The Future of Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Universe To try and secure additional funding and support for the movie, DMG Entertainment partnered with virtual reality developer Arcturus to release The Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains, a VR experience that lets players try out some of the fantasy world's magic and explore its settings.

Because the Stormlight Archive will not be cheap. 'Hopefully, Wheel of Time or Name of the Wind will come out and do really well, and that will spark everybody wanting to make very expensive fantasy properties and very expensive television shows. Surprising!' Sanderson wrote, explaining that a movie series could find traction again if other prominent fantasy series adaptations succeed. 'Right now, latest news is they're worried Stormlight is going to be too hard to do as a film series. Sanderson last offered an update on The Stormlight Archive movie series in April 2018, in response to a fan question. Here's some movie news that has been a long time coming. Assuming he hits his most optimistic projection, readers can expect to read The Stormlight Archive Book 4 by the end of 2020. ' Stormlight 4 & 5 outlining' currently stands at 25 percent. Sanderson is known for his prolificity, often tracking his writing process in-depth on his website, where he maintains progress bars for specific projects. 'It's a long process, likely to take around eighteen months or longer.'Įach book in The Stormlight Archive is structured, according to Sanderson, 'as a trilogy written as a single novel (though in five parts) with a short story collection spliced into it.' The first five books in the series are expected to form their own narrative, with the second sequence of five books acting as a sequel that, together form the 'mega arc' of the series. 'My 2019 is dedicated to writing the fourth Stormlight book,' Sanderson posted to the Stormlight subreddit. On January 2, Sanderson updated readers on his progress with The Stormlight Archive Book 4. So when can we expect Book 4 in The Stormlight Archive series? Sanderson has developed a reputation among fantasy fans for creating complex magic systems, and The Stormlight Archive, sees characters wield more than ten different forms of magic. It is an unusually complex saga, following a handful of viewpoint characters as they work to prevent the warlike Parshendi from unleashing ancient chaos upon Roshar.

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