As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The second book centers on the aftermath of that battle and even more questions for David, who has found a new foe that will require a quest darker and even more dangerous.ĭaria Cerek is overseeing for Fox with Will Rack for 21 Laps, which has Table 19 in postproduction at Fox Searchlight, Story Of Your Life shooting at Paramount with Denis Villenueve directing Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, a fall start date on the Ice Cube-Charlie Day comedy Fist Fight at New Line, the John Hamburg-directed comedy Why Him? at Fox, and a Netflix supernatural series with Matt and Ross Duffer.Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. The book centers on David, who wants in the group because Steelheart killed his father, and he alone knows the Epics’ true weakness. Nobody fights back but the Reckoners, a shadowy group of ordinary humans who spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. In what was once Chicago, an astonishingly powerful Epic named Steelheart installed himself as emperor. The awed public started calling them Epics, but with incredible gifts came the desire to rule. The tale begins with a burst in the sky that gave some ordinary people extraordinary powers.

This could potentially provide a franchise play with an original twist on the superhero genre: the idea of what happens if the handful of all-powerful people lord their powers over everyone else and enslave them.

Levy is producing through his 21 Laps banner. Fox bought the book in January - it is referred to as The Reckoners series - after the author had sketched out that first book and a follow-up, Firefight. Blanchard was tapped off his work on the Independence Day sequel and Glimmer, the latter of which is in preproduction. EXCLUSIVE: Fox has set Carter Blanchard to adapt Steelheart, the first leg of a three-book trilogy by Brandon Sanderson that is being developed as a potential directing vehicle for Shawn Levy.

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson