The Wheel of Time is a fantasy epic that spans through 14 books, with a rich world of forbidden magic and strange lands, and it will finally be coming to Amazon this year. Amazon revealed the tv show’s logo Wednesday afternoon as part of its Wheel of Time Wednesdays.
You can see the trailer starts its focus on the scales of a snake, forever spiraling, until we get the title font of The Wheel of Time and a year date for 2021. The snake eating its own tail is a symbol used throughout the book series, but mainly seen as the ring of an Aes Sedai, a wielder of the famed One Power.
The Wheel of Time itself is used as a metaphor in the book as a metaphysical construct in how dying and being reborn works in the story–it’s more of a spinning wheel, weaving a pattern, aptly called the Pattern in the series as well.
The Wheel of Time book series was written by Robert Jordan, real name James Rigney, but died in 2007. The series was finished by best-selling author Brandon Sanderson and Jordan’s widow Harriet, who also served as his editor. The series spanned over 23 years, starting in 1990 with the first book, The Eye of the World.
The cast was announced back in 2019, with Joshua Stradowski as Rand al’Thor, Marcus Rutherford as Perrin Aybara, with Zoë Robins playing Nynaeve. There’s also Barney Harris playing Mat Cauthon and Madeleine Madden as Egwene Al’Vere. The first cast member announced was Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred, an Aes Sedai of the Blue Ajah.
A small adaptation of The Wheel of Time novels had been in the works in one form or another going back as far as 2000, but the projects mostly never made it past the development stages. There was a pilot Winter Dragon that aired on FXX back in February 2015, starring Max Ryan as Lews Therin and Billy Zane as Ishamael. It aired at 1:30 A with no prior publicity. It was one of those cases, much like the Roger Corman Fantastic Four movie where something had to be made or they would lose the rights entirely.
No air date has been announced just yet, but the series has already been renewed for a second season.
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