Enlarge Image,modalTemplate: content,setContentOnInit:false BrandonSanderson.com From Eragon (an unfortunate flop) to Game of Thrones (nailed it) to The Chronicles of Narnia (already rebooting), the genre has transcended from something I used to get made fun of for in high school to a multibillion-dollar land of lembas and butterbeer.

Now the arguably current heir apparent, Brandon Sanderson, is getting his chance to move off the pages.

DMG Entertainment, the Chinese media company behind movies like Looper, Priest and the recent Point Break remake, has committed to spending almost 300 million licensing the rights to Sandersons Cosmere fantasy universe.

Variety reports that DMG will start with The Way Of Kings, the opening book in The Stormlight Archive trilogy.

Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan wrote the Saw films, will pen the script.

The Cosmere -- Sandersons equivalent of Stephen Kings Dark Tower or Tolkiens Middle-earth universes -- spans not just a single trilogy, but multiple novels and series.

Each of the Cosmere series references events on a single fictional world (currently at 11 known worlds), which is centered on one or more of 16 Shards(roughly explained as the powers of creation itself).

The good news is the books are very accessible, and Sandersons fast-paced, approachable writing makes it easy to dive into his worlds without any prior knowledge.

Having personally read Elantris (his first novel, now a series), the Mistborn series and the Rithmatist (not part of the Cosmere), Id argue Sanderson is doing an excellent job writing in the fantasy genre while aiming at modern readers.

Sanderson is active on Twitter and directly engages with his fans there, and on Reddit as well.

On Thursday, he expressed excitement about the massive movie deal.

Correction, Friday at 10:20 a.m.

PT: The original article misstated the number of Cosmere Shards.

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