The Wheel of Time Season 3 will elevate the show after a wild ending to Season 2. The successful Amazon Prime Video series finished its second season by setting up several characters and stories for Season 3. The sophomore run ended with the reunion of the Ta’veren, the death of Ishamael, and the arrival of a dangerous antagonist. Amid the ongoing battle between light and dark, it seems like the characters will have a fresh start in Season 3.
Plot And Cast of Wheel of Time Season 3
The showrunner Rafe Judkins confirmed that Season 3 will mainly focus on The Shadow Rising arc of the texts. In October 2023, Judkins told Entertainment Weekly, “Are there any Forsaken hiding in our world that we’re meeting in season three? In the books, each of them appears in their own way that’s unique to that Forsaken. And so it’s a really fun thing to unravel in the show because they’re almost like representatives of these different versions of evil. Moghedien’s fun because she is not driven by love in the way that Lanfear and Ishamael are, and she is a much more dangerous character because of that.”
Here is the list of expected cast members of Wheel of Time Season 3:
- Rosamund Pike – Moiraine Damodred
- Daniel Henney – Lan Mandragoran
- Zoë Robins – Nynaeve al’Meara
- Madeleine Madden – Egwene al’Vere
- Josha Stradowski – Rand al’Thor
- Marcus Rutherford – Perrin Aybara
- Dònal Finn – Mat Cauthon
- Ceara Coveney – Elayne Trakand
- Natasha O’Keeffe – Lanfear
- Laia Costa – Moghedien
- Mina Rahoney – Marin al’Vere
- Kae Alexander – Min Farshaw
- Hammed Animashaun – Loial
- Priyanka Bose – Alanna Mosvani
- Jennifer Cheon Garcia – Leane Sharif
- Kate Fleetwood – Liandrin Guirale
- Johann Myers – Padan Fain
- Taylor Napier – Maksim
- Meera Syal – Verin Mathwin
- Jay Duffy – Dain Bornhald
- Lindsay Duncan – Anvaere Damodred
- Ayoola Smart – Aviendha
When Will It Come Out?
The Wheel of Time showrunner Rafe Judkins shared an official statement, “I’m so thrilled that we’ll be making a third season of ‘The Wheel of Time’. The Shadow Rising has always been my favorite book in the series, so being able to bring it to television and introduce new audiences to the stories that made me fall in love with these books in the first place is such an honor, and something I’ve been working toward since I first pitched the show years and years ago.”
During the show’s NYCC panel, Rafe Judkins clarified via IGN, that the scripts of all episodes of Season 3 had already been written before the Hollywood strike began in May. The showrunner pointed out, “We were very lucky that we had eight scripts before we started so we were able to keep going,” Kehoe said. “And the production team was unbelievable. Cast-wise, they’re on Equity contracts, not SAG contracts, so they were contracted and able to work. We’re one of the very few shows, I think, that was able to keep going. We really were lucky, and I’m just very grateful for the huge team of people, the crew because it’s been so tough for everybody.”
In June 2023, Lan (Daniel Henney) told Techradar, “Filming has begun. We had the scripts done [before the writers strike], so we were one of the lucky shows that had them locked. As of right now, we’re still shooting and we were able to get a good chunk of it done. But we’ll have to see what happens down the road.”
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