Mason Wheeler Posted February 28, 2017 Posted February 28, 2017 I looked, but didn't find any topics about this. So in case you didn't see the blog post, Brandon recently did an interview with Bulgarian fantasy outlet Shadowdance. You can read the interview in English or Bulgarian here. Here are a few highlights. When asked about writing screenplays for Cosmere or WoT movies: Quote Brandon: I am not a screenwriter. That's the thing that people miss. Me trying to write a screenplay would be a little bit like a basketball player trying to play soccer. They might have a leg up on just your average person, because they have practiced a skill very similar, but it doesn't mean they'll automatically be great at it. If only he had said baseball instead of soccer. The Michael Jordan jokes would practically tell themselves! The Mistborn: The Final Empire cover from the Spanish translation is truly horrible: But Brandon doesn't hold it against the artist. He didn't have much to work with, because the artwork was commissioned before the Spanish translation was done. (Which immediately raises three more questions: Why did they commission it so early, why not commission it from someone who could read English, and why do they need a new piece of cover art in the first place?) On literary quality: Quote Brandon: I wish that in higher education there weren't this sense that certain genres are less worthy. It really bothers me. It bothered me all through my masters degree. I am a strong advocate and proponent for the power of what science fiction and fantasy can do. We have to be careful, though, as a genre, not to let ourselves fall into the same trap. Meaning, it's very easy to say, “Oh, well, you just haven't read the right kind of science fiction. We have great science fiction, but most of it's crap.” I think that we shouldn't be saying things like that. I think that we should be looking at what people love, and finding why it's so powerful and important to them, rather than saying here is this other thing that they should love instead. We have this dichotomy where we equate popularity with lack of quality. You brought up Harry Potter, which I think is very high quality work. I think it's excellently done. There's a lot to learn from it, and has done more for literature than most books that have won national book awards or Nobel Prizes in the last 20 years. But they would not give a Nobel Prize to Harry Potter, of course. Also, a bunch of fun official and fan artwork, including this: 1
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