According to IMDb, Brandon Sanderson's beloved sci-fi novel Skyward is officially heading to television as a series adaptation. For fans of the Cosmere author's work, this is the moment they've been waiting for.
Why Skyward Is a Fancasting Dream
For the uninitiated: Skyward follows Spensa Nightshade, a scrappy, fiercely determined young woman living in an underground society on an alien world, desperate to become a starfighter pilot and clear her disgraced father's name. It's got a ragtag flight crew, a sarcastic AI ship named M-Bot, high-stakes dogfights, and enough emotional gut-punches to fuel a multi-season run. In other words, it's exactly the kind of ensemble-driven story that makes fancasting irresistible.
The adaptation opens up a genuinely exciting roster of roles to debate — from the lead (Spensa is one of Sanderson's most distinctive protagonists) to the members of Defiant Flight, the sardonic M-Bot, and the formidable Admiral Judy Ivans. Sanderson commands one of the most passionate fanbases in genre fiction, and those readers are going to have opinions.
What myCast Fans Are Already Saying
The myCast community hasn't waited for official casting news to start dreaming. The primary Skyward fan-cast story has accumulated 75 votes across 16 roles, and the results are fascinating.
The most decisive pick so far? Keiynan Lonsdale as Jorgen — the rigid, rule-following flight leader who becomes one of the story's most compelling arcs — with a commanding 24 votes. That's nearly a third of all votes cast going to a single pick, which signals real fan consensus. Robin Wright has earned 15 votes as Admiral Ivans, and honestly, the case writes itself: Wright brings exactly the kind of cool, authoritative menace that makes Ivans such a magnetic antagonist figure.
For M-Bot, the fan favorite AI with an obsession with mushrooms and a talent for deadpan comedy, Bill Hader leads with 11 votes — a genuinely inspired choice that would lean hard into the character's dry wit. Emeraude Toubia tops the picks for Morningtide with 8 votes, while (5 votes) and (4 votes) round out fan thinking on Rig and Nedd respectively. One bittersweet note: fans in that story have cast the late as Gran Gran — a tribute that speaks to how perfectly her energy fit the role.