‘Greatest fantasy series of all time is finally | UK News

A highly successful modern fantasy series is finally being adapted for both film and television.

Featuring 12 incredible novels with more to come, Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe has turn into one of the most bestselling sagas of the twenty first Century, with more than 50 million copies of the writer’s work bought.

It has now been confirmed Apple TV has secured the rights to Sanderson’s Mistborn and The Stormlight Archives series, following a fierce Hollywood bidding battle.

Set in a sprawling universe once ruled over by a highly effective entity, the novels happen after the being has been destroyed and cut up into 16 shards of divine vitality, which affect occasions on a number of planets.

The series has captured the imaginations of numerous followers with its advanced world-building and magic systems, as properly as its beloved characters, who expertise revolution, romance and discovery.

The Hollywood Reporter describes Apple TV’s deal as “unprecedented” as the streamer has landed exclusive rights to carry the saga to screens.

Mistborn will reportedly be tailored into a series of movies, while The Stormlight Archives shall be a tv series.

The Stormlight Archives reportedly has producers hooked up already and it’s understood that writer Sanderson can have a uncommon stage of inventive control over the diversifications.

He’ll not only produce the series, but is also on board as screenwriter and advisor to a degree that not even Harry Potter’s JK Rowling or Game of Thrones’ George RR Martin have reached.

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Mistborn’s first trilogy of books comply with a group of magicians who can bend metallic to their will and band together to overthrow an authoritarian regime. Meanwhile, The Stormlight Archives begins on another world populated by magic knights and monsters which is ravaged by supernatural storms.

Sanderson has obtained rave reviews from readers since Mistborn and The Stormlight Archives started in 2006 and 2010, respectively.

One rave review of Mistborn’s first ebook, The Final Empire, says: “This book takes every fantasy trope you’ve ever read and complicates and twists and renews every. Single. One.

“Fans of Game of Thrones, the Hunger Games, Tolkien etc etc etc should really read this book tbh!!!!”

A Reddit consumer described Mistborn as the “best fantasy I have ever read”, calling the sense of scale in the first three books “breathtaking”.

While another fan described the first Stormlight Archives ebook, The Way of Kings, as “Brandon Sanderson’s ‘love letter to the epic fantasy genre’. His magnum opus.

“From my perspective,” they went on, “he had lovingly and painstakingly crafted a masterpiece that was not just his greatest but one of the greatest of all time.”

And a last fan called it the “greatest epic fantasy series of our generation, if not of all time”. Will you be trying out Sanderson’s novels forward of the extremely anticipated live-action diversifications?

Mistborn and The Stormlight Archives don’t presently have release dates.