Brandon Sanderson update

Brandon Sanderson’s latest update was small on purpose. That is what made it useful. In a new weekly video and the linked social post, he said the first *Mistborn* screenplay is still his main focus, that it is “coming along nicely,” that he is rereading Pierce Brown’s *Red Rising*, and that *Children of the Nameless*, his 2018 *Magic: The Gathering* novella, is finally heading to print (youtube.com). None of that is a splashy announcement. All of it is movement. The *Mistborn* note matters most because this adaptation has spent years in the realm of maybe. That changed in January, when Apple TV acquired adaptation rights to Sanderson’s *Mistborn* and *Stormlight Archive* books in a deal that Reactor reported would give him unusual creative control for a project of this size (reactormag.com). A few days later, Sanderson said the plan was a *Mistborn* feature film first, with him writing the screenplay himself and working toward a summer 2026 deadline, while *Stormlight* would be developed as a streaming series (reactormag.com). That turned a long-running fan fantasy into an actual production calendar. Now the calendar has inched forward again. Last week, coverage of Sanderson’s weekly update reported that the script had reached the 50 percent mark and that his talks with Apple had been encouraging, even if the studio had not yet read the full draft (ign.com). That is not the same thing as a green light. It is more interesting than that. Sanderson is not describing an optioned property sitting on a shelf. He is describing pages being written for a studio partner he chose because, in his telling, the partnership “felt right” and left him with more say than most novelists ever get (reactormag.com). The *Red Rising* aside looks stray until you remember how Sanderson works in public. His weekly updates often mix hard production news with snapshots of what he is reading, teaching fans to read his career less as a sequence of launches than as a continuous feed of inputs and outputs (youtube.com). Saying he is rereading Pierce Brown’s series does not signal a crossover or a deal. It signals that, even while he is drafting a film script, he is still visibly part of the wider commercial fantasy and science-fiction conversation. For an author whose brand is relentless throughput, that kind of detail reassures readers that the machine is still humming. That is also why *Children of the Nameless* coming to print lands as more than a collector’s curio. Subterranean Press announced on March 23 that it would publish the first print edition of the novella as a signed limited run of 1,500 copies, and on April 6 it added a trade hardcover edition limited to 5,000 copies, with shipping set to begin April 13, 2026 (subterraneanpress.com; subterraneanpress.com). The story first appeared free on Wizards of the Coast’s site in 2018. Subterranean says a portion of proceeds will go to Child’s Play charity (subterraneanpress.com). That print move also fixes a real access problem. Polygon noted that Wizards of the Coast has since removed the novella from its official story archive, which made this new edition the clearest official way back into one of the most liked pieces of modern *Magic* fiction (polygon.com). So Sanderson’s update was not really about three unrelated hobbies. It was about one career operating on several tracks at once: a movie script halfway drafted, a reading life still on display, and a once-free side story becoming a hardcover that starts shipping on April 13 (youtube.com; subterraneanpress.com).