Could Stormlight Archive be successful with a TV adaption like GoT and if so would you rather it be Anime or real people.

[mirahound she/her]

As much as I would love to see something like this, I'm honestly not sure it could work very well. Too much of the story happens inside the character's minds.

 

For example, Szeth can be a pretty sympathetic character in the book. But if you were just watching him from the outside he looks like nothing more than a psychopath. He hardly ever speaks. It would be difficult to portray his descent into madness without changing his character quite a bit. How do you portray the screaming in his head without it being awkward?

 

Eshonai is another good example. The entire Listener race, for that matter. The amount of exposition you'd need to explain all the things the characters just happen to know would get pretty awkward. How do you explain the meaningful difference between the Rhythms? Most of it is felt by the character. We know the significance of the entire population singing to Awe only because Eshonai knows what the song means. If we just witnessed the characters singing it how do we know what it means? Does someone name the song out loud?

 

All of the PoV characters would have this problem to some extent. Dalinar never ever speaks about his memory loss. Does the audience hear Shshshsh when Dalinar does? And what about the spren? Does someone name each and every one out loud? If you've read the books you'd probably recognize them but what about someone who's just watching the show? It could get really confusing really easily.

 

Exposition would need to be handled very carefully not to ruin the whole experience. I'm not sure it's really possible to do on-screen.

 

I hope to be proven wrong, though.

... Is it bad I would love to hear Shshshsh every time Dalinar did? I kinda think it would be funny...

[Maple Duke he/him]

This is slightly off topic but I always imagined dalinar looking like Christopher Lee. Not perfectly but with that in mind it could be possible to do a live adaptation you just have to replace the alethi or horneater's or whatever race with a real one from earth and add a little makeup and a wig if needed to make it different enough.

 

Despite that I agree that "Avatar: last airbender" style animation with "Avatar" movie quality world would be flippin awesome. No questions asked that would be the way to go.

 

I also like the Idea of the story being totally different from the books (the last desolation maybe?)

[rbnguevara]

Ok new thought Stormlight Archive "LEGO MOVIE". And Andale in response to your concern about character inner thoughts. Anime does this perfectly all the time. It's easier with anime than with real people to do that and it seems a natural form of expression.

[Quiver he/him]

I might be odd, but i would rather an adaptation focus on the flora/fauna over the story. Its just i feel like the world of Roshar is so well built, with many different cultures and races...

If I was going to make a t.v. show, it would be anime in a similar art style to Mushi-shi. It would follow the story of some merchant or wanderer, really immersing us in the world, from the Theylana to Aimia to the Reshi Isles. It would start around the same time as the books, would move along with the books, referencing the shattered plains, everstorm, parshendi, etc., and have the occasional main book character cameo.

I think if they did something like this they would not only nearly remove the risk of ruining a great story, but also help Sanderson show his awesome world.

 

 

So you want a TV show about Rysn?

 

 

basically

 

UPVOTES. YOU GET THEM.

 

...I am a total Rysn fanboy lol

[Bort he/him]

Ok new thought Stormlight Archive "LEGO MOVIE". And Andale in response to your concern about character inner thoughts. Anime does this perfectly all the time. It's easier with anime than with real people to do that and it seems a natural form of expression.

 

I want to see a Lego SA movie!!!