Difference between revisions of "Dark One (franchise)"

In July 2013 Brandon said that he was having difficulty getting ''Dark One'' "off the ground;" that he had had an opportunity but ''The Rithmatist'' had worked better, so he recommended readers to "not hold [their] breath on this one." At this point Brandon described it as non-[[Cosmere]].{{sots ref|name=sots2013}}

In December 2014 Brandon mentioned that he had made a lot of progress on the setting for ''Dark One'', now referring to it as a Cosmere work. He also said that it would likely be the teen series he worked on after ''[[The Reckoners]]'' and ''The Rithmatist'' were complete.{{sots ref|name=sots142014}} Brandon mentioned the possibility of it being released by Penguin Random House, as ''The Reckoners'' is, instead of by Tor.{{wob ref|2927}}

In 2017 Brandon made new progress on ''Dark One'' when he decided to approach it as a television show or graphic novel. He wrote a new outline for an eight episode series, inspired by ''[[Wikipedia:Stranger Things|Stranger Things]]'' and ''[[Wikipedia:Westworld_(TV_series)|Westworld]]''. The new story would be "a parallel narrative--half in our world, half in another world. A kind of dark 'portal fantasy' story." FremantleMedia, who was intrigued in Brandon's early outline for ''Dark One'', was immediately interested.{{ref|name=deadlinecomment}} In December 2017, Brandon announced that he had rewritten the outline for the story, noting that the tone became "both older, and more twisted" than in the previous version, and that he had received television and graphic novel interest, but gave no other details about these developments. He also mentioned that it was again no longer planned as a Cosmere work.{{sots ref|name=sots172017}}