Showrunner Rafe Judkins previews his TV take on Robert Jordan’s best-selling novel series, starring Rosamund Pike.
The Wheel of Timealso differentiates itself from those other big-name franchises in the way it highlights its female characters.
“These are women doing jobs.
The cast of ‘The Wheel of Time’.Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
They’re taking care of the governance; they’re taking care of healing.”
They leave with her on a journey that will either save or destroy humanity."
That scenario might be a bit more than a hypothetical.
‘The Wheel of Time’ characters Egwene al’Vere (Madeleine Madden) and Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) have known each other their whole lives in the village of Two Rivers, but now find themselves bound together on a globe-trotting quest.Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
“That’s where it becomes very clear it’s not just the forces of good and evil.
There are lots of different angles.”
Judkins hopes to explore all those angles as his drama expands beyond Jordan’s firstWoTbook.
Logain (Álvaro Morte) is a man capable of using magic and thinks that makes him a king. The Aes Sedai, a female-only mystic order, disagree.Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
To accomplish that goal, he’s relying on the author’s celebrated world-building.
“If I can successfully do that, the story and the characters will sell themselves.”
A version of this story appears in the September issue ofEntertainment Weekly, on newsstands Friday.
Lan (Daniel Henney) protects Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) from the darkness of Shadar Logoth in Amazon’s ‘The Wheel of Time’ series.Jan Thijs/Amazon Studios
