Brandon Sanderson Gives First Update on Apple TV's Mistborn Movie, Confirms He'll Be Co-Showrunner for the Stormlight Archive Series

After past week's large quality that Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere beingness would beryllium coming to Apple TV, the writer has already offered up immoderate advancement connected the upcoming Mistborn movie. More specifically, Sanderson has revealed a advancement barroom connected his website for the task that indicates helium is already 2% done with the script.

Sanderson took to his Youtube transmission to sermon immoderate of the details of his caller Apple TV partnership, saying he's been looking for a spouse to accommodate his books for rather a portion and started doing this latest circular of pitches successful Hollywood backmost successful May 2025.

"I've been looking for a partner, not idiosyncratic conscionable to merchantability things disconnected to," helium explained astir his determination to onslaught a woody with Apple TV. "This 1 feels different."

He went a spot further into his reasons for choosing Apple implicit everyone else; "I truly liked the vibe, but I similar the vibe with a batch of these meetings. There weren't immoderate atrocious meetings successful the group. Part of it was the magnitude of power that Apple was consenting to connection me. But it's little astir power and much astir the partnership."

Sanderson confirmed that they are inactive readying Mistborn arsenic a diagnostic movie and Stormlight Archive arsenic a series, but that thing is needfully acceptable successful stone. Although this is presently the trajectory, helium said "that could alteration arsenic we enactment and make these things."

He besides confirmed his engagement successful the Stormlight Archive series, commenting: "I volition beryllium the co-showrunner with someone. So, we're going to beryllium hunting down that person." Sanderson volition reportedly person approvals connected each task successful this partnership, which volition necessitate him to beryllium "deeply involved" successful the improvement of each one.

Sanderson besides addressed the elephant successful the country regarding his upcoming books, confirming that these projects volition so interaction his penning schedule, but "not to the constituent that I deliberation you request to worry."

With George R.R. Martin's last Game of Thrones publication seemingly connected indefinite clasp aft years of the writer moving connected TV shows, this is simply a suspiration of alleviation for fans disquieted the aforesaid happening volition hap to Mistborn oregon The Stormlight Archive. You tin presently spot the advancement of each of Sanderson's penning projects connected his website alongside the Mistborn script. The adjacent book, which kicks disconnected the 3rd Mistborn Era, is inactive presently slated for a 2028 release.

With the woody inactive fresh, it's apt going to beryllium a agelong clip earlier we spot immoderate of these Apple TV projects travel to fruition. In the meantine, you tin cheque retired which books to work earlier the on-screen adaptions. You tin besides work IGN's afloat timeline of The Cosmere books for a deeper dive into Sanderson's sprawling literate universe.