It seems like only yesterday that Amazon’s The Wheel of Time adaptation had its first table-read, and now it looks like season 2 is already in the works. On Wednesday, showrunner Rafe Judkins tweeted a photo of a writers’ room, captioning it, “Starting the S2 writers’ room on Wheel of Time and the Czech builders didn’t fully grasp how many whiteboards are needed to break an entire season of television. Ha.”
Starting the S2 writers’ room on Wheel of Time and the Czech builders didn’t fully grasp how many whiteboards are needed to break an entire season of television. Ha. pic.twitter.com/6nJZIsegmZ
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) November 13, 2019
Amazon has yet to make any announcements about a second season, and the official Wheel of Time Twitter account has kept quiet about the news as well. Still, while the show has yet to be officially renewed, it’s quite promising that the writers have already moved on to writing season 2.
In other Wheel of Time news, Peaky Blinders actor Daryl McCormack joined the cast on Wednesday in an undisclosed role (we’re thinking Fain or Ba’alzamon), and last week, the official WoT Twitter announced that Michael McElhatton (Roose Bolton on Game of Thrones) will be playing Tam Al’Thor.
Roose Bolton as Tam? By the time we get used to the idea…
Have they said how many episodes season 1 has? 8 and 10 seem to be popular episode counts these days.
Well, this is good!
I wonder how Amazon makes the decision that the predicted ROI is worth green lighting a season 2 when season 1 is still so early into production. I guess market hype? I’m a nerd for stats but I really would like to see those how they make those predictions
I really hope it’s good :)
DM as Ingtar is my thought.
@6 the announcement said he’ll be in three episodes in season 1. If Ingtar appears in s1 I’d think it would only be one ep or two at the most. Three could fit for Fain though – one in the Two Rivers, one either in Baerlon or Shadar Logoth (or maybe both in the same episode) and one in Fal Dara.
Daryl as Ingtar seems plausible but a little unlikely. We’d have to assume season 1 includes material from books 1 and 2. The Shienarans weren’t introduced until The Great Hunt if memory serves. Correct me if I’m wrong though. My money’s on Padan Fain.
@8 The Shienarans and Ingtar are in book 1 – Ingtar escorts the Two Rivers + Lan&Moiraine group from Fal Dara to the blight border. There’s not really enough there to fill in 3 episodes though.
Betting is on 10 episodes. Episode titles for 4 or so episodes have been released and episode 6 is a clear reference to the opening chapters of TGH (The Flame of Tar Valon).