The Wheel of Time’s Showrunner Talks Future Hopes After That Blistering Season 3 Finale

The Wheel of Time‘s season three finale simply dropped on Prime Video, however we received’t be spoiling any plot factors right here. As an alternative, we’re frantically making an attempt to determine which weave will correctly channel the One Energy and convey a fourth season into existence.

It doesn’t matter what, it’ll contain showrunner Rafe Judkins, who told io9 earlier than the season started that he already is aware of how he desires to wrap up his adaptation of Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy e book sequence—with hopes of telling “the entire story.”

Now that followers have gotten to the top of season three—it’s not a spoiler to say there are some large dangling threads left after the finale—he’s revealing a bit extra about what he envisions for Wheel of Time‘s future.

Chatting with the Hollywood Reporter, Judkins admitted the finale accommodates “loads of place-setting for the subsequent season.” As of this writing, Prime Video has but to announce season 4, however Judkins already has the story wheels in movement.

“We’ve positively laid the items for a number of [villainous] Forsaken to seem in subsequent season who’re new and perhaps not so new that you’ll be excited to see on display screen,” he informed THR. “I feel I can say that a lot. The interaction of the Forsaken is actually thrilling and attention-grabbing within the books, and I feel we need to proceed that within the present and proceed to satisfy new members of this group.”

If Amazon decides it desires a fourth season—effectively, which may not be sufficient, really.

“I actually need to ship this full sequence,” Judkins mentioned “[And] Amazon [feels] like a spot the place they do need to spend money on exhibits for the long run. There’s not loads of locations doing that anymore. For Wheel of Time, it’s actually vital for us to be someplace that does need to spend money on exhibits for the long run and never only for the splash and depart. So I’m hopeful that we are going to get to complete this story. I feel it’s a narrative that in some ways is vital due to its size, and since it will get higher because it goes.”

Whereas Judkins believes “the books get higher as they go and the present is getting higher because it goes,” he’s additionally life like about being a part of the TV enterprise.

“The historical past of tv is that its power is long-form storytelling; that you simply keep it up and you’re keen on these characters and also you comply with them via 60 to 100 hours … So I’m eager for our trade that exhibits like Wheel of Time do get to inform the entire story. I feel it’s vital for tv. It’s what we do greatest and so we ought to be ending these tales.”

The Wheel of Time seasons 1-3 at the moment are streaming on Prime Video.

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