Sanderson’s Weekly Update
On April 7 Brandon Sanderson posted his regular weekly update and said he’s actively progressing on a Mistborn screenplay while sharing what he’s been reading this break. ( ) He also plugged that his Magic: The Gathering novella 'Children of the Nameless' is available in print from Subterranean Press and recommended rereading Red Rising — tiny publication and reading notes that matter if you care about creative inputs behind big‑world fantasy. ( )
Brandon Sanderson used his April 7 weekly update to say the current thing on his desk is a Mistborn screenplay, and he put a number on it: 55%, with the draft now in the second half of Act 2. (brandonsanderson.com) That is a more specific checkpoint than “still working on it.” Sanderson said he is in the stretch with Vin going to noble balls while learning how to operate as a Mistborn, which places the adaptation in one of the first novel’s central story threads. (brandonsanderson.com) He has been giving these screenplay percentages in recent weekly videos, so fans are effectively watching a novelist report a movie draft the way some people track marathon training miles. The April 7 post is the clearest sign yet that the script is moving line by line, not sitting in development limbo. (youtube.com) (brandonsanderson.com) The same update was also a reading diary. Sanderson said he is rereading Red Rising during spring break, and the YouTube description framed the episode around what he has been reading while away from his usual routine. (youtube.com) That detail is small, but it is the kind of small detail readers watch closely with Sanderson. Red Rising is Pierce Brown’s fast, class-war science-fantasy series, so hearing Sanderson name it while he is drafting Mistborn gives fans one concrete look at what is in his head during screenplay work. (youtube.com) He also used the update to push a side project back into view: Children of the Nameless, his 2018 Magic: The Gathering novella, now has a print edition through Subterranean Press. Sanderson called the first release an expensive limited edition and said a $45 trade edition is now available. (brandonsanderson.com) Subterranean Press lists two very different versions, which explains the price talk in the video. The signed limited edition is $250 and capped at 1,500 copies, while Sanderson’s update points readers to the lower-priced trade version as the practical option. (subterraneanpress.com) (brandonsanderson.com) Sanderson also said he originally wrote Children of the Nameless for $1 because he wanted to do his own story inside Wizards of the Coast’s world, and he said his earnings from this edition are being donated to charity. Subterranean Press says a portion of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play Charity. (brandonsanderson.com) (subterraneanpress.com) He added one more publishing note that collectors will notice. Sanderson said there is still a “small chance” of a later New York publisher edition that would be cheaper than the current $45 Subterranean Press trade release. (brandonsanderson.com) So the April 7 update landed in three lanes at once: a Mistborn movie script at 55%, a spring-break reread of Red Rising, and a fresh print push for a once-free Magic novella. For Sanderson readers, that is the whole ecosystem in one post: adaptation work, reading influences, and the side stories that keep escaping the margins. (brandonsanderson.com) (youtube.com)
