At long last, the first real look at The Wheel of Time is here. We’ve gotten tiny peeks and glimpses aplenty, but nothing like the images Entertainment Weekly shared today: four shots showing a key location, an important moment, and just about all the major players.
Of course, these peeks don’t show anything too major. But here are the characters we’ve been waiting to see: Zoë Robins as Nynaeve al’Meara; Barney Harris as Matrim Cauthon; Daniel Henney as al’Lan Mandragoran (without armor?); Rosamund Pike as Moiraine Damodred (with a very noticeable ring); Madeleine Madden as Egwene al’Vere; Marcus Rutherford as Perrin Aybara; and Josha Stradowski as Rand al’Thor.
Showrunner @rafejudkins previews his TV take on @TheWheelOfTime. https://t.co/ZnFaHD7WrK
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 18, 2021
Among the other photos are Egwene al’Vere (Madeleine Madden) and Rand sharing a quiet moment on a nice rock; the Taking of Logain (Alvaro Morte), as he’s captured by Alanna Mosvani (Priyanka Bose) and Kerene Nagashi (Clare Perkins); Lan carrying Moraine at Shadar Logoth. In the accompanying story, showrunner Rafe Judkins says, “We literally built Shadar Logoth from scratch just for 15 minutes of airtime, because it’s that important to the series.”
We’ve been waiting to see these characters come to life since at least 2018, when Amazon first ordered the show to series. At the time, the official summary read:
Set in a sprawling world where magic exists but can only be used by women, the story follows Moiraine, a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization the Aes Sedai, as she embarks on a dangerous journey with five young men and women. Moiraine’s interest in these five lies in the fact that she believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual who prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it.
Here, finally, are all five of those men and women in the flesh. What do you think?
The Wheel of Time premieres on Amazon in November. Hopefully they’ll tell us exactly when in November before much longer.
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