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«The Wheel of Time» is an American epic fantasy series on Amazon Prime, that is based on Robert Jordan’s novel series of high fantasy,

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The Wheel of Time is an American epic fantasy television series.
It was released through Amazon Prime Video.
The series is based on Robert Jordan’s novel series of the same name.
It is produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios.
Rafe Judkins serves as showrunner.
The first season, consists of eight episodes.
It premiered on Prime Video on November 19, 2021.
The first three episodes were released immediately and the remaining five on a weekly basis after that, culminating in the season finale on December 24, 2021.
The series was renewed for a second season in May 2021, before the series premiered.
In 2000, NBC optioned the screen rights to Robert Jordan’s fantasy novel series The Wheel of Time but did not ultimately proceed with the production.
In 2004, Jordan sold the film, television, video game, and comic rights to the series to production company Red Eagle Entertainment.
In 2015, Red Eagle Entertainment paid air time to cable network FXX to air Winter Dragon, a 22-minute pilot for a potential The Wheel of Time series starring Billy Zane and Max Ryan that allowed Red Eagle to hold on to the rights to the project.
Subsequently, the company sued Jordan’s widow, Harriet McDougal, for her comments about the pilot.
The lawsuit was settled in 2016.
In April 2016, McDougal announced that a major studio was undergoing contract negotiations for production on a TV series.
On January 12, 2022, Balfe confirmed that he would be returning to score Season 2.
In early 2020, Julian Perry was attached to the series as Overall Visual Effects Supervisor.
Special effects company Cinesite was revealed to be working on the visual effects of the series in April 2020.
Additional VFX work was done by MPC Episodic, Outpost VFX, Automatik VFX, Union VFX, RISE, DNEG, Framestore, Scanline, Zelda VFX and Ombrium VFX.
In an interview, Perry discussed how the challenging nature of the show and a more limited post-production period resulting from the 2020 production halt required them to work with a large number of VFX studios to “help spread workload”.
Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” book series has 2782 named characters,
The “Wheel of Time” novel series is a full 14 books, with the final 3 having been completed by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. Robert Jordan (real name, James Oliver Rigney Jr.) died in 2007 and left a final, unfinished manuscript that Sanderson then split into 3 books. The final novel, “A Memory of Light,” was released in 2013
Production for Season 2 was green-lit while Season 1 was still in post production.
The first season will cover the events of the first book in the series, “The Eye of the World.”
In the world of The Wheel of Time, magic is called “The One Power,” and is drawn from something called, “The True Source.” It has a male half, Saidin, and a female half Saidar. In a past, the male half of the One Power was corrupted, and any man capable of wielding it would go mad. Therefore, at the start of the story, it is only the female Aes Sedai who are able to open use magic.
After the release of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books the Lord of the Rings, there was a huge increase in novels attempting to recapture the magic Tolkien’s book series had offered. Most, though, were criticized for being too similar to the original work of the Lord of the Rings. When the Wheel of Time was originally released, though it was heavily influenced, Jordan was praised for having managed to create a work that was evocative, but particularly distinct and original in its own way.
The first four episode titles were released via a tweet from showrunner Rafe Judkins. They are: “Leavetaking,” “Shadow’s Waiting,” “A Place of Safety” and “The Dragon Reborn.”
According to showrunner, Rafe Judkins, the character of Logain is set to have an expanded role in the series.
Originally intended to be produced by Universal and Red Eagle for a cinematic adaptation in 2009, but was acquired by Amazon Studios and therefore postponed.
The character Mat Cauthron, played by Barney Harris will be recast in season 2. Actor Donal Finn will be replacing him. No information has been given for recasting