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However, news on the series has been relatively quiet. There have been no trailers, and only two very small teases up to now. The cast for Wheel of Time includes Rosamund Pike as Moiraine, Josha Stradowski as Ran al’Thor, Marcus Rutherford as Perrin Aybara, Zoe Robins as Nynaeve al’Meara, Barney Harris as Mat Cauthon, Madeline Madden as Egwene al’Vere, Daniel Henney as Lan Mandragoran, and Michael McElhatton as Tam al’Thor. We have been given small glimpses of Pike and Henney in character, but so far nothing on the others. With the new teaser arriving, perhaps we are not too far away from seeing a full trailer for the series.
The Wheel of Time has a number of parallels with A Song of Ice and Fire, or the Game of Thrones saga, if you prefer. The story is set in a place where “The Breaking of The World” has occurred, an almost apocalyptic event that she had turned the magic of male users sour. A user of magic named Moiraine comes across a group of teenagers in an isolated part of the world and believes that one of them could be a reincarnation of the Dragon, said to be destined to be the savior of the world or its destroyer.
Robert Jordan began writing the series in 1984, although the first book would not be published until 1990, and continued up to the time of his death in 2007, when Brandon Sanderson took over to complete the saga using the outlines and notes left by the late author. While there are many themes and settings that are similar to the work of George R R Martin, there are many fans of A Song of Ice and Fire that are hoping that last bit does not come to be another mirroring event between the two.
As an additional bonus, they also can avoid the kind of controversy that Game of Thrones drew by having to develop its ending without Martin’s text as a guide. Like many others, we await more word on when the series will begin, but it looks like the wheel will begin to turn in just a few short months’ time.
