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World Premiere Set for November 15 in London

Amazon Prime Video has set the date for the world premiere of their upcoming Wheel of Time TV show for Monday, November 15, 2021 in London. As normal for these type of events, the cast and crew are expected to attend and make themselves available on the red carpet before the screening of the first episode.
 
In addition, we’re delighted to announce that Dragonmount founder Jason Denzel, along with producer Kathy Campbell and TV blogger Adam Whitehead, will be in attendance for the event. Jason and Kathy will be on the red carpet, streaming live video, sharing photos, and engaging with fans on social media. Be sure to follow our social media so you don’t miss anything. Here’s our video announcement:
 

 
The time and location of the event itself are not publicly available yet. 
 
Also announced today were free fan screenings of the first 2 episodes in select cities.
 
The Wheel of Time premieres on Amazon Prime Video on November 19, 2021. For more information about the TV show, visit our dedicated section on the website which includes a cast list and all officially-released media for the show so far.
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    Dragonmount will attend the world premiere of The Wheel of Time in London on November 15. 

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Dragonmount.com

Amazon Announces Free Fan Events on November 15

Amazon Prime Video announced today that they will host FREE fan screenings of the first 2 episodes (Leavetaking and Shadow's Waiting) of the upcoming Wheel of Time TV show in the following U.S. cities on Monday, November 15:
 
Atlanta
Austin
Chicago
Dallas
Denver
Los Angeles * Hosted by Dragonmount
Miami
New York
San Francisco
Seattle
Washinton D.C.
 
Other non- U.S. cities will be announced soon. Keep an eye on your regional Amazon Prime social media accounts. 
 
Visit here to register for the events!
 
We're also delighted to announce that the Los Angeles event will be hosted by Dragonmount. Join Kitty, Katy, and Thom as they appear on stage to welcome you to the event and introduce the first TWO episodes. (Leavetaking and Shadow's Waiting)
 

 
Visit here to register for the events.
 
Times and locations will vary depending on the city. Event attendees will be requires to comply with local COVID protocols.
 
Who's planning to attend? Who will be at our Los Angeles event?
 

 
 
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    Amazon Prime Video announces free fan screenings in select cities. 

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Dragonmount.com

FantologyPV Sneak Peak of Moiraine

Earlier this week, The Wheel of Time account helped announce FantologyPV, from Amazon Prime Video. According to their twitter bio:
 
 
 

 
 
 
FantologyPV fullfilled their promise of exclusive content when they revealed today, via their official social media accounts the following video:
 
 
This video has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. It was also posted to instagram and YouTube by Amazon Prime Video Australia New Zealand, which said in the description of the video that this clip is a sneak peek of the first minute of the series. The one minute long clip opens with Moiraine getting dressed as she describes the breaking of the world and how the dragon has been reborn. She specifically says that they aren’t sure the Dragon Reborn is a girl or a boy. It will be interesting to see how the show resolves this slight change from the book series, where Moiraine always knew she was looking for a boy. We see Moiraine glance over a map of the Westlands, before donning her cloak over an awesome pair of suspenders and an even more epic pair of knives at her hip. She walks out and Lan meets her with their horses. 
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of this new teaser? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
 
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    A New Wheel Of Time Exclusive Clip (That's also the first minute of the TV Show!)

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

The Two Rivers Teaser

The Wheel of Time revealed today, via their official social media accounts the following video:
 
 
This video has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. This teaser looks similar to the Aes Sedai explained video providing background on the world of the Wheel of Time. This time we focus on the town called The Two Rivers. It appears the show is simplifying the name of Emonds Field to The Two Rivers. The show has also located the town up in the mountains compared to the books where the towns of the region were beyond of the foothills of the Mountains of Mist.
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of this new teaser? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums.  
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    The Wheel of Time reveals a new video all about The Two Rivers. 

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Rajiv's Threads In the Pattern: A Turning of the Wheel

Rajiv Moté is Dragonmount’s book blogger with a lens on the craft of fiction writing. When he’s not directing software engineers, he writes fiction of his own, which can be found catalogued at his website.
 
The Wheel of Time turns, and the tapestry it spins across the Ages is not made of identical weaves, but echoing patterns. So it is with adaptations, and Robert Jordan gave us the framework to embrace the differences between the books and Amazon Prime Video’s series. The show is a new turning of the Wheel, a new angle on a 30-year-old saga. Adaptation is interpretation. This is an opportunity for fans to experience The Wheel of Time in a fresh way.
 
One of the most striking and interesting angles is that this season’s preview trailers [1, 2] center the story on Moiraine Damodred. If you read the books beginning with the prequel, New Spring, it’s easy to see how to frame The Wheel of Time as Moiraine’s story (up to a certain point, of course). She has knowledge that must be held close, and the world’s fate depends on what she does with it. Right away, this does a couple of interesting things.
 

 
First, it cements the stakes. Moiraine knows the history of the Dark One’s war on humanity and the prophecies of how he can be beaten. We won’t waste time figuring out whether we can trust Moiraine. The world is in danger, and the prophecies must be fulfilled or all is lost. This is essentially the plot of New Spring, and it figures heavily into the second trailer.
 
Second, centering Moiraine makes the book’s non-mystery of who will stand against and defeat the Dark One into something more complicated--and more in line with the books’ ending. (SPOILERS for the end of The Eye of the World, and for the end of A Memory of Light!) Rand al’Thor is the Dragon Reborn, the reincarnation of Lews Therin Telamon fated to face the Dark One at Shayol Ghul. But The Wheel of Time is not your typical Chosen One story. Min, who sees the Pattern, knew from the first book that winning the Last Battle required the ensemble cast.
 
Min’s prophecy is realized during the Last Battle as Rand, facing the Dark One, finally understands that the world’s fate wasn’t only on his shoulders--this conflict involved everyone who struggled, fought, and gave their lives for the Light.
 
 
In the books, Moiraine sought a boy of a certain age who could fit the parameters of the Prophecies of the Dragon. Rand, Mat, and Perrin were all candidates, though Rand’s point-of-view in Chapter 1 gave away the mystery. The show’s second preview suggests that Egwene and Nynaeve are under Moiraine’s consideration too. And why not? Min had the right of it: the darkness is held at bay only when they are united. Even in the books, there is no one savior. They all have a major role to play.
 
Gender essentialism is core to the books, no doubt. Souls are female or male. They channel saidar or saidin--even if they happen to occupy the body of a different sex. In the Wheel’s natural cycle of reincarnation, they are reborn within their soul’s gender. But in this turning of the Wheel, the Dragon Reborn seems to be an equal opportunity role. It’s a change that will have ripple effects. But it’s a reinterpretation of the story that is worth trying. If the show has revised the prophecies to indicate that the world’s savior isn’t necessarily male, it has made the prophecies more accurate. Rand may have confronted the Dark One in Shayol Ghul, but he did so while Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne, Mat, Perrin, and Logain united and mobilized the rest of the continent as a force for the Light in the Last Battle.
 
Logain is prominent in the show trailers. It looks like we’ll see the Aes Sedai hunting and capturing the false Dragon, and he doesn’t go down easily. It’s hard to tell if the funeral scenes we see are in the aftermath of this campaign, or a consequence of the Whitecloak witch-burning, but it clear that the show is going to show us the dangers of men channeling instead of us relying on the hearsay of Aes Sedai. From what little we’ve seen, it’s a smart choice. Álvaro Morte is a presence on screen, menacing even behind bars. Expanding his role in the early parts of the story will hammer home why false Dragons are hated and feared, and why many might consider the real Dragon not much of an improvement. I wouldn’t be surprised if, by the time Rafe Judkins adapts Lord of Chaos, the character of Mazrim Taim gets conflated into Morte’s Logain. “Asha’man, KILL!”
 

 
The visual treatment of saidin, the male half of the One Power, deviates from the book, but is more illustrative. Technically, the Dark One’s Taint (sorry, now it’s “Corruption” to spare us the jokes) lies between the channeler and saidin. The channeler reaches through the Corruption, which floods him along with the Power, but the flows themselves are not attainted. That’s great for internal narration, but when all the audience sees is the channeling, that sinister, black smoke snaking around the flows of Power is a great way to represent corrupted saidin. It also seems visually more in line with how that problem is eventually solved, in Winter’s Heart.
 

 
There are many other changes we can glean from the trailers. The Emond’s Field Women’s Circle seems to have rituals of initiation. The Aiel will battle Tam’s Illianer Companions in the Blood Snow. Moiraine will take part in Logain’s capture. The Children of the Light will pose an actual, lethal threat to Aes Sedai. Thom will play the guitar. There will be more brown eyes than blue than the books describe. But never once do the images not scream The Wheel of Time. Emond’s Field, Tar Valon, Shadar Logoth, and Fal Dara evoke their printed page counterparts in wide and focused shots. 
 
There’s no doubt the Third Age has come round again. And we'll get to re-experience it for the first time.
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    The Amazon Prime Video adaptation of The Wheel of Time is an interpretation, not a translation of the books. And that’s exciting. SPOILERS for the books and the show trailers.

MahaRaj
MahaRaj

New Character Posters Revealed

Amazon Prime revealed today, via their official social media accounts, seven new posters featuring the main characters from the upcoming Wheel of Time TV show. 
 
The seven characters featured are Moiraine, Lan, Rand, Egwene, Nynaeve, Perrin, and Mat. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Tell us what you think of the posters in the comments below. Which one is your favorite? 
 
The Wheel of Time premieres on November 19, 2021. Learn more about the show on our TV section of the website, and check out all of the officially-released media from the show. 
 
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We made a fascinating discovery: those images contained hidden layers with weaves of the One Power woven across each character. When linked together, they form a single braid. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
Well played, Amazon Marketing team, well played.  Share what you think in the comments or on our forums! 
 

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    Amazon released seven new posters featuring the main characters from season 1 of The Wheel of Time.

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

Amazon Reveals New Immersive Trailer

Amazon Prime released the latest trailer for its upcoming Wheel of Time TV show. The trailer came in a 360-degree immersive format, allowing viewers to move their phones around and "look" around in a mysterious chamber filled with clues and ominous imagery. 
 
Here's the trailer:
 

 
After you watch the trailer, check out the full video breakdown from showrunner Rafe Judkins:
 

 
For more information, including the full cast and all official images and videos, head over to our Wheel of Time TV show section of the website. Also, be sure to join us on our forums, and let us know what you think in the comments below. 
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    Amazon launched its latest trailer for the upcoming Wheel of Time TV show.

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

New Trailer arrives tomorrow!

The Wheel of Time social media accounts tweeted that we will see the full trailer tomorrow morning for The Wheel of Time. Make sure you are online at 9:00am PT so you don't miss the fun! They also released some fun new hashflags, which are emojis attached to specific twitter hashtags.
 
Along with the trailer announcement, they also posted some fun conversations between the characters. Head over to Twitter to see them all! There’s lots of fun puns and foreshadowing if you know what you are looking for.
 
The last announcement for the day also arrived on Twitter that The Dusty Wheel YouTube channel will host a live trailer watch party in partnership with The Wheel of Time. We expect to see some special guests, so it’s a don’t miss event! The Dusty Wheel will start streaming at 8:30am PT.
 
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    The Wheel of Time posted that the full trailer will premiere at 9:00am PT, tomorrow Oct 27th.

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New teaser trailer from The Wheel of Time: Moiraine’s Quest

Amazon Prime Video and The Wheel of Time social media accounts released a new one minute long teaser trailer featuring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine detailing her quest to find the Dragon Reborn.
 

There are a number of new shots from the TV show that we haven’t seen before, and it’s strongly hinted that she won’t just be looking at the three boys from The Two Rivers, but that Egwene too might be one of the candidates for the Dragon Reborn.
 

 
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of this new video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
 
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    Moiraine’s mission is to answer the question: Who is the dragon reborn?

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New Aes Sedai teaser from The Wheel of Time

Amazon revealed today, via their official social media accounts that they are starting a new series called The Wheel of Time - Explained. The first post is: What is an Aes Sedai?
 
 
This video teaser has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. In the video Rosamund Pike discusses that Aes Sedai are a group of female channelers, trained in the White Tower of Tar Valon and lead by the Amyrlin Seat.
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of this new video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
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    They are starting a new series of posts called The Wheel of Time - Explained

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Review: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Aleksandra (Ola) Hill is a Polish-Canadian writer and the founder and editor-in-chief of khōréō, a magazine of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora writers. She won the grand prize in the 2019 Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards and is currently pursuing an MFA in writing at The New School. You can find her on Twitter at @_aleksandrahill.
 
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TL;DR: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is a glorious first book in an epic historical fantasy duology. Set in 14th-century China, it brings to mind Mulan crossed with A Song of Ice and Fire. It’s perfect for fans of political intrigue, war, and a main character who strives for glory—whatever it takes.
 
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Destiny isn’t exactly a new theme in literature. Prophecies frequently figured into Greek tragedies and have been used heavily in fantasy since then, including about half a dozen different ones appearing in our beloved Wheel of Time series. Characters learning about and fulfilling their destinies, or working to “change their stars”, are common enough to risk being cliches. 
 
What I haven’t seen as much of is characters literally taking someone else’s destiny for their own. 
 
She Who Became the Sun begins with a girl, her brother, her father, and the starving village where they live. A local fortune teller tells the brother that greatness is in his future: that “his deeds will bring a hundred generations of pride to the family name.” 
 
For the girl, he sees… nothing. Just nothingness. 
 
And so, when her brother dies, she takes his fate for herself. Zhu, known only as ‘the girl’ until the moment she begins using her brother’s name, leaves the village to join a monastery as a novice using his identity and her own tenacity. Yet even climbing within the ranks of the monks proves to be insufficient to guarantee Zhu’s safety and comfort when the outside world forces its way into the monastery—and so we embark upon Zhu’s true journey towards (possible) greatness.
 
The historical setting of the novel is particularly brimming with opportunity. Taking place in 1345, when China is under Mongolian rule, the book explores two interlinked concepts of political philosophy: tiānmìng, the Mandate of Heaven, which provides the right to rule; and the Right of Rebellion, which provides moral ground for overthrowing an unjust ruler (I’ll take this opportunity to note that I’m neither a philosopher, nor political scientist, nor a scholar of Chinese history; I beg the forgiveness of those who are better versed in these subjects for any gross oversimplification!). At the beginning of the book, a descendant of Kublai Khan holds power and thus the Mandate of Heaven. While Zhu is the main character of the novel, the reader is also able to dive into a number of different points of view in the second part of the novel, including two on the Mongolian side. The first of these, Esen, is a prince and a rising star of the court thanks to Ouyang, who is a famed general, eunuch, and Esen’s best friend. Through their eyes, we see not only the Mongolians’ battle to retain power versus the rebelling Chinese, but also the smaller power struggles within a cutthroat court. 
 
On the rebel’s side, we see the world through Zhu’s eyes, as well as those of Ma, an young woman with no family who is betrothed to a rebel leader’s bumbling, inept son. While, as a reader, one naturally sides with the rebels clearly living under an oppressive rule, their own faction is rife with the same issues that plague the party in power: unchecked ambition, betrayal, and greed. 
 
The struggle for power is enriched by one of the themes running through the novel: that of identity, especially in light of gender, sex, and relationships. For one, Zhu is born a woman and lives as a man, yet gender has not—in my reading—been of particular import to them except as a tool, even though it matters so much to the society that they live in. Their relationship with Ma, who is ensnared by society in her identity as a woman, provides an additional layer of depth to Zhu’s character that had me riveted to the page. In addition, Ouyang provides a strong counterpoint and foil to Zhu’s on views of gender by his status as a eunuch, especially in light of his relationship to Esen, a man who has never had to question his identity or place in the world. In contrast, Ouyang is held in contempt by the court, considered a sort of in-between thing rather than a man. These facets of identity play off of each other, deepening the tension and raising the stakes for every scene. 
 
Importantly, this may not be an epic fantasy series in the way that readers of Jordan, Sanderson, Bardugo, and Jemisin might think of it. Specifically, there is no magic system of weaves or elements or spells; nor are there mythological creatures. Rather, the fantasy (if, indeed, it is fantasy*) comes from the personification of the Mandate of Heaven and the unquestionable existence of destiny, as well as the existence of (ancestral) ghosts. Some characters can see the dead, for example; in addition, the Mandate of Heaven is clearly visible to individuals. Zhu can also feel Heaven’s eyes on them, especially if they act outside of the character of Zhu. 
*Writing this as a non-religious Polish-Canadian scientist/writer, the existence of something like Heaven, fate, and ancestral spirits are fantasy to me—but they may be very real to others. 
 
This may be a different feeling to fantasy for many, especially when thinking of epic fantasy. There is no magic school and no focus on harnessing supernatural power in ways that you might expect. However, I never felt anything but enchanted by the world that Parker-Chan has created, both from the beauty of their writing and the sheer immenseness of the history that they have chosen to reimagine, and that’s everything that I’ve ever wanted from fantasy. Daes Dae’mar and battles like Dumai’s Wells were integral to The Wheel of Time—as are the politics and battles in this book.
 
She Who Became the Sun swallowed me whole from the very first page and didn’t let go until I emerged, blinking into the sunlight and slightly disoriented, at the end of the story. I was enthralled by Zhu as a highly flawed protagonist, enraptured by Esen and Ouyang, and enamored of Ma. Most of all, I love how unapologetically queer this book is and how deeply it explores love, sex, and gender against a truly epic backdrop. It’s one of my favourite books of the year, but I particularly recommend it to those who love political and military fantasy, alternative history, queer fantasy, and flawed protagonists. 
 
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    She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is a glorious first book in an epic historical fantasy duology. Set in 14th-century China, it brings to mind Mulan crossed with A Song of Ice and Fire. It’s perfect for fans of political intrigue, war, and a main character who strives for glory—whatever it takes.

Ola Aleksandra Hill
Ola Aleksandra Hill

Rosamund Pike To Narrate New Audiobook Version of THE EYE OF THE WORLD

Macmillan Audio announced today that Rosamund Pike, who plays Moiraine in Amazon Prime's upcoming TV show, will narrate a new version of Robert Jordan's first Wheel of Time novel, The Eye of the World. the new version will be available November 16, 2021, which is just a few days before season 1 of the TV show airs. 
 
The most well-known of version of the audiobook was recorded by the real-life husband and wife duo of Michael Kramer and Kate Reading. Prior to them, during the early 1990's, actor Mark Rolstrom recorded both an abridged and an unabridged version.
 
Long-time fans can be rest assured that the older version of the audiobook from Michael Kramer and Kate Reading will remain available along with this new version from Rosamund Pike. 
 
Here's the full tree release from Macmillan Audio:
 
 
This new version of the audiobook will be a fantastic way of helping new readers enjoy Robert Jordan's books for the first time while preserving the version already familiar to fans. Rosamund Pike is an experienced audiobook narrator with currently over a dozen titles to her name. 
 
The new audiobook can be pre-ordered here on Audible. It's also available on Libro.FM, Apple Books, Google Play Books, and more. 
 
Tell us what you think in the comments, and be sure to join us on our forums and on social media.  
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    Rosamund Pike will narrate a new audiobook version of The Eye of the World

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

GQ Article Details

GQ had released some new images and new insight into the Amazon Prime Wheel of Time television show. Senior staff writer Zach Baron shares his own journey through the realms of fantasy fiction and sums up the challenges and boons the show faces.
 

 
The obvious benefit for the show, Baron states, is it’s following in the footsteps of Game of Thrones. The HBO blockbuster opened the floodgates for demands for more fantasy. Baron says, “It's no wonder television has come to love fantasy—both are mediums without any set end, mediums that thrive on near endless renewal.” And viewers are looking for the next new world to escape into.
 

 
But there are some difficulties in producing a show of The Wheel of Time’s scope. There are book fans to placate and new fans to entice, and through it all, Rafe Judkins—the showrunner—has to play peacekeeper. Judkins says, “I say sometimes that showrunning is basically just laying your body over the show and trying to protect it as you take 10,000 swords into your back.” So far, most fans agree having the show in Judkins’s hands is a good choice.  Even Brandon Sanderson, who finished the last three novels after Robert Jordan’s death, agrees. When speaking to Baron, Sanderson said, “I basically became stepdad to millions and millions of fans,” and “[n]ow I've been able to hand that burden off to Rafe.”
 

 
Baron also recounts his visit to the filming set in 2019.  He spoke with the actors, saw the sets, observed the foundation that will be the final draft of the show.  He gives great details about the work the actors did as well as the struggles for the costume and creatures designers. You can read the full article here.
 
As the show's air date of November 19th looms closer, we're getting more and more teasers and content.  What do you want to see next?  Let us know in the comments below!
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    GQ had released some new images and new insight into the Amazon Prime Wheel of Time television show. Senior staff writer Zach Baron shares his own journey through the realms of fantasy fiction and sums up the challenges and boons the show faces.

Mashiara Sedai
Mashiara Sedai

New character and costume teaser from The Wheel of Time

Amazon revealed today, via their official social media accounts the following video:
 
 
This video has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. The tweet asked fans to share their cosplays, and likely inspired many more to come! The video features key characters including: Moiraine, Rand, Liandrin, Egwene, Lan, Perrin, Mat, Nynaeve, Logain, and a Fade. It was great to see Kate Fleetwood as Liandrin included as a key character. 
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.   And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of the costumes in todays video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums.  
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    The video today gives us a nice look at the costumes from our main cast. 

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New behind the scenes teaser from Wheel of Time

Amazon revealed today, via their official social media accounts the following video:
 
We're pulling back the fabric of the Pattern to give you a glimpse into the building of our world. #TheWheelOfTime premieres November 19th on @AmazonPrimeVideo.
This video has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. This teaser includes interviews clips from showrunner Rafe Judkins and Rosamund Pike who plays Moiraine. We also get our first glimpse of Alexander Willaume as Thom and a group of Whitecloaks. There's also an epic hair flip from Nynaeve actor Zoe Robins. 
 
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website.
 
What do you think of this new video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
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    We get a peek at some of the amazing work that went into creating the new TV show. 

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Happy Birthday Robert Jordan!

The official Wheel of Time account posted a video today in honor of Robert Jordan's 73rd birthday. 
 
 
The video features Robert Jordans, editor and widow, Harriet Mcdougal visiting production of the Wheel of Time back in fall 2019. It also features some of the cast including Madeleine Madden, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski, and Zoë Robins.
 
Robert Jordan is dearly missed by everyone here at Dragonmount. 
 
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    Robert Jordan would have been 73 years old on October 17th. 

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New Logain teaser from The Wheel of Time

Amazon revealed, via their official social media accounts the following video:
 
 
 
 
This video has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. This teaser gives us a detailed look at Alvaro Morte as Logain. Showrunner Rafe Judkins has previously discussed how Logain's role will be expanded in the first season, and many of the clips seen in this teaser hint to off-screen scenes from the books.
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.  And be sure to check our TV section of the website. 
 
What do you think of this new video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
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    Amazon reveals a teaser for everyone's favorite false dragon, Logain. 

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New Shadowspawn teaser from The Wheel of Time

Amazon revealed, via their official social media accounts our first images of trollocs and fades in a Shadowspawn focused teaser:
This video teaser has been part of a near daily marketing effort to promote the show. This is the first clear view we have of the Shadowspawn and they appear especially creepy!!
 
To see every promotional video, image, and early preview that Amazon has released so far, check out out our Season 1 Media page.   And be sure to check our TV section of the website.
 
What do you think of this new video? Let us know in the comments and be sure to join the discussion on our forums. 
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    The daily releases continue with a teaser all about Shadowspawn.

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Puzzle reveals new Wheel of Time Poster

Katy is a news contributor for Dragonmount. You can follow her as she shares her thoughts on The Wheel of Time TV Show on Instagram and Twitter @KatySedai
 


The Official The Wheel of Time social media accounts had a fun #WOTWednesday activity for fans. They dropped puzzle pieces into random folks DMs all over twitter and Instagram. They also posted some pieces to Facebook. It was the community’s job to put the puzzle together, which revealed a new poster!
Folks were sent this quote and one piece of the puzzle.
 
Twitter user Ben Mulder streamed his puzzle building on the Wot Series discord server, which had as many at 50 people watching and sharing puzzle pieces. 
The poster features Moiraine and Lan standing in Emonds Field and Moiraine appears to be holding a dead trolloc by the scruff of neck. 
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    Fans worked together to piece together the latest poster

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Amazon Premieres Clip from Wheel of Time Show

Amazon revealed today, as part of their New York Comic Con panel, a video clip from the premiere episode of their upcoming Wheel of Time TV show. Showrunner Rafe Judkins introduced the scene as an iconic moment when Moiraine Sedai (played by Rosamund Pike) first appears in the Winespring Inn.
 

 
Visit our TV show section of the website for more info including a full Season 1 cast list. 
 
What did you think of the clip? Who's ready for November 19, 2021?
 
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    Amazon premiered a clip from their upcoming Wheel of Time TV show.

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

First Single from the Wheel of Time Soundtrack Released

Composer Lorne Balfe and Amazon Prime released the first single from The Wheel of Time soundtrack today.
 
The track is called "Al'Naito" which, in the Old Tongue dictionary from the books translates roughly as "For the Flame."  The music can be heard in full here:
 

 
It can also be found on Apple Music here. 
 
Notably, the track includes lyrics from the Old Tongue, which shows an amazing level of artistry and research into the lore from the beeok series. 
 
The Wheel of Time TV show premieres on Amazon Prime on November 19, 2021. For more information about the show, visit our TV section of thr website.
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    Composer Lorne Balfe and Amazon Prime released the first single from the official Wheel of Time soundtrack. 

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

Three Actors for Season 2 Cast

Amazon Prime announced today that Ceara Coveney, Natasha O'Keeffe, and Meera Syal will join the cast for season 2 of the upcoming Wheel of Time TV show.  These actresses join Dónal Finn as the first people announced for season 2. 
 
Newcomer Ceara Coveney will play the iconic role of Elayne Trakand, the Daughter-Heir on Andor, and novice Aes Sedai. 
 

 
Ceara's official bio states:
 
 
Natasha O'Keeffe is confirmed to be playing an unspecified role in season 2. According to show runner Rafe Judkins, she will play "one of the most important characters" in the series. At this point your guess is as good as ours as to who she will play!
 

 
Natasha's bio:
 
Meera Syal is also confirmed to play an unspecified role in season 2. Like Nataha O'Keeffe, Rafe Judkins describes her role as one of the most important in the series. 
 

 
Meera's bio:
 
Who you you think Natasha O'Keeffe and Meera Syal will play?  Are you excited for Ceara Coveney to play Elayne? Let us know in the comments!
 
 
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    Ceara Coveney, Natasha O'Keeffe, and Meera Syal will join the cast for season 2 of Amazon Prime's Wheel of Time.

Jason Denzel
Jason Denzel

New Poster Revealed for The Wheel of Time

Katy is a news contributor for Dragonmount. You can follow her as she shares her thoughts on The Wheel of Time TV Show on Instagram and Twitter @KatySedai
 

 
 


There’s a new poster for the Wheel of Time TV show on Amazon Prime. The poster was released today after a small twitter contest. Fifty people won digital signed & personalized copies of the poster.
 
 
 
The new poster follows up on the previous poster which had Moiraine alone, stepping through a waygate.
 
The new poster features our first close look at shadowspawn including a myddraal and trollocs. It also features the magnificent seven, including Zoë Robins as Nynaeve, Barney Harris as Mat, Daniel Henney as Lan, Rosamund Pike as Moiraine, Madeleine Madden as Egwene, Marcus Rutherford as Perrin, and Josha Stradowski as Rand.
 
 
We also got a glimpse of another version of the poster in The Wheel of Time’s twitter banner, and from the Prime Video NL, which is the prime social media account in the Netherlands.
 
 
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    The Wheel of Time social media accounts released a new poster for the TV show.

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

New Photos from The Wheel of Time TV show

Katy is a news contributor for Dragonmount. You can follow her as she shares her thoughts on The Wheel of Time TV Show on Instagram and Twitter @KatySedai
 
 


Amazon Prime Video posted three new photos from the Wheel of Time TV show.
 
The first is of Moiraine, looking quite calm and serenely smiling at something out of the frame.
 

 
 
The second is of Lan, holding a sword with old tongue script.
 

 
 
Eagle-eyed fans figured out that the script uses the known old tongue alphabet.  It’s a quote from The Great Hunt when Moiraine meets Lord Agelmar and says “Your welcome warms me, Lord Agelmar.” It’s nice Easter egg for fans that they used the actual old tongue, although the actual translation leaves us a bit confused.
 
And finally, the best (in my opinion) for last. Rand and Egwene plus their horses, which must include Bela!!! They make such a cute couple, embracing and smiling at each other. I want to really believe their relationship in the show.
 

 
Finally, a little update on the New York Comic Con. It's this Friday Oct 8th at 2:30 pm Eastern. You can watch the livestream here. If you can't watch it live, you would need to buy a digital ticket and watch the panel up to 30 days after. Check out the incredible line up we can expect! 
 
 
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    Rand and Egwene shippers, watch out!

Katy Sedai
Katy Sedai

Adam's Wheel of Television: Recasting Mat

Adam Whitehead is Dragonmount's TV blogger. Adam has been writing about film and television, The Wheel of Time, and other genre fiction for over fifteen years, and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2020. Be sure to check out his websites, The Wertzone and Atlas of Ice and Fire (including The Wheel of Time Atlas!) as well as his Patreon.
 
News has broken that Barney Harris, who was cast as Mat Cauthon in The Wheel of Time, has been replaced for the show’s second season before the first even airs. The news took fans and commentators by surprise, since recasting a major role in a franchise is somewhat unusual, and worried others about what this means for the series. Amazon have, so far, not commented on the replacement other than acknowledging that it has taken place and Irish actor Dónal Finn will be playing the role from the second season onwards.

 
The move is not entirely unprecedented, though with other shows not based on novels the writers have more flexibility in how to proceed. When Michael O’Hare withdrew from his lead role as Commander Sinclair in classic 1990s space opera Babylon 5, the writers replaced him with another character, John Sheridan, played Bruce Boxleitner and worked the change for the benefit of the story (Sinclair’s departure became a major plot point in the third season) and the show’s marketing (Boxleitner being a much better-known actor who brought his own fanbase onboard).
 
Often replacing a lead actor happens early enough that they can reshoot all the material already completed by the original actor and the audience is none the wiser: French film actress Genevieve Bujold was cast as Captain Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, but after two days realised she couldn’t handle the rigours of American network television and stepped down. Second choice Kate Mulgrew was available to take over immediately and general audiences didn't even know a swap had taken place.
 

 
Slightly more problematic was the unaired pilot episode of Game of Thrones. Two major roles, Catelyn Stark and Daenerys Targaryen, was originally played by different actors: Jennifer Ehle and Tamzin Merchant. Both actresses gave good performances, but both had other things going on that made them reluctant to come back for the series proper: Ehle had recently become a mother and her family was based in New York. After realising the time commitment to the series for at least three years, she decided to back out. Merchant had not been excited by the script and was uncomfortable with the nude scenes in the pilot, but had been talked into doing the role because working for HBO could be good for her career. Her reluctance in the role came through in her performance and the producers agreed to let her go and recast. In both cases the replacement actors – Michelle Fairley and Emilia Clarke – became critically acclaimed in their roles and Ehle and Merchant have both gone on to success in other projects. Since HBO was deeply unhappy with the pilot and most of it had to be reshot anyway, it all worked out and casual fans were again none the wiser.
 
Recasting after a whole season is complete is less common, since simply replacing the character with a similar one is usually an easier option. Sometimes, however, the stature and importance of the character makes recasting the only option: Darrin on Bewitched, Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Becky on Roseanne all come to mind, where replacing key family members of the main character was not really viable and killing them felt a bit off-note for a sitcom.
 
Where the story is based on source material and the character is set up to play a major role further down the line, recasting becomes unavoidable. Game of Thrones became almost the king of recasting in this fashion. The Mountain was the most egregious example: Conan Stevens played the role on the first season, but bailed after being cast as an orc in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, which he felt would be better for his career (in the event, he was replaced by CGI in the films, so this also didn’t work out). He was replaced at short notice by the show's resident “tall guy” Ian Whyte in the second season and then by Icelandic actor Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson from the third season onwards.
 
More noticeable, and important for the story, was the role of Daario Naharis. He was played by British actor Ed Skrein in the third season and then Dutch actor Michiel Huisman (poaching him from Canadian SF series Orphan Black in the process) in the fourth through sixth seasons. The replacement was originally said to be down to a scheduling conflict, but Skrein later refuted this and suggested it was more down to “politics.” Skrein went on to join the Transporter franchise and play the main villain in the original Deadpool, so the move did not hurt his career.
 

 
Probably the highest-profile recent recasting was in Netflix’s telepathic SF drama Sense8. The premise of the series was that eight people in different parts of the world would become mentally linked to one another, sharing feelings and thoughts. The nature of the show made recasting impossible, so it was a major headache when Aml Ameen, who played the role of Capheus “Van Damn” Onyango, left after filming the first two episodes of Season 2. Ameen had reportedly been very happy in the first season, but came into conflict with showrunner Lana Wachowski at the table read for the second season and this problem came to a head several weeks into production. Ameen was replaced by Toby Onwumere, who reshot all of Capheus’s scenes for the second season (which, given they were shooting on location in Nairobi, Kenya, was not inexpensive). Onwumere was acclaimed in the role and has since re-teamed with Lana Wachowski with a role in The Matrix Resurrections. The nature of the dispute between Ameen and Wachowski has never been revealed.
 
The reasons for Harris’s departure are unknown and could be down to anything. Many shows have recently faced difficulties retaining cast because of the COVID19 pandemic, with delays to filming backing projects into other projects actors were already committed to. The delays have also resulted in some actors not getting paid for longer periods, or only being the paid the same for what turned out to be a twenty-month shoot as they were for a planned eight-month shoot. There are also the regular possibilities of personality clashes with other actors or crewmembers, or discomfort with the scripts, or the late-breaking realisation that staying with a project for the long haul when it's shooting overseas will mean spending effectively years away from friends and family. Further speculation, although natural, is pointless without more information, which I suspect due to NDAs and contracts will not be forthcoming.
 
Suffice to say that we hope that the situation has resolved for the best for all parties involved, and we look forward to seeing what Dónal Finn can bring to the role of Mat Cauthon in the second season when it airs in 2022. In the meantime, we have eight episodes of Barney Harris as Mat Cauthon to enjoy, starting on 19 November this year.
 
 As usual, follow our casting and news pages, and let us know what you think of the latest developments.
 
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    The news that Barney Harris has left the show and been replaced took fans and commentators by surprise, since recasting a major role in a franchise is somewhat unusual. We look at precedents and what this may mean for the series.

Werthead
Werthead