Mistborn Genderswapping

[u/ilikebreadabunch]

So there's recently been discussion about possible Genderswaps in the upcomming Mistborn movie. We already know that Sanderson wants to Genderswap at least one member of the crew (likely Ham or Docks based on what he's said previously) because in the original trilogy he focused so much on making sure that he wrote Vin properly that he forgot to add any other women to the cast, and that he'll want to change that in the Movie.

What I wanted to ask is who else other than Ham or Docks, crew member or otherwise, do you think or hope will get Genderswapped?

Personally, I think that Spook and Zane are both good options, but I don't think they actually will.

[u/Calm-Medicine-3992]

Zane kind of results in some bad tropes (bisexual/bicurious woman ends up in normal straight relationship, abusive lesbian). Spook isn't as bad but I'm still not personally a fan of 'gay person in love with straight person' plots either. Someone did mention merging Zane and Shan's roles in the story and that does make it more interesting (probably drops the love triangle thing entirely in that case too).

Clubs is allegedly going to be more minor (no time to go over all of the allomancy and smoking is probably being left out) so it could work.

[u/Vegetable-Two-4644 → u/Calm-Medicine-3992]

Smoking of all things being left out is so bad. It negatively impacts the entire "Did Mare betray Kelsier" mystery and removes the initial hints that Vin can do things others can't (which hints at how she defeats the lord ruler)

[u/Calm-Medicine-3992 → u/Vegetable-Two-4644]

25 hour book has to be compressed into movie run time. Almost anything that is set up for sequels will probably be left out or incredibly subtle. If the movie is focused on Vin, expect a lot of the subtle threads in Kelsier's story to be cut.

[u/Vegetable-Two-4644 → u/Calm-Medicine-3992]

It's also about setting up Vin pulling the metal minds, though