Steelheart optioned for film by FilmEngine

Seven figures. Nice payday for a book he wrote on an airplane. I am suddenly very glad that Brandon is a stand-up guy, because I would probably lapse into Turtledove style mass-production at those rates. EDIT: I'm stupid.

Anyone else notice that Brandon's short stories are flying off the shelves for live-action these days? {EDIT: Still stupid} Maybe the big stuff is simply too complex for their puny TV brains. {EDIT: Now I still maintain that this one is clever}

*Goes back to watching Jericho on Netflix*

He didn't write Steelheart on a plane. It's been in planning for a couple years now.

Also, this one was written with being turned into a movie. It was part of a set of movies that was pitched to hollywood a while back. Still, super exciting to finally see movement.

Well, I guess I'm incredibly misinformed then.

I suppose my brain was still in "that's a lot of short stories" mode when Steelheart was announced.

Legion was the one he wrote on a plane

Legion was the one he wrote on a plane

Yes, I know.

*Crawls deeper into sad, sad hole in the ground*

Legion was the one he wrote on a plane

Source? I know that Emperor's Soul was done on the plane back from Taiwan, but I haven't heard anything like that about Legion.

Source? I know that Emperor's Soul was done on the plane back from Taiwan, but I haven't heard anything like that about Legion.

Legion was on the plane back from France.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/Legion

Does FilmEngine have any kind of reputation? I don't know a thing about them, other than that The Butterfly Effect looked quite silly. This is quite cool, at least, even if it hardly guarantees anything.