Adapting stories across media: know which single story the film tells, avoid "telling" to cram plot, and broaden audience without losing core fans (Sanderson; Arcane's Christian Linke)

Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated. SanderFAQ (2026-03-26): his old rule "keep the soul, adapt to the medium" is refined. Failure mode: cramming too much of a book into a short film forces characters to stop and explain (telling instead of showing) - his example is The Golden Compass, made with evident passion and good casting yet too short for an epic and overloaded. Faithful adaptations can still work (early Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, which cut few scenes but combined, streamlined and reordered many) if they know what story they are telling: a novel can carry many stories, a film needs a central one - his Mistborn film is being reframed as Vin's story while keeping the heist. DSNX panel with Arcane co-creator Christian Linke (2026-01-22, condensed read): Arcane aimed at both game players and a general audience at once ("both" when told it doesn't exist), as a Western answer to adult anime-style animation; earlier adult animated features like Titan A.E. were rejected by audiences, but younger audiences lack the bias against animation; screen adaptations must reach beyond the core fanbase to justify budgets, whereas books can serve existing readers. For AI-assisted short films and series (C3-B394-02, C3-B395-02): pick one throughline per piece, prefer showing over expository dialogue to fit short clip budgets, and design for newcomers as well as fans. Curator qualifications: Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. Nothing was tested; promotional or sponsored framing applies where stated. All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; video metadata checked where cited. Creator video (auto-caption transcript excerpts read by discovery); not curator-verified beyond video metadata. Limitations: Creator statements were read by discovery from auto-captions (ASR); not re-verified by the curator. One partial (condensed) read; opinions of practitioners. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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