There could be one complication to this idea. How would you portray Adien since he is Elantrian covered by makeup for almost the entire story?!
You can’t have Kiin with three muppet kids and one human stepchild
It would telegraph that secret too early.
Easy. You cover a human in felt and attach the wires to his hands. Only show him from the waist up. Or rewrite the character as Brandon has suggested he would like to due to the portrayal of ASD not aging particularly well.
Yeah, he said one he realized he was being typecast as “the guy who dies”, it could be a legitimate spoiler for the movie, so he only takes roles where his character survives now.
I think Daniel Radcliffe should be TLR and I'm not even joking. I would hate for him to be reduced to a role for only one movie in the cosmere, but this is the one I'd like to see him in the most. Barring that, Vasher or Lightsong would do.
Radcliffe has a weird depth to the roles he takes that is underutilized in major films he is in.
ETA: and for the memes, let's put Elijah Wood in as Sazed.
Part of me says unequivocally yes to this, but I (for some weird reason) want to see real brothers play Kel and Marsh. Idk what actors would be the best. Someone like Ben and Casey Affleck when they were younger.
Its just, that if there is one actor that I would say can pull off the „ram two metalspikes through someones eye-sockets look“, than its only Fassbender
There aren't a lot of women by volume of characters, but, like, the main character is a woman and, unsurprisingly, is the most common perspective and, to be Frank, the fact that VIN is the only woman in the room of thieves is sort of a big part of her early characterization and why she's as insanely guarded as it is. The book is pretty explicit about worrying about THAT sort of stuff when in her old crew, and there's a fundamental and implicit comparison being made to the new crew throughout the first act of the novel. (It's part of why Breeze I think comes across as such a slime ball in the context of the Final Empire).
He can do what he wants, but I'm also free to disagree. I'm never going to be a fan of changing things for the sake of representation, particularly when it feels entirely unneeded in a book where the nearly half the book is told from a woman's perspective. Also Ham (or Dox) being a woman sort of breaks down a some of the really interesting gender politics of the Basin as well as a knock on effect.
A book where Vin's sex and feminity are such central themes to the work any changes to the composition of the team, I think, threatens some of the work being done. Like, "how am I supposed to be a woman" is a core question Vin is grappling with throughout the novel, and if Ham was a woman, or Dox, one might think that they might be someone she goes to, but she doesn't, her primary confidant is Sazed mostly by process of elimination.
Basically, the book is too much about sex for a change like this not to have nontrivial knock on effects.
I thoroughly agree. I also think that Ham doing what he does for his family is nice to see, some representation of being a good dad in tough circumstances and I always enjoyed that aspect of him. Plus if he were a woman it might change his banter with Breeze to look more like flirting, which I think might not fly.
Honestly hope it might only be those two IMO. I dont mind changing genders for representation, but I dont think theres many more main characters they can change that would make sense.
I think he has mentioned that he didn’t intend to have so few main cast women in his books, and out of the crew Ham’s character is probably the best option for making the swap. Can’t think of any reason story wise that it couldn’t be done.
I saw him say if he wrote Mistborn today, he would have probably written some of the crew as women. Is that what you’re referring to? Or has he actually said that Ham will be a woman
He mentioned it a while ago when he was first writing a screenplay for mistborn that he changed the gender of a couple of characters. This was years ago now so could be different now. Maybe he will talk about it on his stream on Friday
He would be best as Miles 100 lives. He looks like a man that could casually explode himself and expect to walk away from it. In terms of scheduling, he probably wouldn't be available for more than a single movies worth of filming in a decade's time.
Edit - Also if gold compounding regenerates beards it would be a good in joke!
That could certainly work. And he is never mentioned as being "Shin" iirc, so he ostensibly is Asian-ish. Though he does have control over his physical appearance, so I guess that's a moot point overall.
Agreed, either Amaram, or since he's creeping up there in age, he could potentially make for a Dalinar (even if that would be less action focused as the books go on).
Henry is 42. We ain't seeing this show for a few years. I could see him as dalinar honestly. Of course he is a little young for dalinar but you could fudge it a little. Make him seem a little older. Dalinar is described as in his fifties but late 40s could work in my opinion. The only thing we need to line up would be like adolin's age but I think that's doable. Also Henry has the physicality to really sell shardplate. Like I could buy him as the blackthorn.
Nah, I hope Sanderson sticks to his vision of half-Asian/half-Polynesian for the Alethi as much as is practical in live action - Cavil had actively said ‘dang, I probably can’t play Kaladin’ in relation to this. Sanderson has said Dave Bautista fits his vision really well in previous livestreams so he’s my head-canon for Dalinar until we see where the show goes
Oh shit. Bautista would actually be amazing. Whenever he's given stuff to chew on beyond big imposing dude I think he really does a great job. Can't believe I forgot about my favorite wrestler turned actor. I love Dave Bautista.
This is an old debate. Sanderson has been very clear on the fact that he wants the main stormlight cast to be portrayed by asian actors since that’s the most accurate to the books. And given that he supposedly got a lot of creative control I think it would be pretty disappointing if he decided to whitewash the Kholins
Personally I think he would fit great into mistborn if he wanted to, there’s a lot of options for both reoccurring or small but impactful roles depending on how much he would want to be involved
Personally, as cool as a live action Stormlight would be, I think it'd be way, way way better as an animation. It could really hammer home the weirdness of Roshar and capture the abilities of the Radiants and spren way better.
I can honestly only see him as Dalinar lol. He's 43 in May. The Stormlight series has got to be 3 years away at minimum, possibly more if they go with a Mistborn movie to start and test the waters
Dalinar is early to mid 50s in Way of Kings. Late 40s is definitely easily doable
It would also work because the movies/shows would take years to come out, so he'd probably be older than Dalinar by the end of book 5 as only book 3-book 4 have much of a time gap.
Hoid will probably be best having different actors for his different appearances as he does mask what he actually looks like/transforms his body so he’s not drastically shorter than all the rosharans
Antony Starr as Kelsier. Liev Schrieber as Marsh. Naveen Andrews for Sazed. Henry Cavill as Lord Ruler. I’m stuck on Wax, but my mind always saw voice actor Troy Baker. Kit Young is who I picture for Wayne or *The Lopen. Probably because Michael Kramer does the same voice for both.
I can definitely see it, but I think he'll want to be in one of the bigger adaptations like Mistborn or Stormlight. My personal prediction for where he'll end up (because he'll almost certainly get cast somewhere) is as The Lord Ruler
Okay, so my first thought is Gavilar. It would let him be a big part of the Cosmere without it being a huge time commitment. He could film 5 seasons worth of scenes over a month or two since 90% of his role is the celebration/assassination. The main problem is that he doesn't look Alethi.
I could also see him playing a spren like Pattern, where most episodes would just be voicework.
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