Casting news! Get your freshly-picked casting news! For The Wheel of Time on Prime Video! But you probably already guessed that.
(Note: The comments section for this piece will most likely contain spoilers for the Wheel of Time series.)
The latest from WOTonPrime is that Basel Gill will be played by Darren Clarke (Da Vinci’s Demons, Ashes to Ashes). Gill is the innkeeper of The Queen’s Blessing—a loyalist to Queen Morgase, and a good friend of Thom Merrilin.
The Wednesday surprises keep coming! Darren Clarke joins the cast of #WOTonPrime as Basel Gill. pic.twitter.com/q0wuSjtbwh
— The Wheel Of Time (@TheWheelOfTime) July 15, 2020
Here are all the casting reveals so far:
- Moiraine and Lan
- Nynaeve, Egwene, Rand, Mat, and Perrin
- Thom Merrilin, Loial, Padan Fain, Logain
- Alanna Mosvani and her two warders, Ihvon and Maksim
- Tam al’Thor and Daryl McCormack in an undisclosed role
- Leane Sharif
- Liandrin Guirale
- Kerene Nagashi
- Egwene’s parents, Mat’s parents, amd more!
- Eamon and Geofram
We have no word on how the production delay will effect the show’s release date, but we’ll give you the updates as they come!
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When i saw the headline, i was thinking Saml Hake, but cool
@2 Yeah strangely my mind went to Bran al’Vere, but then I remembered he’d already been cast.
Matt Hatch from The Dusty Wheel is my favorite WoT innkeeper.
Thanks for reading my musings.
AndrewHB
I mean, I can’t say I was chomping at the bit for this particular casting, but I’m glad things are still moving!
Mod – the casting reveals also should include the Grinwells and “Dana” – is it Else? Is it Min? Is it Mili Skane?- announced a few days ago.
https://dragonmount.com/news/tv-show/the-grinwells/
They’re gonna need a lot of makeup to make him look like Setalle Anan.
Casting list is also missing Maria Doyle Kennedy in an undisclosed role (cough cough Elaida). Ditto Peter Franzen (apparently Kerene’s warder). .
@6 awwh, exactly my thought, you beat me to it!
I was thinking it was way too early to be casting Setalle.
We really need to get to the casting of Bela (AKA the Dark One).
Lisamarie@@.-@:
These are just the official name releases. They’ve likely already shot this actor’s scenes.
RobM@5,7:
From what I can see, Tor.com is only posting the “official” castings that have been released by @WoTonPrime. We know a lot more castings that Amazon hasn’t made official, or announced on Social Media.
Have you guys even read the books? This looks like a casting for 90210 Land was a big man a man’s man some one like Adrian Paul .Plus he is a real swords man perrin is a black Smith not a fashion model come on keep it authentic
I had to lol @@@@@ the trolling in 12.
Daniel Henney has two inches and 20 lbs on Adrian Paul. I’m assuming he meant Lan, not Rand.
Either way, Lan and Rand are both 6’6″ in the books, although apparently Lan is much more heavily built than Rand. Neither of them are in any way described as 6′ 180 lb Adrian Paul.
I don’t think people understand how ridiculously large Rand and Lan are. They dwarf Chris Hemsworth. The actor they cast to play Lan is bigger than Chris Evans, who plays Captain America.
Lan? If you wanted someone to accurately portray the physicality of Lan, you’re talking finding someone built like NFL defensive end JJ Watt.
Think Darth Vader, he was six six. Yes, that is very tall. I’d look Lan or Rand right in the wishbone.
AP @11 – the Grinwells and “Dana” were announced on Wotonprime. I’ll have to check for MDK and Franzen.
Should do a new blurb for the casting announcements from yesterday. Maria Doyle Kennedy as Ila, the loving wife of Raen who serves the leader of the Tuatha’an Traveling People. Daryl McCormack, long known to be cast without confirmation of role, will be Aram. Indian actor Narinda Samra is playing Raen.
I have mixed feelings about MDK. I was REALLY hoping she’d play Elaida, but I’m happy to have her in anything she wants to play.