A small company bought the rights to make a Mistborn movie based on the books by Brandon Sanderson. They've basically gone as far as they can go on preproduction work and are now looking for a larger producer to basically pay for everything and get the whole thing going. One of the things that this smaller company has done is made a trailer for the movie made up of clips from other movies to use while trying to sell the movie and get it made. This basically shows people what they can expect out of the movie once it has actually moved into production, giving producers an idea as to what they'll be getting into. They are looking for hits on the video on youtube to show larger companies how popular the series is and how much money that they would make on the movie if they were to make it. More hits = more people excited about the movie etc. If you'd like to help out watch the video below, it's pretty cool.
If the framing of my blog cuts off the edges of the video just move your cursor over the picture and click on the text "Mistborn Trailer" at the top left and it'll link to the youtube source page.
Also, if you haven't already, check out Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy. It was a pretty fun series of books that is normally overshadowed by his other, more popular, works. Which is a shame, because they were my favorites of his books before The Way of Kings came out.
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I've only just begin the Mistborn series (my twenty-something son gave it to me) and am no longer left wondering how the great Robert Jordan chose Brandon Sanderson from among so many talented authors. His talent literally shines off the page and while I tend to generally despise what results from the fantasy series-to-film process (Game of Thrones being the only exception) the Misborn series just screams for similar treatment. It's far too deep and rich and intense to be crushed into 2-3 hours or even 2-3 films. It deserves the whole HBO or semi-equivalent treatment. That would be EPIC! I hope these "smaller producers" have had the sense to shop this "product" around as George R. R. Martin did with A Song of Ice and Fire.
ReplyDeleteThat I include Sanderson's series (positively) in the same comment as that in which I mention anything written by Martin is the highest praise I offer.