Regardless that a Season 2 launch date nonetheless eludes The Wheel of Time, Amazon isn’t losing any time shifting ahead with plans for a third season.
At San Diego Comedian-Con on Thursday afternoon, the streamer introduced that it has renewed the epic fantasy drama for a 3rd season.
“I’m so thrilled that we’ll be making a 3rd season of The Wheel of Time,” showrunner/EP Rafe Judkins mentioned in a press release. “The Shadow Rising” — which is definitely the fourth novel in Robert Jordan’s WOT saga — “has all the time been my favourite e book within the sequence, so with the ability to carry it to tv and introduce new audiences to the tales that made me fall in love with these books within the first place is such an honor, and one thing I’ve been working towards since I first pitched the present years and years in the past.”
Vernon Sanders, Amazon’s head of worldwide tv, added: “We’re so excited to dive deeper into the world of The Wheel of Time with Rafe Judkins and his workforce, who’ve completed such a wonderful job of honoring Robert Jordan’s imaginative and prescient and delivering an unimaginable viewing expertise to Prime Video prospects….. We couldn’t be happier to offer followers extra causes to be excited concerning the present and produce extra The Wheel of Time to our prospects worldwide.”
Prime Video additionally launched a BTS featurette from Season 2 (proven above), which options glimpses of Aviendha (performed by Ayoola Good) together with her fellow Maidens of the Spear, the Battle of Falme, Egwene with Rand (on the Stone of Tear?), Mat coaching with the quarterstaff, and what seems to be Padan Fain’s killing of a Myrdraal.
The Wheel of Time‘s inaugural eight-episode season concluded final December.