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecohansen Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Botanica, 在哪里买得到“皇帝魂”e-book? 我要用它练习汉语， 可是amazon 和 google play 好像不卖这本书。 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datan Nomlibash Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 It feels like I'm getting a second christmas right now, Emperor's soul is like one of my favorite books ever! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Seon Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) Well... it would definitely be the easiest book to adapt on film. Edited February 10, 2016 by Navy Seon 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfa Posted February 10, 2016 Report Share Posted February 10, 2016 Well... it would definitely be the easiest book to adapt on film. Yes, but on the other hand this movie could end in something like a "one-room-theatre". Nothing wrong with it, but not that popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botanica Posted February 11, 2016 Report Share Posted February 11, 2016 Botanica, 在哪里买得到“皇帝魂”e-book? 我要用它练习汉语， 可是amazon 和 google play 好像不卖这本书。 这本书有两个版本，分别是简体中文版和繁体中文版，不知你想看哪一个？台湾那边有实体书，书名就叫《皇帝魂》，里面还收录了Brandon写的其他几部中短篇，不过我不太清楚有没有电子书；内地的译文则刊登在一本奇幻杂志上，目前并没有正式出版，但我这里有全文的扫描版电子书，如果你有需要，又愿意透露你的邮箱地址，我可以把文件发给你 =) Just in case, I write this again in English: This novella was translated into both simplified and traditional Chinese. I wonder which version you'd like to read? In Taiwan, TES was included in a short fiction collection titled 皇帝魂. They've released physical books but I'm not sure if ebooks can be found. While in mainland, the translation was only published in a fantasy magazine. I believe there's no official ebook, though a friend of mine managed to make a scanned version of the whole text and then convert it into pdf format. If you need it, I can send it to you via email =) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted March 23, 2016 Report Share Posted March 23, 2016 Are there any updates on the Emperor's Soul film, or the cosmere cinematic universe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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