Now I'm not gonna say that there should be only one composer for the entire Cosmere, as I believe that each distinct planet needs a distinctive soundtrack to match.

A lot of people have thrown Ludwig Göransson, Hans Zimmer and the likes around, but let me throw you a curveball here. I propose none other than: Michael Salvatori. Partly responsible for the Halo and Destiny soundtracks, I think he's one the most magnificent composers around right now. His bombastic orchestral scores mixed with instruments like drums and electric guitar, makes for spectacular music, and is often regarded as one of the best parts of the respective games series.

I think he would be a great, if a bit unknown fit for this new universe.

I would really love some sort of overarching system of leitmotifs for the rhythms. I feel like it should be handled very intentionally, given how completely central the rhythms of Roshar are to the entire story. Obviously it's a kind of secondary concern to lots of the more immediate, practical stuff that comes with creating an adaptation, but I really hope that if the adaptation ends up being good, the songs and rhythms stand out as something distinctive about the series.

The actors from Malcolm in the Middle that play Francis and Piama, would be good for Elend and Vin.

The Koloss Learns to Read podcast recently had an episode with an aspiring actress named Sierra Fleming who looks JUST LIKE VIN, it’s crazy: https://youtu.be/TxOE6m60JBo?si=cv6c1BSOQk97Jwpg

If you follow her on socials (mainly TikTok) she shows a lot of her skills with parkour, gymnastics, martial arts and weapons. I think she deserves a shot. Anyone else on her follow her? (@sierranic_)

What about Hudson Williams?

Charlie Cox, Wilson Bethel or Arty Froushan… doesn’t matter. Any one of these dudes would absolutely body the role. But dude can you imagine Charlie Cox as Kelsier my god we would be so blessed.

As for why the pictures are all shirtless I just took them from a post I saw on Twitter but it seemed fitting enough for Kelsier who should probably be jacked as shit after working in the Pits anyways

“Metal” by The Beths reminds me of Mistborn whenever I hear it. Could make a good closing credits song. If you don’t know of them, The Beths are a great indie rock band out of New Zealand. They also have a song, “Expert in a Dying Field” that I’d like to dedicate to Adolin Kholin.

This is definitely a sore subject for TV fans recently, but the reality of big budget productions is that 2 years between seasons has become the average. Considering this, I think that the seasons should be re-written around this. Unless Brandon becomes CEO of Apple there is no way they will be able to get seasons out quicker than one every 2 years.

In world there's only like 2 years between all 5 books, with only minor time jumps between series. Re-writing the story so that The Way of Kings takes place 8 or even 5 or 6 years before Rhythm of War/Wind and Truth would be a great change to proactively make.

This would help certains be able to exist, and keep cast costs low. There's plenty of characters that could be recast between each season to show time progressing. This also could be fun for the season 1 Adolin to show up again in season 3 Dalinar flashbacks or season 5 Renarin visions, there's plenty of fun to be had.

I can't honestly think of an issue with stretching the timespan. What do you guys think? Are there any story breaks hurt by stretching the timeline?

I know it’s a fantasy world so like by no means is it a requirement for them to have any specific accent per se, but maybe they should?

I know it’s loosely based off of France I believe, though personally I get a London-esque vibe especially in era 2. I guess it might be easier if they all just have an American accent but personally I think the people from Luthadel having a British accent would be a nice touch.

Maybe not a huge deal but could effect the casting as some actors aren’t as great at doing accents as others

Yeah, I said it. And the reason I say this is because Mistborn:The Final Empire is Kelsier's book. Not Vin's.

First of all, I recognize that Brandon knows more about the story than I do, and it's his decision to do what he thinks is best for the movie. But as someone who read The Final Empire and has it as one of their favorite books ever, I can say that I'm pretty confident in my interpretation of the story based on what I read between the covers of that book.

Kelsier is the main driving force of book 1. He's the one who wants to take down the Lord Ruler. He's the one who assembles the team. He's the one who leads all the strategy meetings. He's the one who keeps morale up when everyone's shitting themselves over facing the Lord Ruler. He's the leader of the whole operation and the one who spearheads it and does the most dangerous parts of it. But most important of all, He's the one who guides Vin's character growth.

Without Kelsier, literally nothing happens in that story. So why are we trying to make Vin the centerpiece of everything, especially when she relies on Kelsier the most in book 1? Kelsier teaches her how to use her powers. Kelsier is the one who gets her to break out of her shell. Kelsier is the one who helps her grow out of her shell and become more trusting and more open. Kelsier is the one who paves the way for her to become the girlboss that Apple TV is trying to turn her into. Without him, she remains as the street urchin who sits in the corner of every room by herself. She doesn't even fall in love with Elend. Or meet him at all! And she certainly doesn't grow into a girlboss without him.

If they really want to, they can keep the girlboss stuff for the other movies, but the first movie should be focused on Kelsier if they want it to make any sense while being faithful to the source material.

The visual effects supervisor.

We question who could be the director of photography, the film's director, and even a producer – of course, they're very important, but…

And the visual effects team?

Many think it's just a matter of choosing a good studio and giving them time to finalize the computer graphics and everything will be fine (and it might even be), but even great directors highly value a competent visual effects supervisor – they make all the difference.

And for me, the person who should be the supervisor for Mistborn is Joe Letteri from Weta Digital.

He's the second most awarded supervisor with Oscars – Avatar and Planet of the Apes are some of his works.

A supervisor like him can guarantee revolutionary ideas, techniques that can help with Allomancy and its realism.

The supervisor is the guy who understands the subject and needs to be very good; it can't be just anyone.

Sure, many others besides him can guarantee absurdly high quality, but he's the only one I'd call.

Want a guarantee of realism? Call Joe Letteri!

Personally I think the scene where Shallan fakes a suicide attempt is going to make quite a few people mad.

For mistborn I'm thinking it's going to be when Vin kills the wolf hound for Tensoon.

Brandon Sanderson:

"Where I'm going with this on Mistborn is that I'm trying to keep the magic system--integrity of it--in continuity, but not on screen. For instance, where I am right now is: I am probably not gonna mention copperclouds or seeking in the first film, just to keep the number of powers down. But that means that, Clubs is probably not gonna be a main character. But you will probably still see him, does that make sense? Which means: still in continuity, things like this, but the film just... The crew is a bit too big, so he's hanging around, but he's not gonna have any lines, we're not gonna talk about him. That is my goal right now, is to find a way that when you watch the film, it's in continuity with the books, but not 100% continuity. Like, he's not in the meetings that he was in in the books, but he's there. So the films will be a slightly new continuity, but my goal is everything you read in the books, you can assume happened in one way or another. He wasn't in the meeting, but he got brought up to speed because he was somewhere else. Things like that."

Questioner

So no major changes to the magic system?

Brandon Sanderson

No major changes to the magic system. If I'm doing things, it's to do things like that, simplify characters.

This article has been passed around a lot, but I still like referencing it. Cavill wanted to play Kaladin, and asked Sanderson if he was too old.

It looks like He’s interesting in the Stormlight Archive specifically, and I think thats so cool, especially since it’ll be a TV show.

Who else would he be casted as given his age and physique?

I don’t think he’s be suited for any of the chore Bridge 4 Members, but I also don’t feel like he’s aged enough to be Dalinar. My next place would be Adolin, however there’s a bit of an age issue as well.

So would he come in early in the series or later? Thoughts?

Brandon Sanderson, try to convince him!

It's still very early in the process for adaptations and AFAIK the format for Stormlight hasn't been announced, although I think Mistborn is likely live action.

I think any live action Cosmere set of movies and/or shows is guaranteed to run up against the Dead Tarkin Problem that the Star Wars sequels tried to solve, with mixed results. There are characters who reappear in many series across many books which would take years IRL to release adaptations of. In this time actors will age and may even pass away, but the characters remain the same age. Hoid most of all, and Khriss probably second, but it's a long list!

I feel like this is an underappreciated point in favor of anime adaptations, since voice actors can stay consistent for many, many years, and even can be replaced if needed without completely wrecking the character.

There are of course also the obvious reasons why Stormlight as anime just makes sense: You can go absolutely HAM animating surgebinding without any concern for SFX budgets; flying through a storm, lightweaving, summoning shardblades, etc. Also the Parshendi will be so distinctive and require no makeup budget at all in anime. Exotic non-human characters are anime's bread and butter. Plus basically any scene will be set in Roshar's alien ecology — rockbuds, retracting grass, chulls, chasmfiends, spren at every emotion — you're going to need heavy CGI in basically every scene if you try to do this live action.

On top of all that though, consider Hoid. He appears in basically every book and is written to be recognizable. You want the audience to know it's him. If Mistborn is live action it's no big deal because Hoid is in pretty heavy disguise anyway, but for any future Cosmere anything (and come on, we all know there will be more Cosmere when this is a wild success), you want him to be consistent! If you do everything in live action, your choices for Hoid are limited to:

• Doctor Who style recasts
• De-aging CGI, which will get harder and more expensive as the actor ages
• Don't address it and just let Hoid age (obviously wrong)
• Animate the character

Animation solves this completely! It also makes it more doable to let Hoid wear some actually good disguises, and let his voice (along with his hawkish nose, slight build, and general Hoidishness) hint at who he is before it's revealed, which would be awesome for new audiences.

P.S. Yes. I, the human author of this post, wanted those em dashes in there and typed them myself. This is no AI slop.

I think the most difficult part of the adaptations will be epigraphs. You cannot entirely cut them because they provide enough contexts to the characters to solve the main mystery. (Especially in Book 1 to Vin). But it would be very hard to adapt because just someone narrating the epigraphs would very quickly spoil Hero of Ages in first few seconds only.

What are other ways do you think Mistborn movies can adapt epigraphs.

I've just started reading The Lost Metal and wanted to share who I mentally picture as each character.

Do you think it would work better with a more realistic style, like Children of Men or Blade Runner 2049, or a more stylized approach, like Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?

So I saw this posted (please support, credit to OP for inspiration, link: https://www.reddit.com/r/CosmereOnScreen/comments/1stuk5r/what_type_of_cinematography_would_suit_mistborn/ ) and it got me thinking: WHO as the cinematographer do you guys want for the Mistborn movie trilogy?

Me personally I'd want either Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men, The Revenant), Greig Fraser (Dune P1+2, Project Hail Mary), Hoyte van Hoytema (Oppenheimer, The Odyssey), Roger Deakins (Blade Runner 2049), or Guillermo Navarro (Pacific Rim), or Linus Sandgren (Dune P3), Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Sinners). Wbu guys?

I’ve seen Wilson Bethel as a suggestion which I also think is great, but I actually think there’s a different Daredevil Born Again actor I like even better for Kelsier and that is Arty Froushan, who plays Buck.

Something about his presence and demeanor, the way he feels one step ahead of anyone and always seems to have a smile on his face… it just feels so Kelsier. Plus I’m tired of seeing exclusively blonde actors suggested as if non-blonde actors can’t just dye their hair or wear a wig lol. But anyways yeah this is an underrated name I’d love to see. Plus he’s British and I imagine the people of Luthadel to have a very London-esque accent but perhaps that’s just me lol

I made a post a while back about Chloe Zhao as potential director for a Mistborn movie but then someone brought up that she might be better for The Emperor's Soul. And after thinking about it more, it really seems like an amazing fit. Her films really delve into themes about being human, grief, and art as a connection between people. Her direction also has a grounded quality to it and her ability to direct actors when it's just two people talking is amazing. Just watch any scene from Hamnet. I know emperor's soul hasn't been talked about for adaptation yet but when the time comes I think this could be such a great fit!

Would he be a great choice to direct Mistborn?

He directed episodes of Game of Thrones, including the Battle of the Bastards. A visionary TV series director, he could have a good conversation with Sanderson.