Editor’s Note: these interviews took place prior to the Hollywood actors’ strike, which began on July 14.
The Wheel of Time According to the cast of the series, season 3 still has a long way to go before it is ready to air on Prime Video.
Spoke exclusively to TechRadar on The Wheel of Time During the season 2 junket in late June, Josha Stradowski and Daniel Henney revealed that there was a lot more filming of the next episode of the high fantasy show.
In October 2022, Amazon Studios announced it would create a third season of its hit TV series, even though Season 2 wouldn’t debut on the primary streaming service for another eleven months. Clearly, Amazon is still confident The Wheel of Timeeven if it is somewhat overshadowed by the fantasy stakes The rings of powerPrime Videos Lord of the Rings prequel series.
Unfortunately, the chance is up The Wheel of Time season 3 coming to one of the world’s top streaming services in the near future is essentially zero. Filming did not begin until April 2023 (per WoTseries.com) and thanks to the ongoing actors’ strike, production on the show’s next episode was halted in mid-July.
But before that industrial action started, I had the opportunity to ask Stradowski and Henney, who play Rand al’Thor and al’Lan Mandragoran on the show, how much of Season 3 was in the can. Understandably, the pair were hesitant to reveal too much, but they did provide some clues as to how much work had been done.
“I was on set yesterday (June 26),” Stradowski told me on June 27. “Now that everything (the 2023 writers’ strike, which has been resolved) is going on, I’m very grateful to be in a position where I can be creative. But yeah, Season 3, we’re still working on it. We have the lines were drawn with seasons 1 and 2, and now I feel like we can really explore this world, throw some color into it and turn it into something great.”
“Filming has started,” Henney added on the same date. “We had the scripts ready (before the writers struck), so we were one of the lucky shows they had locked down. As of now, we’re still filming and were able to get a lot of it done. But we’ll need to see what happens along the way.”
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It’s hard to say when principal photography will start again The Wheel of Time season 3. At the time of writing, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) are in talks to try to find a solution to the strikes. Per DeadlineThese conversations started on Monday, October 2, with a new round of discussions on October 4. Once all parties have agreed to a new deal, SAG-AFTRA members, including The Wheel of Time‘s cast can get back to work.
Likewise, it’s difficult to determine how much time it will take to shoot the rest of Season 3. Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, the show’s first season took 18 months to film. Meanwhile, season 2’s trouble-free production meant filming was completed in just seven months. If the aforementioned report from Wotseries.com is to be believed, season 3 has spent six months in full production, although almost three of those have remained in limbo due to the writers and actors’ strikes.
In short: don’t expect it The Wheel of Time Season 3 won’t be with us until late 2024 at the earliest. But with The rings of power With season 2, which will likely be released next year, we may not see Stradowski, Henney and company return to our screens until 2025 in one of the best Prime Video shows.