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Amazon's Wheel of Time Production |OT|
- Thread starter MadLaughter
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Nynaeve casting
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Nice!
Hopefully this kid is a good actor. Rand is a very internal and hard character to play.
Ooh, perrin and nynaeve are great.
I still think the show will be a trainwreck, but I would love to be wrong.
I still think the show will be a trainwreck, but I would love to be wrong.
i don't know what to expect of this...I am bigger fan of WoT than the Sword of Fire and Ice, but I think it will be even tougher to bring to TV, considering it is longer and has larger scale content with a lot more spectacle
Mat Cauthon casting
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Really hype for Egwene bring it on!
They do this WoT wednesday thing every month so we kind of expected something. They announced Rosamund Pike the same way.
Egwene casting
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Love Egwene, total badass by the end of the series.
Wanna see Lan's casting.
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Good, I'm tired of adding threadmarks and editing the title
(JK lol)
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I'm only 3 books in and all I'm sitting here wondering is who plays Padan Fain and who plays Thom.
Visually, this is perfect to me.
Man, I'm so happy to see so many PoC in huge roles. This is awesome. :D
okay, i am fine with these. Ethnicity / colour is something which is fairly harmless to tweak in the series. There is quite a lot of cultural diversity anyway...much more central than in Martin's books at least.
i am hoping they don't mess with core aspects of the story, however. there is a lot you can chop, but not much that is in should be changed in terms of character development and overall story beats.
i am hoping they don't mess with core aspects of the story, however. there is a lot you can chop, but not much that is in should be changed in terms of character development and overall story beats.
You know normally when these swaps happen, generally in a modern setting, I dont even blink. Or even if they were characters from more metropolitan areas of the world, no issues. But the Two Rivers is supposed to be largely isolated for like... generations. I'd expect a rural community in a medieval setting with little to no cultural exchange outside of the region to not be terribly diverse.
This should really have been animated.
There is no way they will be able to do this justice. Even the battle in just the first book is probably crazier than the biggest battle in Thrones and that was ridiculously expensive. And that is just the first book and things explode from there.
There is no way they will be able to do this justice. Even the battle in just the first book is probably crazier than the biggest battle in Thrones and that was ridiculously expensive. And that is just the first book and things explode from there.
I get that. But I don't think Nynaeve, Perrin and Egwene's ethnicity matters as much in terms of story as say Rand's. We could just assume that their parents migrated to the Two Rivers a long, long time ago and leave it at that. It's not going to change the story in any way...
If this was not done, then all the main characters would once again be all white like GOT. I think a little diversity is needed in the fantasy genre and these are the characters where the changes could be made without it affecting the story all that much.
i agree, not sure how they are going to do this. Maybe bezos personal shilling?
as for ethnicity in the two rivers. why not just make their colour related to Manetharen or whatever. Still it certainly makes Rand stand out even more...but it is not like he looked like two rivers folk at all anyway.
Holy shit these all look like pretty great choices just visually speaking.
I agree, but I'll be happy with whatever they do. The dream would be the Avatar Last Airbender studio doing an animated series, but I'm happy the stories are getting told at all. I think the books need the mother of all edits anyways, so I'm happy to see how they cut the fat with live action instead of going with another format known for filler and fluff like animated series.
I agree, but I'll be happy with whatever they do. The dream would be the Avatar Last Airbender studio doing an animated series, but I'm happy the stories are getting told at all. I think the books need the mother of all edits anyways, so I'm happy to see how they cut the fat with live action instead of going with another format known for filler and fluff like animated series.
In my mind I can see each of these actors as their respective characters, so this is some great casting imo.
I don't disagree with diversity being needed in the fantasy genre and would never argue against it. I'm hopeful if Stormlight Archive gets on the ground they don't white wash it. But given that Rand's heritage is openly supposed to be partially foreign and the difference in his appearance from the rest of the Two Rivers folk says to me they should have gone harder on skin tone with Rand, not everyone else.
The degree to which the Two Rivers has been isolated does play heavily into the story.
Edit: hold up, Madeleine Madden is indigenous Australian? I honestly didn't get that from the b&w photo. I think I misinterpreted what was happening here. The Two Rivers in general looks to be darker skinned. This makes a LOT more sense. A bit confused on Mat, tho. Can't find info on the actor.
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If you wanted for them to go with isolated, effectively only marrying withing their area, you'd be looking at very brown people then. The Two Rivers is based around the idea of Charleston, SC which is a pretty heavy mix of black and white. The books imply that the first age is now. Take into it that the area was isolated only after the age of legends, which was far from isolationist, and you'd have either a reasonably diverse group or some very brown people.