Terris: Wrought of Copper and Mistborn film rights lapse

Don't let JJ Abrams get his hands on Mistborn.  He's an egotist who will insist on doing it HIS way, and screw canon.  A JJ Abrams Mistborn movie will involve much violent explosions, lens flares, shaky camera, and plot holes.  

My advice is, get Joss Whedon.  He's hot stuff right now, but he's got the same storytelling style as Brandon has, and his action scenes play out a lot like Brandon's.  They'd work really well together.  

Actually, the J.J. Abrams joke was one Brandon told at SpoCon. He jokingly said something along the lines of "If someone's uncle was J.J. Abrams and was a big fan of Mistborn, that certainly would help".

That said, I'd much rather have Joss Whedon work on it. Or Joss Whedon work on everything, really.

Sorry. Crafty Games told us ages ago that the Terris supplement would be before the Alloy one but I guess I assumed everyone would find out through the 17th Shard hivemind (I'll see if I can find a link to where they say this). If there is another update like that, where would you like me to post it?

EDIT: Okay, I could be wrong... but I am, like, 80% sure they responded to this

http://www.crafty-games.com/forum/index.php?topic=7207.msg134510#msg134510

confirming that Terris would be first. Perhaps they deleted the response because they don't like to give out information they aren't sure of?

I hadn't heard of it before now, but entirely possible they announced it and I completely missed it. Please let me know if you find the original link announcing it!

Will do.

Due to the original plans the Terris-supplement was supposed to be the first digital-only accessories of Mistborn, and AoL the first printed supplement.
 Check the comments of the following facebook-post

 

From the first hangout, it appears the Terris supplement is going to be first to print and digital. Digital orders and print preorders are starting on March 3rd.

There's so much potential for Mistborn to be an awesome movie and I hope hope hope that it will be, but I can see plenty of ways that it could also be a total flop.  What comes to mind is the film adaptation of The Last Airbender.  They had awesome source material, but they lost the soul of the characters going to the big screen when they condensed a season of episodes into a single movie.  For a Mistborn movie to succeed, it can't be about the magic, awesome though it may be.  It has to be about Vin, about learning to trust and love and believe and fight for a better life in a world of ruthlessness, betrayal, hopelessness, and oppression.  The real heart of both a good fantasy novel and a good fantasy movie is what you learn about humanity in the real world.  When I first read the Mistborn trilogy, I was taken aback at just how much there was to learn from these characters.  I just hope any potential director realizes that.

Sorry for the long post, but really, this is why I love Sanderson's works - I come for the fun, but stay for the soul.

Re: The Terri's Book

I ran the adventure in the book at Gencon and it is very well done. My players got invested fast and the nature of the important decisions that had to be made were the source of some major in-character discussions.

It starts off as being hired to find a city Terrisman, who up and killed a high-ranking officiate in the Ministry of Steel at a local shop, before the ripples from that event but ends up leading the characters down an unexpected path.