How To Adapt The Way Of Kings For TV

[@emptyshogun]

As much as it pains me, henry cavil will be a great casting for Amaram, it would make the twist extra painful since no one would expect henry cavil to be such a bad guy.

[@elyzc3445]

If you are true to the books this would not work since most characters in stormlight, especially the Alethi are supposed to look Asian.

[@pranavprasad8793]

​@@elyzc3445 is Asian as in East Asian? I pictured Kaladin as brown like the Indian or Middle easter look and Kholin family as black, like Jasnah is supposed to be black right? And Dalinar like I pictured him as like Idris Elba or something.

[@tonyzuma93]

​@elyzc3445 Question: as serious book fans, would/should this be a grevious error if they casted Alethi as not just Asian-ish? I honestly think that 10 years from now, an older Henry Cavil would knock Dalinar out of the park. (Not just Amaram) Regardless, I feel like the vibe and quality of the individual actor is what's critical.

[@finnbailey8498]

@@pranavprasad8793 yeah probably closest to middle eastern and similar to indian/ polynesian id say

[@pranavprasad8793]

@@tonyzuma93 I mean Sanderson pretty much made it clear. You get a big Hollywood actor calling you up, some people would let him hang there, Sanderson outright said he ain't it. So Sanderson pretty much set his way on what they look like. SA is probably one of the few big Fantasy series that has such a diverse mix of races. It feels so natural why change it, I'm sure there are a lot of Asian Actors who can fit the bill, even if we look outside Hollywood. If they had to cast Henry Cavill, then they'll have to cast more white people for Alethi roles otherwise it won't make sense. Like SA won't be one of the biggest series or movies where they can naturally cast POC actors, because the original source material allows and people won't make huge fuss about it being gender swapped or race swapped

[@zacharyhockett6248]

This video make me realize that I've been subconsciously distancing myself as a fan to protect myself from heartbreak when this whole thing goes corporate.

[@qsters]

One of the main reasons it hasn’t been done yet is due to Brandon Sanderson trying to prevent it from going corporate. He doesn’t need Hollywoods money, and he wants to have the majority of the control on the creative decisions made.

[@americanbagel]

wheel of time my beloved

[@ognjenmaksimovic1251]

Good news is it won't go corporate, bad news is that means we might never get an adaptation... But Mistborn was close to getting greenlit before the writers strike, so you never know

[@SupremeDP]

As long as Sanderson is around, I doubt it will become corporate. I have high hopes, but we'll see. Jordan sold his rights badly, something Brandon has not done.

[@pounc007]

Timothée Chalamet is not a 7' tall Asian who could kill everyone in a room.

[@Thinkagain1234]

Not with that attitude he isn’t!

[@petterrnning3213]

My personal dream is that the same studio that is doing Arcane would adapt stormlight archive.

[@davidsonderby3676]

Yes!

[@Klayht]

Hear me out, that same studio adapting Mistborn instead..

[@pedrocavalcante4939]

YES I had the same idea!

[@lol3xtrach3353]

@@Klayht mistborn is a lot more suited for live action tbh with its dreariness and less "magical", I think if they were going to do animation might as well go for the more "wacky fantasy" series in stormlight

[@sburbtube6766]

Brandon said something similiar, but also that animated series need to get more viewers for him to attempt it. He wants a live action series to reach a wider audience.

[@andrewgates5008]

I believe Brandon Sanderson has said on his podcast that he is skeptical of an animated adaptation of his works. He argues it isolates some of the potential viewer demographics, such as the more elderly, and he said he wouldn't want to do that because he remembered getting his mother to watch Lord of the Rings and she was obsessed with Gollem, even though she didn't much care for the larger fantastical elements, and had the LotR been an animated adaptation, all those individuals who found something they liked would never have given it a chance simple based on the fact it's animated. He also said, after the Amazon Wheel of Time adaptation, that he doesn't think 8, or even 10, episodes is sufficient to tell a story as long as Storm Light, so the season would have to be 12-14 episodes that are roughly an hour long per season.

[@davosseewert7023]

That's prabably true. But what if there were a high budget Mistborn era 1 liefe-action series and a Warbreaker movie before the Stormlight animation? They would advertise each other by connections, post-credit scenes and of course the same actor for Hoid. That would collect far more potential viewers, but also prevent that the Stormlight series is halfway cancelled or never made because it is too long or expensive. Also, the spren are something I only can imagine animated. And different adaptation styles would just fit to the diversity of the cosmere. And if there will ever be an adaptation, they probably would start with Mistborn anyway.

[@davincisama]

There's zero chance that such adaptation would not dissapoint.

[@patricksmith3131]

I feel like a good way to photograph the environment of Roshar would be aiming for a naturalistic, almost documentarian aesthetic. Handheld (not shaky) shots, and have the world look like a real place (meaning as much on location as humanly possible). Like. Picture a shallow focus shot of glowing spheres in a woven net, the water of a past highstorm dripping off of them. A group of windspren being filmed like a flock of birds that the cameraman is trying to follow. Also if it were me I’d want to shoot it on 35mm to give it a more textured look but that’d be expensive.

[@patricksmith3131]

Also in terms of episodic structure, you gotta do all of part one in a 90 minute pilot. Start with Szeth, end with Kaladin on the ledge. If you’re not 1000% locked in at that point then the show just won’t be for you lol

[@davidsonderby3676]

100% want the cosmere done by the same animators as Arcane. 100% 100%

[@Hølløwguy-f7q]

Bro, I said the same thing 😅

[@JC-qp8hj]

I think the only studio that could pull off a live action is the same studio that did James Cameron’s Avatar. There’s a reason he included clips from the movie, because it’s the only studio to effectively portray a truly alien world and have it be a massive success. That being said, I think SA in the style of Arcane would be incredible.

[@alexiavya722]

calling a Storm Light adaptation “the Next Game of Thrones” has a lot of issues. Storm Light is just a completely different beast. The enjoyment of the story is very different from the reasons why GoT fans like their content. The closest I can compare the difference is HotD to GoT. They are built by writers with different fundamentals. Storm Light can have a major cultural impact, but as soon as people start saying “it’s the next GoT” the show is going to take a big hit in the ratings. Hopefully, it balances out in the end. It’ll just take the audience a moment to filter its audience and expectations.

[@diepie5144]

I think one of the best things that WoT did was release shorts building the world and the lore. That would be a great use for the interludes, and imo the prologue for the series. Imagine that scene used as promo to hype up the series. A broken man walking across an alien battlefield, admitting that he cannot fight any longer. I think it would be one of the better scenes to adapt.

[@Cringleneck_Macforwardstare]

"warrior turned philosopher" Dave Bautista's acting career described with three words.

[@TheKartana]

The biggest problem with the spren is making them look not stupid. Also, finding some way of communicating the meaning of spren in a visual medium unlike the books where it always just tells you what spren a common spren is any time one appears.

[@scottbruckner4653]

Episode 1: The Shin In White. You take the prologues from the books and put them in one episode. Episode 2: Storm Blessed. You take Cynn's perspective and at the 30 minute mark you throw in the "8 months later." Episode 3: The Princesses Ward. (focus is on Shallan and Yalb, scooting around karbranth and annoying Jasnah for a Television Hour until She takes on Shallan as her ward at the end. Episode 4: Bridge 4. The Episode focuses on Kaladin meeting bridge 4 for the first time. The end of this episode has Kaladin's suicide attempt. Episode 5: The Hunt. the big chasm fiend hunt, along with the feast later that night with little peaks on kaladin and shallan around the 15 and 30 minute marks. Episode 6: From Slaves to Men. Kaladin and the boys harvesting the weeds and trying the sideways carry in battle. with cutaways to the investigation and Shallan and Jasnah talk to Navani and Dalinar over Spanreed. This Episode introduces Lopen. Episode 7: Storm Judged. The start of the episode starts with Kaladin being tied up and put out to die in the high storm. This episode will cut back and forth between Kaladin in the storm and Dalinar's visions ending on the Four dudes getting shmurdered in the alley and shallan stealing the thingamajig. Episode 8: The Philosophy of Stew Kaladin wakes the fuck up after weeks of being out of commission and deals with Teft bugging him about maybe being radiant, and the boys being put on chasm duty (and being given Shen). Shallan researches philosophy, and has her confrontation with Jasnah. Then Dalinar continues with his investigation with sadeas being named High prince of info meanwhile the episode ends with The Stew Scene. Episode 9: Simmer or Boil: Dalinar gets made high prince of war and spends the first 15 minutes in a montage of trying to wrangle the other high princes other than sadeas into an alliance. Kaladin finally breaks and teaches the boys how to fight. Episode 10: Like Old Times. You see Dalinar and Sadeas doing that little bit of bonding they do before, the fuckening at a duel of adolin's, along with more Nivani seduction. brief glimpse of Kaladin doing something in the chasms, then it cuts to the platau run where he wears the orange carapace armor and does some major fucking around. This is the Episode where Shallan has her suicide attempt, because she's looking at the Pattern Heads for the first time, and her brain is seeing it, but her eyes aren't. the episode ends with kaladin telling the boys to keep shen in camp as the rest of them climb down into the chasm. Episode 11: Betrayal. The episode starts off with Shallan, You know whats going to happen. (Fuck you Jasnah, you need to taste strawberry jam.) The other 45 minutes encompass 75% of the huge fucking sanderslanche. Episode 12: Trust. This episode starts with the final 15 minutes of the Sanderslanche that moves into "The Most Ridiculous Deal in all of Rosharan history." Then there's this big scene as bridge 4 is led exodus style to the promised land "Dalinars Camp" the episode ends with Shallan in white hospital linnens standing over jasnah as she sits at her desk and the final scene of the Season is Jasnah pulling shallan back to reality.

[@marcop-mb506]

Very good vision 👌I also think the length of the episodes should be around the 50min-1hr mark for suuure. Given the pacing maybe even having 15-20 instead of 12.

[@scottbruckner4653]

@@marcop-mb506 absolutely. 12 is normally good for television because the average season of thrones was 10, and those books were almost the same size as stormlight, Both will/did have a lot cut out, but there's enough really to stitch together a cohesive Narrative.

[@MikeStormblessed]

I think, in order to be vorin it self, should be a 10 episode Season. And every season should have an episode called like the book. Ex. The last episode of S1 should be named The Way Of Kings. The episode in S2 where Kaladin says the 3 ideal should be named Words Of Radiance. The 3rd need to be the longest 12 episodes maybe, because Oathbringer had a lot of plot. And the episodes called Oathbringer should be the Battle of the raft.

[@octavianmihu7861]

I think episode 12 also should have the "Dalinar kicks Elhokar to make him highprince of war and tells him that he's gonna be his stepdad" part, instead of it being episode 9.

[@SupremeDP]

Dave Bautista struck me as really weird at first, but the more I think about it the more it actually makes sense.

[@glueboy]

There are some scenes in Oathbringer he would kill. And kill me emotionally to experience again lmao

[@ryanryanryansmith]

Henry Cavill was already my face casting for Vasher while reading SLA and [redacted].

[@AClockworkWizard]

Vasher's never named as such in SLA and you redacted the one book he is in lol

[@ChummyShaman]

I was so mad at your fancast for a minute lol

[@wataehebro1543]

arcane animation style is the key, great oportunity to make amazing fantasy shots and keeping at the same time a serius tone with trong human emotions. Is the perfect style.

[@Warhawk198]

8:18 I never really imagined spheres to look like that but I suppose it would be very likely

[@e443productions9]

Genuine question. Why do we NEED to have a huge cultural impact if we can just make it for cheaper with animation and ensure it could continue even without an insane profit

[@aarondubourg3706]

So we can get a complete adaption or the rest of the Cosmere adapted. Sanderson talks about it somewhere, but basically he said it would be live action for strategic reasons. Animation would be for his fans, live action would be for "normie" crowd and attract more attention thus Hollywood less likely to cancel it or come away with the wrong message. Hollywood sees the numbers, they don't see the why.

[@e443productions9]

@@aarondubourg3706 but the problem with that is that you need it to be an absolutely phenomenal cultural impact in order to get the whole cosmere adapted. Since it’s for the normie crowd, the numbers need to be astronomically high to justify the higher budget and production times. With animation at least it’s cheaper and faster to produce so even if it’s not an astronomical success at least it might be able to turn out a profit for longer

[@seanmei6284]

@@aarondubourg3706Honestly I don’t think the Cosmere as a whole will have a huge culture impact. The realmatic theory would be too obscure for general and casual consumption

[@aarondubourg3706]

@@seanmei6284 idk about that. Realmatic theory is already a very common trope/ concept, just with a Cosmerr spin.

[@seanmei6284]

@@aarondubourg3706 There are a lot more concepts now, like Connection, Identity, Investiture, Invested Entity, Future Sight, etc. I feel it’s great to geek out about and comes out great on written words, but on screen I feel you’d either need an actual lecture to get through, or significantly dumb it down. It works well in separate worlds, but once you start worldhopping, it gets complicated fast

[@christianayers6943]

I don’t know why but through the entire way of kings book, in my mind Kaladin was played by Daniel Radcliffe

[@Amhiel]

I don't know exactly why but in my mind the Alethi people are always clearly Indian. After I saw Monkey Man I and the Green Knight, I would 100% endorse Dev Patel as Kaladin, I think he would kill it.

[@hehehe5664]

Kaladin is supposed to be tall and 19 years old in the way of kings. I like Dev Patel but he's too old(34) and not tall enough to be Kaladin. All of the main cast have to be played by brown people except for Shallan. I'm Indian and I would love to see an all brown main cast in a big fantasy show, but I don't think it would appeal to American audience. So if we ever get a live action adaptation I wouldn't be surprised if they cast white people as Alethi.

[@Silas_MN]

I think one of the biggest adaptation hurdles rears its head as soon as you glimpse past the first book: the parsh/listeners/singers becoming an active part of the plot. I'm not talking costumes, I'm referring to the single most important part of their culture and communication: the Rhythms speaking to rhythms, constant humming and singing to rhythms. adapting the rhythms to any kind of visual medium - either animated or live action - carries a *lot* of clarity and tonal issues. how do you have actors *speak* to rhythms in a way that doesn't come across as weird sing-song? the nuances of the different rhythms and what they represent is hugely important for a large swath of characters, but how do you show which rhythms are which without explicitly labelling them on screen? a stylized animation production can maybe just do that, but there's also the aspects of rhythm and tone that are described in the books that have no actual physical analog or are otherwise impossible to recreate one might say that these are flavor details that you can get away with simply not including in the show. that person would be incorrect. once you get far enough along in the series, you know how the world of roshar turns on tones and rhythms. to exclude them cripples key plot elements and strips the cultural identity of one of your most important groups, but to include them is a logistical and storytelling nightmare btw, your casting caused me physical pain, good job

[@ClayHales]

The spren would be expensive because every shot would have them. The only dream casting I have is Chow Yun-Fat as Dalinar. And maybe Michelle Yeoh as Navani.

[@disc0duck]

Dalinar as Dave Bautistia would be so fucking fantastic ya'll gotta watch that scene from bladerunner 2049

[@Domaik_]

They can only do it in an animated series and under Brandon's supervision. anything less will not be good enough, this series deserves excellency !

[@JC-qp8hj]

I think the studio that did James Cameron’s Avatar could do it justice visually. But I agree, Brandon has to have full creative control. I’m actually surprised someone in Hollywood hasn’t given Brandon a studio and a blank check to get it done because it would be like printing money.

[@flo1794]

if they want a new GoT they need to adapt the first law trilogy and it would be way easier and cheaper to adapt

[@plaecholder]

JAZZ-NUH

[@Mamoreno0215]

my favorite fancast i've seen is Dev Patel as Kaladin

[@nicodemogawronski2052]

Brandon, just start another Kickstarter. We got your back for a 15 episodes Tv series :D

[@Cronniq]

I disagree with the idea of only using one set for the war camps. In the books, Dalinars camp is said to be much more organized, and I’m pretty sure that Sebarial’s camp is laid out for more efficient commerce and trade.

[@octavianmihu7861]

Well yea, but in The Way of Kings we barely see any other warcamps than Sadeas' and Dalinar's, in WoR is where Sebarial's is introduced through Shallan chapters.

[@LibertyRimmer]

The the Shattered Plains should be a mix of Canyonland, Utah and the Volume screen

[@enlightmentxv1548]

I have always said, Analisse Basso would be a perfect fit for Shallan, she is relatively unknown, she is identical to Shallan, and can perfectly pull a slightly unhinged privileged girl that sees herself thrown out of her wealthy position

[@Kestrel990]

The area of the shattered plains is actually based on a real world location, you could go to southern utah

[@d.j.mulcahy1657]

Another fantasy series I've heard suggested for adaptation is Malazan. Though I haven't read it, there could be some potential there.

[@Azuro123-pj7xj]

I thought Rock acts Rock

[@daileydose6493]

I've talked extensively with my partner how adaptable stormlight is. Love and agree with everything you're saying. I think the hardest part of getting this adaptation to be good is getting someone that respects the source material take the reigns. There's been a handful of movies/show that give me hope. Dune is a big one. I would love to hear your thoughts on mistborn live action. To me, era 1 is impossible honestly, with era 2 being very hard but doable. Representing all the mental metals visually is a massive challenge.

[@LoneStarViking90]

It needs to be a high-end anime not a live action. It reads as an anime IMO and would be a perfect adaptation.

[@TRYCLOPS1]

It should be anime only. A live action would be too expensive and crippling for anyone attempting it. Just the settings will be difficult. Add to that the costumes, creatures, magic, technology, etc. A live action would require high budget for filming and high budget for CGI and effects. Anime will get it done by a responsible anime studio that gets the rightly deserved budget for it and right art direction, etc. Tho it would make it hard for Sanderson to have Production direction, as the best anime studios are Japanese lol.

[@Akwyndor]

HEAPS OF DOUGH (Also, Sanderson needs to be directly involved)

[@ibrahimagueye8256]

Great video ! thanks 🏩

[@cubic_regent]

fancasting the rock not as rock is a missed opportunity

[@that1oneguy770]

Henry cavil could reasonably play Zahel/*Spoiler* in my mind. but that's out of the scope of this video

[@csernobillahun]

Maybe Odium, the amount of white/shin looking characters in the books are low

[@Hølløwguy-f7q]

Make it an animation like arcane it would be so sick!!!

[@guitardude1019]

I always pictured Bollywood actors for the alethi as they would most closely resemble the in book description. Adolin could maybe be European due to his mixed heritage.

[@elliotstaveley682]

Aren’t the alethi Japanese inspired? Theylens I believe are basically Indian though.

[@guitardude1019]

@@elliotstaveley682 You might be right. I just always picture them as southern / south east Asian because of the darker skin tone

[@PrimalDirective]

From Brandon's own words I'd say more asiatic Eurasian with usually tan skin is what fits the Alethi(mongols and related such as kehjits, turkmen or uzbekz maybe), as well as maybe some Polynesian looks as well The further west you get the more european the people are, except maybe for the Rishii and Azish Herdazians seemed quasi hispanic to me, and the Thaylen people are described as close to the different ethnicities of india

[@pounc007]

Most of roshar doesn't have soil. I don't know how you could possibly film that

[@CarlosV3Dartist]

Did you watch the video, he said Visual effects or model work, probably a combination of the two

[@glueboy]

Live action is the way to go. Some of the action sequences would rule animated, but people are purely thinking of those action scenes. And lets be so for real. The Way of Kings has like... a handful of action sequences. Not enough compared to something like Arcane. We remember the big action set pieces but think back on how much of the series is just people talking. I would also love a series that would be taken seriously lol. I love animation but a lot of people look at animation and just fully ignore it. Citation: Every relative I have over the age of 30. Tbh, the hardest part I can see for a live action Stormlight adaptation isnt the Spren. I agree that really shouldn't be that hard. Or the landscape. Even more than referenced, I remember a video on his YT where he answered that he has already done some for fun location scouting in Utah for the Shattered Plains. I honestly think its the shardblades. A majority of them are these hulking 6 foot tall swords that weigh nothing. (fun fact, the inspo for that is Sanderson seeing big dumb anime/fantasy swords and trying to find a worldbuilding justification to make them functional weapons.) I think an honest challenge would be to give Dalinar, or Adolin their shardblade and have them fight in a way that doesnt look absolutely goofy af. Thats the one advantage to animation. You just dont have that issue in that format. For a real human though? Gotta deal with the fact giving a giant dumb prop sword is gonna look like a giant dumb prop sword unless a lot of hard work is done.

[@TheBookgeek7]

Dwain Johnson as Dalinar, and Ryan Reinolds as Wit are pretty good tho...

[@althesilly]

Dwayne The Rock Johnson, as Rock Duh

[@cubic_regent]

remember most of roshar doesnt have grass

[@Girentina242]

The virgin Stormlight live-action series vs the chad Stormlight animated series in the same style as TLoVM and Korra. A man can dream if he's huffing military grade copium... 😩

[@Tephr1te]

we need need the space jam-esque crossover from animated stormlight archive and live action mistborn adaptations

[@TNT925]

I haven’t given much thought to starlight casting (other than dalinar should be the big name actor with mostly unknowns everywhere else.) I do think Henry cavil would be perfect for kelsier. Spoilers ahead: And knowing that Kel has presence in stormlight and the future of the cosmere, it will let him stay close to the series for a long time.

[@janvancura8412]

When it comes to casting, except in specific circumstances (Szeth, Wit, Ishar, etc) don't use white actors.

[@AlexanderTheMedium]

Veden are described as white.

[@FrancT-]

Don't worry about that, Hollywood doesn't even cast white actors in European medieval themed shows lol.

[@Cringleneck_Macforwardstare]

Animation is a big cop out for this stuff. It's like the entertainment equivalent of asking a rhetorical question.

[@mtverv]

The two biggest issues that people are going to have are budget and casting. You pulled the Spren bit from the same conversation about budget that they were having on the same stream so I’m shocked you didn’t include it but Brandon said that the budgets he was being offered at the time made him perfectly content that the Roshar he envisioned could be brought to Live Action. That’s issue one. Issue two would be casting. Well not so much the casting in and of itself so much as the reaction of people one way or another. There are two different ways to cast this and both will get a negative reaction. You could cast the way you SHOULD cast which is cast based on Merit. The best Actor for the role and who embodies the character the best gets the job, period, full stop. This would ensure the quality of the show and would satisfy the portion of the fan base who will actually watch the show, thus making money for whatever network/service it’s on and having a better chance to keep going into the later Stormlight books but you would get the Woke Mob, who’s proven they won’t support things even when they bitch and moan about them, all in a tizzy. The second way you could cast, which seems to be the most prevalent these days, would be to cast in a way to pander to the Woke Mob. This is the easiest way to alienate the fan base who would keep the project alive and is thus NOT what should happen. Knowing the way Hollywood has been working lately and that it isn’t going to change anytime soon Brandon would be better off holding out until Hollywood gives him an ironclad contract giving him full final say on absolutely everything or until he makes enough money that he can produce it on his own… Edit- as far as Fan Casting goes the only thing I care about is that the Major Stormlight characters be unknowns. Characters that make appearances in multiple Series like Hoid can be big stars but I want the characters where this is their Main Story in the Cosmere to be unknown Actors…

[@AClockworkWizard]

It's funny how you people go berserk when "the Woke Mob" dares change something about a character's appearance in an adaptation, but if the character's are already described as non-European then changing them is just "casting based on merit".

[@mtverv]

@@AClockworkWizard you took the wrong thing away from that particular section of the post. Merit means merit. For example if the Actor who read best for Dalinar is Idris Elba and the Actor who read best for Adolin was Luke Grimes then cast Elba and Grimes. Race had nothing to do with it, which is the real point. Also don’t put the Woke Mob in quotes lol that insults people’s intelligence…

[@zyrain]

A few thoughts here. First, the VFX cost is still prohibitive according to traditional techniques. However, there's an emerging new VFX method based on AI that could make it possible. This would involve training AI models to create the environment, spren, etc for Roshar then compositing them, instead of linear cost per minute. This does likely mean Volume-like production. Second, it seems Brandon is willing to compromise on structure to a large degree, which means the story could be released in a different order than presented in the books. What if the first six episodes were JUST Kaladin's story from slave pen to saving Dalinar? "Season 2" could then be just Shallan and Jasnah from Kanbranth to "boots". These installments would be cheaper and could even be produced in parallel. Season 3 would be Eshonai and Venli ending with Szeth. Keeping sets, actors, and such contained will drastically keep costs down, especially upfront costs. One final concession on Spren is that in the books it's very unclear how much spren can be seen. If license is taken to make it exceptional instead of commonplace, then a lot of cost could be saved. Even Sly could be mostly narrative voiceover for nearly all of season 1.

[@mateuszgilowski8203]

Do teh same thing with second book please

[@Escendrix]

Who will have the honor to play Stick?

[@bentupolo]

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is my pick for Dalinar.

[@wyvernscale9634]

I am going to be honest, I literally could care less how popular or massive a Stormlight show gets, I want it to be animated. A 2d animated show would be so much better looking, and would be able to actuallly show all the things that make roshar unique! And with how unique the locations of Roshar are (the shattered plains, Urithiru, Alethkar, literally anywhere with plants, not to mention SPREN), the cgi needed for a live action show would be insane and, frankly, look terrible compared to a 2d animated version. Storms, I think a live action show would be one of the worst possible decisions for the show behind making the Blackthorn a good person.

[@upforanything5214]

You animate it

[@maxxhuevoduro833]

IMO Cavil could be a pretty good Amaram

[@sergiomaldonadodelgado2944]

Dwaine The Rock Johnson as Rock ffs.

[@kalaldin9154]

Dave Bautista as Dalinar

[@jaimelannister1797]

Nah I’d rather have mostly unknown actors for the show

[@user-my3qz6bh5p]

shit idea

[@MetalCharlo]

Batista is slim now

[@zcartre83]

I mean absolutely no hate for this... but you are clearly not an audio book listener 😆

[@marcop-mb506]

Due to the pronunciation? I got that as well haha. Adolin stood out the most

[@patricksmith3131]

Cavill could make a good Kelsier…

[@user-my3qz6bh5p]

Bautista as dalinar has to be ragebait right?

[@Calzour]

It is pronounced “Yahs-nah” not “Jags-nah”

[@Cringleneck_Macforwardstare]

Live action atw.

[@tornaclconor5149]

I would love Henry Cavill as Dalinar. I don't think they need to always be Asian

[@skullknight4579]

i always envision Harrison Ford as dalanar

[@Asidchild]

No

[@isuckatchess1129]

Too bad you don’t know how to pronounce most of the names of the characters in the Stormlight Archive. Henry Cavill could be ZA’EL

[@JoeySocko]

The way things are now you mifht see Kevin heart as dalinar even thought the alethi pwople don't look like that. If mr sanderson wants an adaption done he must abide by the DEI polices of Hollywood, Lift will become a strong 20 something lesbian African American birthing person who needs no man. It's all so sad. I think an animation would be better but just like that new LoTR rohiirm show it would just be girl boss this girl boss that. Let just care about all the women.

[@coolzeke101]

11:47 Dwayne the rock as….. here me out…. Rock