SpaceChampion Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 (edited) Olivia Williams seen filming on set with Shohreh Aghdashloo, so most probably cast as Queen Morgase Trakand. Edited December 6, 2023 by SpaceChampion Corvinus85, Poobah, Myrddin and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 Ah, I love Olivia Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 6, 2023 Share Posted December 6, 2023 I still rate Olivia Williams for spoofing the hell out of her Sixth Sense appearance just a few months after the movie came out (and well before Pegg, Frost and Wright were as mega-famous as they became). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 I’m a big fan of Olivia Williams. That works for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 Great casting. Here's hoping Morgase's storyline gets improved for the show. I was not a fan of how RJ handled her in the books. Myrddin and Durckad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakasi Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 It’s astounding how many A list actors they’ve gotten for this show. I do think partly they’ve realized with post Covid landscape and cost of special effects that they can’t really reproduce the immense scope of the novels. So they’re going to lean into the characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fionwe1987 Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 I wonder if it may also be what Rosamund Pike said in an interview, that a lot of female actors are seeing a chance for meaty roles in a world and story where the female perspective is centered. That's gotta be somewhat novel, I'd imagine. Poobah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 7, 2023 Share Posted December 7, 2023 I think it might also be more that Rosamund probably knows a lot of these actresses and her star firepower is enough to get many of them to sign up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakasi Posted December 14, 2023 Share Posted December 14, 2023 So 3 prequel movies set in the age of legends. So it’s good the show and universe is getting more money and investment but they need to keep pushing the main series too. I guess overal this is good because it shows Amazon is committed but it does seem to stink of the over saturation other franchises have fallen prey to recently. So overall slightly positive for me but some concerns on splitting focus. SpaceChampion, Derfel Cadarn, Wouter and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrddin Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 This bodes well for the OG show continuing to the end, I guess. As long as the prequels don't screw the darkpooch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caligula_K3 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Not sure I really needed the prequel movies, as much as I've loved the Foresaken actors so far. I ran late on watching Season 2, but I really liked it and thought it was a huge improvement over the first. Not everything worked (Lan moping, some of the Perrin stuff, Lan moping), but in general they did a much better job defining the Two Rivers characters. The Seanchean were appropriately horrifying, and most importantly, they made the Foresaken into great villains. Every scene with Ishamael and Lanfear was excellent. My only hope is that they bring the Ishamael actor back for the main show when he gets reincarnated - he was so good. I'm very excited for Season 3, especially with all these great actors being hired. Arakasi and Wouter 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 On 12/14/2023 at 5:04 PM, Arakasi said: So 3 prequel movies set in the age of legends. So it’s good the show and universe is getting more money and investment but they need to keep pushing the main series too. I guess overal this is good because it shows Amazon is committed but it does seem to stink of the over saturation other franchises have fallen prey to recently. So overall slightly positive for me but some concerns on splitting focus. Amazon has nothing to do with the movies. This is Iwot - a rebranded Red Eagle - doing their own thing within a very narrow parameter of rights they control. They seem to have hired a director without actually getting a funding deal from a studio or streamer, which is...bold of them. Also precedented: they previously contracted Obsidian to make a Wheel of Time video game without actually having a funding agreement (they seemed to not realise that a WoT video game from a reliable producer like Obsidian would cost ~$20 million at the bare minimum), then shot down Electronic Arts when they offered to fund the game in return for IP rights, despite that being 100% standard procedure in development. Arakasi, IlyaP, Which Tyler and 2 others 1 1 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 Ah yes the leeches that won't go away. Will Billy Zane return as Ishamael? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted December 15, 2023 Share Posted December 15, 2023 (edited) Yeah kinda reads like another "hold on to the rights" project that's likely to fizzle out. Edited December 15, 2023 by Poobah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IlyaP Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 5 hours ago, Werthead said: They seem to have hired a director without actually getting a funding deal from a studio or streamer, which is...bold of them. Also precedented: they previously contracted Obsidian to make a Wheel of Time video game without actually having a funding agreement (they seemed to not realise that a WoT video game from a reliable producer like Obsidian would cost ~$20 million at the bare minimum), then shot down Electronic Arts when they offered to fund the game in return for IP rights, despite that being 100% standard procedure in development. I'm sorry, what? Obsidian almost made a Wheel of Time game? Can...can we please get them back on the phone? I really really really want Obsidian to make a WoT RPG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 1 hour ago, IlyaP said: I'm sorry, what? Obsidian almost made a Wheel of Time game? Can...can we please get them back on the phone? I really really really want Obsidian to make a WoT RPG. Yeah, that was a weird one. Red Eagle went to Obsidian and asked if they'd want to make a WoT RPG. They said sure, but obviously they'd need funding. Red Eagle didn't have that money to hand and went to Electronic Arts. EA said sure they'd fund development, but in return they'd want the full video game IP rights to the franchise, which would be standard, with some kind of reversion clause (so if the RPG did poorly, EA could walk away and x years later the rights would return to Red Eagle). For some reason this was unacceptable to Red Eagle, so they said no. So we could have had an Obsidian-made, EA-funded WoT game probably back around 2016-17 or so, but Red Eagle couldn't deliver the deal. For a rights-handling company, Red Eagle have done a spectacularly and consistently poor job of handling the rights, even to their own advantage. IlyaP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 16, 2023 Author Share Posted December 16, 2023 How did these clowns ever talk Harriet into signing over the rights?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derfel Cadarn Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 13 minutes ago, SpaceChampion said: How did these clowns ever talk Harriet into signing over the rights?? I think it was Robert Jordan who sold the rights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pellert Posted December 16, 2023 Share Posted December 16, 2023 I don’t know how to post pictures (is it possible?) or link something from an IG post, but the WoT instagram have just now posted a picture behind the scenes pic of the Emondsfield Five, where Mat has only one eye. Don’t know what to make of that… Are they just scrapping the return to Tower of Ghenjei and wraps up that full arc in one visit..? Hmm.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted December 17, 2023 Author Share Posted December 17, 2023 (edited) I couldn't find the instagram post but here is the photo on twitter Edited December 17, 2023 by SpaceChampion Wouter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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