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Local Authors => Brandon Sanderson => Topic started by: Natalie Perkins on May 28, 2008, 03:46:39 AM
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So, I didn't see a thread for this, but if there was, please don't attack me.
Yes, I have been offered a movie deal
FIRST OFF: Yay, that's awesome.
No, it probably isn't for the series you're thinking about.
Ok, so I was thinking Mistborn.
WoT converters are probably thinking WoT
Newcomers who only read Elantris are probably thinking Elantris.
So if you eliminate all the ones I assume people are thinking about, that leaves:
Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians
Warbreaker
Dragonsteel (The Liar of Partinel perhaps?)
Scribbler
OR One of Brandon's other finished/unfinished/unpublished books: (Full list here: http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=5165.msg111110)
Thoughts?
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My guess is Alcatraz. Most all of the others require a completely different world, and Alcatraz is set in the US. That makes it the easiest to make, and it's a comedy that I think would translate well to film.
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The interesting thing about this was more-or-less a done deal almost 10 months ago but it took that amount of time to finalize things and come to an agreement. I was actually surprised that contracts were only recently sent out from how I was originally told about it back in September-October (can't remember the exact month).
As to what the deal is--well that's something that is for Brandon to tell, because it is cool, and not for me to take away from him.
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Cool, this is what I get for not checking the blog regularly.
Alcatraz makes sense because the youth fantasy market in movies as well as books has been riding high for a while. Studios are probably groping hopefully for the next financial success on the order of Harry Potter or Narnia.
WoT wouldn't make sense because:
-iirc, various big and small screen rights to that series are held by people who're doing nothing with them.
-If a movie deal was being made, it probably would not involve EUOL so directly; it would go through Robert Jordan's estate.
Mistborn was probably what he thought everyone would think of.
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WoT wouldn't make sense because:
-iirc, various big and small screen rights to that series are held by people who're doing nothing with them.
-If a movie deal was being made, it probably would not involve EUOL so directly; it would go through Robert Jordan's estate.
Also, it wouldn't have been in the works since last Sept/Oct, as Sprig just told us. Pretty sure we can eliminate WoT.
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Wow, this is waaaay too cool.
I can't wait for more details. Alcatraz rocks... even though he isn't a nice person. ;D
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So he is for sure going through with the deal? The last I heard he was going out to California to go over the details, and wasn't possitive on anything. If he is, that's going to be way cool. I hope they do it live action... animation wouldn't be the greatest.
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Off of some random blog that came up on google of "Brandon Sanderson movie deal":
http://www.michaelcrane.net/tmo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=493&Itemid=1
Quote:
Other things of note (of various interest):
* There is a potential movie deal in the works (Mistborn), but he couldn't say anything about it.
Don't know if this is just some random guy, or an official interviewer (I would guess the former, but he is pretty straight-forward about saying it...) Anyhow, it's a connection that I found. The only one actually. So, take it for what it's worth.
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Hmmm, interesting.
Honestly, I hope it's not Mistborn. I don't think Hollywood is capable of making a good movie out of it. It's just too cool like it is.
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It's not mistborn. First off, he says it's not the series people would think of, and since that's his most famous series, that's the one that people would think of first. I'm wondering if they saw the april fools joke, and connected it to the announcement.
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How AWESOME!! Where do I sign up to be an extra? ;)
I would LOVE to see MISTBORN on the big screen. Yet, alas, I think this is the series most people would expect, and therefore not be the right one in light of Brandon's comment. (sigh)
ALCATRAZ may seem a bit of a stretch since only the first novel has come out, and there are, what, six more? That's a big commitment too, when it comes down to it. Unless they just do the option for one movie. Besides, this YA series hasn't built such a huge fan base as HP. Not that it couldn't, of course...
And who's to say that the contract isn't for a stand-alone like ELANTRIS or WARBREAKER? After all, Brandon says he was offered a "movie deal" and that "this doesn't mean that the movie is sure to get made." Note the singular "deal" and "movie" yet I could be reading too much into the grammar. So I think the likelihood is high that this project is for a solitary movie not a series--esp. since Brandon says it's not for the series we're thinking of.
I say, if it can't be MISTBORN, I'd definitely like to see ELANTRIS.
Honestly, I don't remember how long it took for the WoT deal to be set up. So the movie deal could've come in after that time. BUT, it seems to me that, despite the popularity of WoT, it would be really tough to get Hollywood to commit to over ten movies. Unless the scripts combined several novels at once. And wouldn't that get all the WoT fans really, really riled up?
As for DRAGONSTEEL, I admit that could be possible, though the market hasn't even been tested for those novels. One would think that it would be more profitable all the way around to offer an option on a book that's already been published. Then the book and movie would build off of each other nicely. Just like all the other well-done book-film pairings.
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I think that it is Alcatraz, because it would be very easily adapted to a screenplay. Screenplays are usually fairly short, and as EUOL's shortest published work, Alcatraz would lose the least in translation to the big screen. Plus you don't have to cast anyone that is well known, so movie production costs would be tons lower.
It could also be Elantris. I see it as very easily done due to its focus on characters, and a virtual lack of needed special effects (unlike MB). The only FX needed are when they show how Elantris was, when Raoden practices the Aons, and the Seons.
I would love to see all of the books made into movies as long as they are done right. MB would be the hardest to do right IMHO. Warbreaker would be pretty cool as a movie.
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I know the answer, but I don't know if I should say. This is so frustrating!
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I sincerely hope that the guy WriterDan quoted was misled by our April Fool's joke. That would be too awesome for words.
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I know the answer, but I don't know if I should say. This is so frustrating!
That's easy: you shouldn't. Legally a bad idea to say anything. Besides, I don't think Brandon would be happy if you spilled the beans prematurely.
But what I wanna know is *how* you know this!! Do you have a reliable crystal ball or something? If so, could I rent it for a while?
Speaking of predictions, I wouldn't mind having a few Fell points to look forward to for picking the right book. ;) I think I'll stick by ELANTRIS since I'm fairly sure that MISTBORN has to be ruled out (sadly). My second guess would be ALCATRAZ. Yep.
I'm so curious to know for sure, dang it!! I was telling my family last night and we were discussing which book would be most likely.
On a related note, I just bought ALCATRAZ for my fifteen-year-old cousin--been meaning to for a while. We read a few chs together and she was suitably eager to read more. :)
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While Elantris would be cool... I just don't see it being made into a good movie. So many of the parts I enjoyed the best involved internal thoughts and emotions, which are difficult to show on film. Hopefully, if this is the answer, I will be very pleasantly surprised.
I've never read Alcatraz yet... I'm still to even find it in any local bookstore.
WOT doesn't make sense simply because there is no way to ever put the entire series, even condensed, into a film format. It took LoTR 7 years to put out just the three movies, and that was working 60+ hour work-weeks the entire time. It seems like this would be more likely to be picked up by the SciFi channel and turned into a 10 episode mini-series, kinda like NBC did with The 10th Kingdom.
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I know the answer, but I don't know if I should say. This is so frustrating!
I'm the same way, and I just figured if he wanted us to say for sure he would have stated the answer in his blog. Were you at the signing when he said what/who's doing it?
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I sincerely hope that the guy WriterDan quoted was misled by our April Fool's joke. That would be too awesome for words.
NA that post is from last december.
There was a producer reading mistborn, his son was a fan, but I don't think much else happened with it.
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Brandon confirmed that it was the story Centrifugal.
http://brandonsanderson.com/blog/635/International-Pixel-Stained-Technopeasant-Day
Spriggan just didn't want to come out and say it, but we are all really excited to see his "first" story come to Hollywood.
I thought everyone knew this...
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Hmm. I don't see anything in that post where he says this story was being considered for a movie deal. So for me it doesn't really "confirm" anything. ???
After chatting w/ the savvy Nessa, though, I've changed my mind. I'm betting that ALCATRAZ is the book under consideration for the Hollywood deal, not ELANTRIS. I'm itching to find out, one way or another.
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I just got done having lunch with Brandon, and he was telling me about his studio tour yesterday and how great the Centrifugal storyboards looked. They've really done a lot to improve the story during the adaptation process!
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Ookla, please, which story ? Alcatraz or Elantris ?
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I just got done having lunch with Brandon, and he was telling me about his studio tour yesterday and how great the Centrifugal storyboards looked. They've really done a lot to improve the story during the adaptation process!
Hmm. So does this mean that the movie deal is for the Centrifugal story then?? Wow, didn't see that one coming, despite Not Bookstore Guy's link. I mean, that blog didn't mention anything about a movie deal. Also, I wouldn't have guessed that the piece in question was a short story rather than a novel. Verrrry interesting.
I just started reading WARBREAKER 4.2 and I think I'll take a time out to read Centrifugal. :D
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So if the paperwork is all signed soon are we looking at a late 2009/early2010 release?
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It's not greenlit yet, so there can't be any release date for some time. And I doubt this movie would be made very quickly anyway.
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Ah, I know what book it is, too! I was waiting to hear whether or not the deal would go through. Lets hope all goes well! I'll keep my mouth shut too, and let Brandon have his fun in revealing that info.
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I shall keep a weather eye on this thread and EUOL's blog, that's all I can say.
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I would have guessed Scribbler (http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=5585.msg116415#msg116415). Out of all his books, that's the one that I think translates best to the big screen.
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I just got done having lunch with Brandon, and he was telling me about his studio tour yesterday and how great the Centrifugal storyboards looked. They've really done a lot to improve the story during the adaptation process!
Hmm. So does this mean that the movie deal is for the Centrifugal story then?? Wow, didn't see that one coming, despite Not Bookstore Guy's link. I mean, that blog didn't mention anything about a movie deal. Also, I wouldn't have guessed that the piece in question was a short story rather than a novel. Verrrry interesting.
I just started reading WARBREAKER 4.2 and I think I'll take a time out to read Centrifugal. :D
Remember, short stories are much easier to translate into film. It is much easier to distill down to 1 central idea. Brandon was really excited to go down there (Hollywood) and see what kind of ideas they had for the adaptation of Centrifugal, but I'm glad he met with Ookla and that he was pleased with the initial ideas.
Ookla - did he say whether they had decided on live action for it or not?
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He did say, but it's not up to me to reveal such sensitive material.
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Good call Ookla - I got a bit ahead of myself. We'll let Brandon reveal all the "cool" details on Centrifugal when he gets on here.
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Well, considering Brandon said, "No, it probably isn't for the series you're thinking about," (emphasis added) I'm guessing it's one of his series and not a standalone. More than likely, it is one that has been published (I would guess), which leaves prominently Mistborn or Alcatraz. My first inclination was to guess Alcatraz. I think that it would be great on screen and if it did well, there are more books coming out that could also be made into a film. I think it would be hard to fit Mistborn into one movie, and I don't think it would reach as wide of an audience as Alcatraz would. But that's just speculation.
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I disagree with it being a series. I think Brandon thought everyone would think of mistborn, so said that it wasn't that series. Besides, we do already have confirmation that it's centrifugal.
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You say that it is confirmed to be Centrifugal, care to say where?? I looked at EUOL's post when he was talking about it and didn't see anything of the sort.
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I think he's talking about someone's post on here that started the whole comment about it being Centrifugal.
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Well iirc ookla and fellfrosch are some of Sanderson's alpha readers; i believe they know him in person. This would explain why they know what they do.
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This has probably gone too far. I was talking to my sister (Pink Bunkadoo) on the phone yesterday, and even she had taken the comment at face value.
No, it's not Centrifugal, but I enjoyed Steve's joke quite a bit and played along. When I mentioned it to Brandon on Saturday, he thought it was pretty funny too and said something like, "Steve, Steve, Steve..." (He's been reading the forum less recently, because he's too tempted to respond to so many threads, and once the author has given a definitive answer, where's the fun in that?) Anyway he says he'll be able to reveal the Hollywood details later this week, so speculate away.
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<wicked laughter> I had far too much fun with this for it to be healthy. Ookla, you were brilliant with your comments! But yes, it's time to not be so delightfully wicked. The comments about Centrifugal by Ookla and myself were just a joke - but a good one at that! </wicked laughter>
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And really, you guys, you ought to notice when I post first that I'm confused, then a few hours later my post is mysteriously edited to say that it's been confirmed. I know some of you did read it when it was unedited too...But I fell for it completely, I'll admit, until Ookla pmed me. Then I laughed for a few minutes and edited my post.
For speculative purposes, I think that Elantris or Alcatraz is the most likely, and for some reason I tend to lean toward Elantris.
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i was wondering why Hollywood would pick up a short story written ten years ago back when the author was still in high school and (to my knowledge) only released to the public like 2 monthes ago.
And if he says its not the series we would expect dont we all expect that its not going to be mistborn so it might actually be the one we hope for but dont expect. . . that made more sense in my head.(translation=it might be mistborn)
Anyways whatever book it is i hope he gets to help the movie and have some control over it so it doesnt turn into another Eragon.
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I still maintain that Scribbler translates best to the big screen, although I kind of hope that isn't the one they've selected. Hollywood has a habit of destroying books, but in this case maybe that's not a bad thing since it hasn't been published yet.
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>:( ;D >:( ;D >:( ;D >:( ;D
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Ookla, you were brilliant with your comments!
It didn't take too much thought to just write the truth and replace the actual title with Centrifugal. The best lies are mostly true. :)
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If this is something that has been in the works for that long, then I think I know which series it is. Brandon mentioned something similar briefly at a signing in Denver.
If that's the case, I hope it does go through, as I think it will translate great to the world of cinema.
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Anyways whatever book it is i hope he gets to help the movie and have some control over it so it doesnt turn into another Eragon.
I would flip out if it turned into another Eragon. They totally destroyed that book. (and that series is somewhere in my Top 20)
And I like most of Brandon's books more than Eragon, so if it's not done well... then, someone will be missing a few of their vital organs, to name the least graphic of the various punishments I've thought up
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Well now it is finally confirmed, but I won't spoil the surprise. You will just have to read EUOL's blog to find out. It will be an awesome animated feature tho.
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It would have to be a book I haven't read. Looks like I am going to have to pick it up and pretend I bought it for my niece or something.
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It would have to be a book I haven't read. Looks like I am going to have to pick it up and pretend I bought it for my niece or something.
Why? It's so wicked funny you can say you bought it for yourself, and if anyone says anything about it, let them read it. They'll change they're minds.
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Hooray! This is VERY exciting. Plus Well of Ascension comes out in paperback today. so it's already looking to be an excellent day!
Not sure how the whole animation thing is going to work out, but it could be very cool.
VegasDev: definitely read it. Kids will definitely enjoy it, but I actually think I can enjoy more because I'm older. I'll never again be able to say the word "rutabega" without laughing. ;D
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*dances* I was right! I'll be very excited if a movie actually starts production.
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And I just wanna be in it. In some way...
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And I just wanna be in it. In some way...
Wouldn't that look out of place tho? You know, a live person in an animated movie.
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Wouldn't that look out of place tho? You know, a live person in an animated movie.
Wait, are you suggesting killing Qarlin? ;)
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Shhhh! We don't want our evil plan discovered!
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Shhhh! We don't want our evil plan discovered!
Oh, gotcha. I just wanted to make sure I was understanding things correctly. Carry on.
This hidden message is for Qarlin. I would like to propose an alliance to turn the tables on HofA and Andrew the Great. With them out of the way, I can continue with my master plan. Details coming at a later date.
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This hidden message is for Qarlin. I would like to propose an alliance to turn the tables on HofA and Andrew the Great. With them out of the way, I can continue with my master plan. Details coming at a later date.
If one wishes to keep things secret, one might want to match the color of the background, rather than assume that white text will be hidden. ;)
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If one wishes to keep things secret, one might want to match the color of the background, rather than assume that white text will be hidden. ;)
Well, if it were really a secret, it would have been in a PM rather than on a message board. :) I suspect intentional propaganda.
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I didn't type that; Ruin must have altered my post to make me look bad or some other dasterdly purpose. ;D
Not really, it was me, but that should throw people off so they won't be looking for the white text here. So what do you think Qarlin, you game? :bigevilgrin:
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Therefore HoA and Andrew are Preservation in disguise!!! i knew it!!
Teh heh heh! Bob saggit there is no gray
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Just out of curiosity, do all these assassination and counter-assassination plots involve time-traveling Mistborn?
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If I told you that, I'd have to kill you
Anyway, HoA, we'll now have to include VegasDev in our evil plot. Looks like we'll have to find some more atium to pay our assassin.
And writing unhidden hidden messages is strangely amusing. ;D
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Speaking of atium payments (not that anyone was, visibly), does anyone have a theory on why kandra contracts are paid in atium? They can't use Allomancy. Is it simply a form of currency to them, separate from TLR's coinage to indicate their independence from his rule? Or do they use it, somehow, in hemalurgy? I don't know of any other connections between kandra and metals of any kind - I don't think we've heard about spikes or nails in reference to them. Perhaps they melt down the atium they receive and make spikes of some kind with them?
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The third book will give you some info on why Kandra take atium as payment. ;) So just hang in there!
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The third book will give you some info on why Kandra take atium as payment. ;) So just hang in there!
Well, I was assuming it would. I mainly posed the question to see if anyone (who hasn't read MB3) had any theories.
I guess, though, that you've at least confirmed that my observation about kandra taking atium is something important! :)
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I guess, though, that you've at least confirmed that my observation about kandra taking atium is something important! :)
Ahh, but did she?
Really, this isn't actually an important post, but a test to see if HoA figures out that there is hidden text here at the bottom, and if anyone else figures it out. So, HoA, I am now officially outlining our plan to make sure it is clear. First, we pay a time-traveling mistborn a ridiculously large amount of money to steal the Lord Ruler's Atium. Then, we use the massive atium cache to hire him to assassinate VegasDev and Qarlin, as well as several other unnamed contributors to this forum. Then we use the remainder of the cache to hire a master hacker to discover their forum passwords, and then we impersonate them online for the fun of it? Or was it that we hire a master hacker to write a program that will occasionally post things for them so that no one is suspicious of our evil plan? If so, it should definitely post things that are relevant to the conversation, such as why don't you ask Brandon, and I hate you, and cheese is delicious. Just my thoughts on the matter.
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Really, this isn't actually an important post, but a test to see if HoA figures out that there is hidden text here at the bottom, and if anyone else figures it out. So, HoA, I am now officially outlining our plan to make sure it is clear. First, we pay a time-traveling mistborn a ridiculously large amount of money to steal the Lord Ruler's Atium. Then, we use the massive atium cache to hire him to assassinate VegasDev and Qarlin, as well as several other unnamed contributors to this forum. Then we use the remainder of the cache to hire a master hacker to discover their forum passwords, and then we impersonate them online for the fun of it? Or was it that we hire a master hacker to write a program that will occasionally post things for them so that no one is suspicious of our evil plan? If so, it should definitely post things that are relevant to the conversation, such as why don't you ask Brandon, and I hate you, and cheese is delicious. Just my thoughts on the matter.
God that text is small
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Font size 1, actually...
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Really, this isn't actually an important post, but a test to see if HoA figures out that there is hidden text here at the bottom, and if anyone else figures it out. So, HoA, I am now officially outlining our plan to make sure it is clear. First, we pay a time-traveling mistborn a ridiculously large amount of money to steal the Lord Ruler's Atium. Then, we use the massive atium cache to hire him to assassinate VegasDev and Qarlin, as well as several other unnamed contributors to this forum. Then we use the remainder of the cache to hire a master hacker to discover their forum passwords, and then we impersonate them online for the fun of it? Or was it that we hire a master hacker to write a program that will occasionally post things for them so that no one is suspicious of our evil plan? If so, it should definitely post things that are relevant to the conversation, such as why don't you ask Brandon, and I hate you, and cheese is delicious. Just my thoughts on the matter.
my thoughts exactly
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Would this be the same time-travelling Mistborn you and SarahG sent to kill me? You see how well that worked out. :P
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Obviously not, darx. We assassinated that time traveling mistborn with this one. Besides, who's to say that we sent him already? He is time-traveling, after all.
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Really, this isn't actually an important post, but a test to see if HoA figures out that there is hidden text here at the bottom, and if anyone else figures it out. So, HoA, I am now officially outlining our plan to make sure it is clear. First, we pay a time-traveling mistborn a ridiculously large amount of money to steal the Lord Ruler's Atium. Then, we use the massive atium cache to hire him to assassinate VegasDev and Qarlin, as well as several other unnamed contributors to this forum. Then we use the remainder of the cache to hire a master hacker to discover their forum passwords, and then we impersonate them online for the fun of it? Or was it that we hire a master hacker to write a program that will occasionally post things for them so that no one is suspicious of our evil plan? If so, it should definitely post things that are relevant to the conversation, such as why don't you ask Brandon, and I hate you, and cheese is delicious. Just my thoughts on the matter.
my thoughts exactly
OOOOOOOOOOOPPPs. Did I give our plan away??
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Well, it would have been worse if the plan I specified had actually been inside the quote box. ;)
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I'll try to get it in there next time then.
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Hey look at that, this thread just earned the entire forum a ban on changing font size! Way to go team!
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phew. I'm not sure how much more font mania I could take...
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Thank you, Spriggan!
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Hey look at that, this thread just earned the entire forum a ban on changing font size! Way to go team!
I'm curious...what exactly is the official purpose of changing the font size? I've never seen it used to do anything but this. I apologize if I broke a forum rule or if I caused anyone problems, but I was under the impression that changing font size was for random things like this. And, in my defense, I did keep it to this thread rather than going all over the place. Anyway, if there is an official reason why the feature is there, I would love to hear about it.
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The feature was there because no one abused it before, and by abuse I mean annoyed me with it.
The people who tend to use it on this site have done so the same way you use it when writing anything, headers, titles layout and so on...you know why print has multiple font sizes like that. I'm pretty sure when Gutenburg created movable type the use he could think of for it wasn't randomly changing font sizes with no purpose other then being annoying.
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The feature was there because no one abused it before, and by abuse I mean annoyed me with it.
Must be nice to have the power to eliminate and outlaw whatever happens to annoy you. :) Explain to me again why it's Brandon who's the evil overlord, not you?
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Well, that's the thing about Evil Overlords; it's generally a really good idea to only have one. Competition and all that, you understand. Besides, the Evil Overlord is usually responsible for hashing out plots for dominion and conquest and all that. Other people (like Spriggan) take direct control of what actually happens, freeing the Overlord to further his plans instead of dealing with annoyances.
There... Now honestly, I think this thread is about done with, since we've been off topic for well over 10 posts. Eh? Unless we have more to say about Hollywood Speculation in reference to Brandon Sanderson's books?
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I just have one more question concerning hollywood. If Brandon were to sell rights to a mistborn movie or mini series or the like, would he be able to keep some kind of control over it like J.K. Rowling has done with the harry potter movies or does he not have that kind of control over the franchise(im not sure how Tor handles those kinds of things). It seems to me that when the authors have some kind of say about the final piece it stays truer to the books and the fans are not as disappointed.
I hope it goes well with the movie deal. Best of luck to you Brandon.
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I'm curious to see who's going to play Alcatraz Smedry.
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You mean the voice of Alcatraz, right? Although it would be cool to have Beuwulf style animation for the movie. I hope it gets made, although we will be waiting quite some time before it is released.
I don't find it particularly wise to publicly question a webmaster's decision, especially when that webmaster is EUOL's brother. We got what we deserved, let's move on.
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Posted on: Yesterday at 10:02:54 AMPosted by: bhthomas
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I just have one more question concerning hollywood. If Brandon were to sell rights to a mistborn movie or mini series or the like, would he be able to keep some kind of control over it like J.K. Rowling has done with the harry potter movies or does he not have that kind of control over the franchise(im not sure how Tor handles those kinds of things). It seems to me that when the authors have some kind of say about the final piece it stays truer to the books and the fans are not as disappointed.
I hope it goes well with the movie deal. Best of luck to you Brandon.
From what I remeber from other authers web sites how much control you have is all part of the contract. From what I remember, generally the more control you have the less the pay you for the rights.
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I don't find it particularly wise to publicly question a webmaster's decision, especially when that webmaster is EUOL's brother. We got what we deserved, let's move on.
You're absolutely right. Have mercy on us and forgive us, O All-Powerful Trusted Lieutenant of the Evil Overlord.