The 14 books that comprise Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time fantasy sequence have been launched over 23 years. Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming TV adaptation can’t presumably final half that lengthy, but when the present is profitable, it’s nonetheless going to be a huge time funding for each actor on board. When io9 requested star Daniel Henney—who performs the Warder Lan to Rosamund Pike’s Moiraine—why he signed on, his reply was much more… mystic than we anticipated.

Actually, we requested each Henney and Pike the identical query—what made The Wheel of Time so particular that they’ve probably obligated as much as a decade of their lives to make the present. Pike praised the particular unity between the solid members, which is truthfully a really commonplace, generic response to this form of query. But right here’s what Henney stated, and all you could know is that The Eye of the World is the primary novel within the sequence:

“Actually, this is a funny thing—I do a vision board thing if I have something in my mind, career-wise, that I’d like to reach one day. In 2011, not really knowing what the books were, I saved a picture of the cover of The Eye of the World on my phone because I saw Lan, and he was on his horse and then Moiraine next to him, I just thought, ‘I’d like to play a character like that one day.’ It’s no joke, it’s no lie, it’s just so crazy. I showed [Rosamund] the picture recently.” Pike backed him up, saying, “I was amazed! I was like, ‘Oh my goodness!’” Here’s the e book cowl, by the way in which, exhibiting Lan using beside the diminutive Moiraine:

“So it just seemed very kismet to me when the call came and we started talking,” Henney continued. “It was a no-brainer.” Or was it… prophecy?!

The Wheel of Time TV sequence premieres on Amazon Prime Video, November 19, with its first three episodes. Following episodes will likely be launched each Friday. You can learn our evaluate right here.

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