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Apple TV+ Secures Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere for Screen, Targeting Mistborn Films and Stormlight TV

The agreement grants Brandon Sanderson rare approval power over on-screen decisions.

Overview

  • Apple TV+ closed a widely reported deal for film and television rights across the Cosmere, per The Hollywood Reporter.
  • Mistborn is being developed as a feature-film property, while The Stormlight Archive is moving forward in television development with Blue Marble attached.
  • Reporting describes Sanderson’s role as unusually expansive, with writing, producing, consulting duties and formal approvals over adaptations.
  • The pact followed a competitive process that included meetings with multiple studio leaders before Apple prevailed.
  • Sanderson says he will spend the next five months writing a Mistborn screenplay, aiming to launch a theatrical film before a Stormlight series, with all projects still in early development and no cast or directors announced.