Andy92
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It's still in early planning stages. A film company picked up the option to make movies of multiple Cosmere books. They started working on The Way of Kings first, and they're also supposed to be working on The Final Empire now. It's still possible nothing may come of it, but there's at least a bit of a chance that Cosmere movies might start happening in a few years.
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I feel like you can simplify a lot of this for the screen and the audience will understand what's going on well enough. For example, you don't need to show blue lines when Allomancers are pushing/pulling on metals, all you have to show is the metal being physically pushed or pulled. You don't need blue lines everywhere for the audience to understand that there was a reason a coin just shot across the screen. For rioting and soothing, you can play a ton of tricks with the movie's musical score. Fast music displays the anxiety of a crowd whereas more calming music helps the audience understand the soothing situations. And I think a lot of the rioting/soothing moments can be worked into the dialog of the movie. For example, having characters explicitly saying on screen how they're going to use their Allomancy to soothe a chaotic crowd. Between camera filters and the music score, I think the audience can understand well enough what's going on. Take Star Wars for example. You can use the Force to physically move things (which isn't much different than pushing/pulling), but you can also use it for emotional control (like the interrogation scenes in Episode 7).
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Honestly fighting Lynels isn't too difficult once you figure out some of the recipes that refill all of your hearts plus give you bonus yellow hearts lol. Some of them can be a pain in general though. Farming star fragments to upgrade your armor sets to the highest level helps a lot.
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The thing is that there is an entire market of movie watchers who simply don't read 1,000 page novels. I don't see a movie adaptation as a substitute for the books, I just see them as a nice compliment for a different market. LOTR was done amazingly well even though they had to cut out chunks of the book like @Jondesu mentioned. A movie or TV show of SA to me would be successful based on on how accurately it portrays the main story of the books, not that it contains every last detail (which is impossible to expect).
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Oh yeah, duh. My mind was thinking towards the magic systems and Shards. Thanks.
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Nothing wrong with that either, my personal bias just tends to not recommend Elantris as much as the other books. It's a decent story but you can tell it was his first published work. I usually recommend it to people who are wanting to dive into the Cosmere more, so for the OP it fits anywhere on a reading timeline really. For curiosioty, which SA tidbit are you referring to? I can't think of it offhand. (You can spoiler tag it or PM me).
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I would suggest: Warbreaker The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Mistborn Era 2 Elantris Arcanum Unbounded
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I started with the Mistborn trilogy and went into Stormlight Archive next. The Way of Kings is my favorite Sanderson book so I obviously highly recommend it. Your other options include the Era 2 Mistborn books starting with The Alloy of Law. These books take place on the same planet as the first trilogy a few hundred years later with new characters. If you'd rather read a standalone book next, try Warbreaker. I personally didn't read Elantris for a while, and it's not something you have to read next. In my opinion it's not as exciting as his other books, but it's still a decent read.
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Kandra. Would rather not have to worry about having Breath fed to me on a weekly basis. Plus, I'd pretty much be an immortal shape-shifter. Would you rather hang out with Vin for one day or Wayne for one day?
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Appreciate it. Looks like I'll either be speed reading this summer or waiting until the DVD release.
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I just started reading The Dark Tower books recently (currently on the 2nd one). Does anyone know if the movie coming out is going to cover events from all 7 books? I'd hate to see it and have some big ending spoiled, but I don't know if I'll finish them all by August either. Might just wait until it comes out on DVD. But if it only covers the first few books then I'd probably be okay. I just don't know what the movie is planning to cover.
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So you could figuratively and literally eat a storming carrot.
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My general understanding of it is that one of the Bondsmiths makes a bond with the Stormfather, which in this case is Dalinar. It is highly presumed that the 2nd Bondsmith bonds with a spren of Cultivation, although at this point the book hasn't mentioned who that Bondsmith is. So the question about the 3rd Bondsmith is mainly asking "which spren does the last Bondsmith bond with if the first two bond with Honor and Cultivation?" I also know that Gavilar was on the path to becoming a Bondsmith as well. Interesting to think about which spren he would have bonded with.
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I agree with theories that the Parshendi are the original natives of Roshar. It's very possible that an advanced society found Roshar only to have most of its technology/history of that tech to be destroyed during the Desolations. I believe the Parshendi's carapace skin was a natural evolution of the planets' native race to help them better survive the high storms.
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White Sand should count as Cosmere in some way. If I was guessing, I'd imagine the three graphic novels will count as the "one" White Sand novel since Brandon already wrote it as one book. Using that assumption, we're down from 9 to 8. I could see something like this being the other 8: - 5 Dragonsteel books - 2 more Elantris books - Nightblood I could also see Dragonsteel being a trilogy, leaving a couple books to use in other places. I would personally like to see a standalone Threnody novel. I believe I read somewhere that Brandon said if he ever decides to release a Threnody novel, it would be his darkest book. Now that I think about it, I also thought I read somewhere that he planned for Dragonsteel to be like 6 books? I could be wrong on that one though. Edit: All of my thoughts were mostly ninja'd.
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I never saw the Ring as corruptive in and of itself. The Ring grants power, and the hearts of most men can't handle that without becoming corrupted (that's why Gandalf thought the hobbits would be better at carrying the Ring than men would in the first place). There's a scene in the books where someone puts on the Ring and it seems to have no affect on them as well. So unlike Nightblood that drains Investitute from its wielder regardless of who it is, the Ring seems to amplify whatever is in the heart of its holder.
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I had wondered in the past of there was something important with Odium's number being 9 and having 9 of the Herlads abandon the Oathpact. I do think there may be some merit to the idea of Odium "breaking" each of the Heralds with a certain intent behind manipulating them in the process.
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Seems accurate since Ruin and Morgoth were both involved in the creation process of their respective worlds. I actually never thought about all the similarities between Middle Earth and Scadrial before.
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I think there's an official game guide out there which might show the locations to everything. I'm not 100% sure on that but I'm pretty sure I've seen a guide for sale.
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Am I the only person who doesn't like Name of the Wind?
Andy92 replied to matademonios's topic in Entertainment Discussion
Finished The Wise Man's Fear last night. A lot longer than the first one, and probably not as good overall, but for the most part I still enjoyed it. Would say I'm excited for the third book, but it's probably best to not get worked up thinking about it lol. -
Just got 90 myself. I've been able to find tons of them by looking at open spaces on my map, but the Shrine Quests where you have to start conversations with the right people to make invisible shrines appear are the tough ones. Sometimes you have to talk to people in the most random places to start a quest.
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The easiest way to get it is to sign up for Brandon's newsletter. There will be a link to the prose version in the welcome letter.
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Or you could Soulcast something like an arm into metal, forge it into the shape of a sword...
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Gave an upvote for originality. I personally feel like the reason Vasher wanted to keep Nightblood a secret was based on the pure destruction the sword causes, not necessarily because the process for making it was so gruesome. But your guess could be along the right track. Maybe the link needed to Awaken metal is a darker process.
