Brandon Sanderson explains why he chose the ‘One Piece’ studio (Tomorrow Studios) to adapt his epic sci-fi series ‘Skyward’: “It was right after One Piece came out that I sat down seriously with them… I’m like, ‘All right, you really can make things that are good.'”
by NoNefariousness2144
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>Holy poop, these guys read the books and they seem to want to do the things that the books are about and such things.
– Brandon Sanderson
One Piece is so good. Skyward is gonna be a piece of cake for them.
“You mean they listen to the author?”
I’m trying to catch up with his books before they begin releasing the adaptation, I’ve read all Mistborn (which should be the first one), now I’m 80% through Words
Man Skyward falls off so badly after book one. This studio has their work cut out for them
I hate one-piece, the anime and Netflix series, but I have to admit that, at least the adaption, is objectively good. I’m relatively confident this one will be good as well.
While I’m glad One Piece had someone passionate to adapt it, I think we’re still in the phase where people are figuring out what makes a good adaptation, not knowing exactly what that is yet.
There have been a lot of bad adaptations that don’t stick close enough to the source material, and then you have One Piece, which is almost too faithful; certain things are awesome in anime/manga, but when they transition that to live-action, it comes across as campy or just not as good.
Obviously, it’s a case-by-case basis, and One Piece is one of the stronger adaptations we’ve had, but I’d be interested to see how Sanderson handles this with his own works. Perhaps things that work in the books don’t transfer as well on-screen.
In any case, I’m glad he’s getting experience with this before Stormlight.
Skyward is one story that probably works even better as a modern-style 8 episodes per season cinematic TV show, than as a novel series.