brandon sanderson mistborn the final empire

Geary has been partnered with Micai since their graduation from the University of Central Florida’s Film Program in 1999, with the two working in the live stage, music videos, commercial productions and other areas, and it was Geary who was the driving force behind the Mistborn option. Bryant has a strong background in commercial projects via DNP Studios for companies such as Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Lockheed Martin and Nickelodeon. Micai is a co-producer of the forthcoming Letters to God, a Possibility Pictures release through Vivendi-Universal. The principals in Paloppa Pictures LLC are Christopher Geary, Rob Micai and Marc Bryant. Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy was simultaneously released as a boxed set and became one of the top-selling boxed sets in the country according to Nielsen Bookscan. Subsequently, Sanderson co-wrote, with Robert Jordan, The Gathering Storm, which in November 2009 dethroned Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol to become #1 on the NY Times hardcover fiction list and every other major bestseller list. With each book building in success on the one before, The Hero of Ages debuted at #21 on the NY Times Hardcover Fiction bestseller list. The trilogy commenced with publication of Mistborn: The Final Empire in 2006, followed by The Well of Ascension in 2007, and The Hero of Ages in Fall 2008. Sanderson is the most successful new fantasy writer of the past decade, and the Mistborn series, published by Tor Books, is his most successful to date. Paloppa Pictures LLC and Brandon Sanderson are pleased to announce that Paloppa has taken an option on film rights to Sanderson’s NY Times bestselling Mistborn fantasy trilogy. I am very much behind them and very eager to see what Paloppa will bring to the Mistborn franchise in the future.īrandon Sanderson: Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky Literary Agency, 71

So in the end I said yes.Ĭhris and his partners at Paloppa haven’t been in the spotlight much at this point, but I think I would rather have someone who loves the series working on it as opposed to some faceless Hollywood company. Throughout the entire process they’ve been professional and sincere and have shown a real love of the material. When I read Paloppa’s script treatment for the beginning of the story I immediately felt that they truly understood the book and how to adapt it.

But then Chris showed how incredibly serious they were–when I was in New York he flew there to meet me and explained his really great and exciting plans for the movie adaptation. When Chris Geary emailed me about making a Mistborn movie, I really thought nothing of it–I just assumed it was another nibble that would go nowhere.

When it comes to optioning my adult fantasy novels for the big screen, I’ve occasionally gotten nibbles from random people in Hollywood. I’m holding off on my regular Monday update until tomorrow in order to talk about the Mistborn movie deal press release that went out today and has popped up on a few genre news sites.

Brandon sanderson mistborn the final empire