Rafe Judkins: Last News

“The Wheel of Time” isn’t going anywhere. The Prime Video fantasy saga, based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling novels, has been renewed for a third season, it was announced Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con.

Isabella Bucceri (Finally Me, Everything in Between), Nukâka Coster-Waldau (Thin Ice, Anori), Salóme Gunnarsdóttir (The Lazarus Project, Justice League), Björn Landberg (Galileo Mystery, Unter uns), and Synnøve Macody Lund (Ragnarok, Saw X) have joined the cast of Prime Video‘s fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time, starring Rosamund Pike, Madeleine Madden and Josha Stradowski.

Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated actor Shohreh Aghdashloo has joined the Season 3 cast of Prime Video‘s fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time, starring Rosamund Pike, Madeleine Madden and Josha Stradowski.

The Wheel of Time is officially returning for a third season at Prime Video, and its premiere date has been revealed!

Prime Video has unveiled the first footage and premiere date for Season 3 of fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time. The upcoming season will launch globally on Prime Video on March 13, the streamer revealed during the show’s panel Saturday at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The “God of War” TV series adaptation at Amazon has found its new showrunner. Variety has confirmed that Ronald D. Moore has boarded the show as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: With Ronald D. Moore back in the Sony Pictures TV Studios fold, the prolific creator/showrunner is taking on a high-profile IP for the studio. He has been tapped as writer, executive producer and showrunner of Sony TV and Amazon MGM Studios’ Prime Video series God Of War, based on PlayStation‘s hugely popular ancient mythology-themed video game.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures TV and Amazon MGM Studios are staging a do-over on God of War, the series for Prime Video that’s based on PlayStation‘s hugely popular ancient mythology-themed video game.

The Deadline Studio at Prime Experience, featuring interviews with the cast and creatives from some of Prime Video‘s buzziest TV programs in the awards-season race, recently wrapped its run on the sidelines of Prime Video’s FYC event.

Christopher Vourlias When the creative team behind Prime Video’s splashy fantasy series “The Wheel of Time” began scouring the globe for locations five years ago, it ran into a problem not uncharacteristic of that period of peak TV: It was all but impossible to find a production hub that could both accommodate the show’s sprawling footprint and meet its exacting technical requirements, with studios from Atlanta to London to Budapest booked year-round. The producers ultimately chose the Czech Republic, a country with a rich cinematic history, a competitive 20% cash rebate, skilled crews and a reputation for servicing foreign blockbusters at a fraction of Hollywood or U.K.

The creator of The Wheel of Time is promising some unprecedented television when the adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fantasy series returns to Prime Video soon for a third season.

Prime Video has set September 1 for the Season 2 premiere of fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time. We’re also getting a first look at the second season in some new images released today.

Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time has cast Danish model-actress Maja Simonsen, Icelandic actress and former Olympic swimmer Ragga Ragnars, Irish actor Jay Duffy and New Zealand singer, actress and comedian Rima Te Wiata in recurring roles for the hit fantasy drama’s upcoming second season. The announcement was made during today’s virtual panel at JordanCon.

Amazon is heading to ancient Greece with the streaming service issuing a straight-to-series order for a TV series based on the beloved God of War video game series.The announcement (via Amazon press release) on Wednesday comes months after Deadline reported Amazon was in negotiations for the live-action series.The show will hail from writers Rafe Judkins (The Wheel of Time), Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Iron Man, Children of Men) based on the long-running PlayStation video game franchise. New series: Amazon is heading to ancient Greece with the streaming service issuing a straight-to-series order for a TV series based on the beloved God of War video game series Negotiations: The announcement (via Amazon press release) on Wednesday comes months after Deadline reported Amazon was in negotiations for the live-action seriesThe series follows Kratos, the God of War, who, after exiling himself from his blood-soaked past in ancient Greece, hangs up his weapons forever in the Norse realm of Midgard. When his beloved wife dies, Kratos sets off on a dangerous journey with his estranged son to spread her ashes from the highest peak - his wife's final wish.  Kratos soon realizes the journey is an epic quest in disguise, one which will test the bonds between father and son, and force Kratos to battle new Gods and monsters for the fate of the world.

Prime Video has given a series order to God of War, based on PlayStation’s hugely popular ancient mythology-themed video game. Co-produced by Sony Pictures Television and Amazon Studios in association with PlayStation Productions, God of War will premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The series had been in the works at the streamer since March when Deadline reported exclusively that Prime Video was in negotiations for the property.

Moiraine Damodred and the One Power continues.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Wheel of Time” has been renewed for Season 3 at Amazon, Variety has learned.The announcement was made as part of the show’s panel presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. It was also made ahead of the second season premiere of the fantasy series, which does not yet have a premiere date.

Ayoola Smart, who has featured in Killing Eve, is joining the cast of Amazon’s The Wheel of Time.

EXCLUSIVE: PlayStation’s flagship action-adventure franchise God of War is heading to television. Prime Video is in negotiations for a live-action TV series based on the hugely popular ancient mythology-themed game, sources said.

EXCLUSIVE: The Wheel of Time boss Rafe Judkins has revealed how the Amazon drama series will handle the recasting of core character Mat Cauthon from Barney Harris to Dónal Finn in Season 2. Deadline confirmed in September that Harris was departing after the first season of the series, which scored a Season 2 renewal ahead of its November 19 premiere.

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