The Dark One’s been set free and Rand needs to be protected, no matter the cost, in season two of Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time. The season two trailer teases the battle in store and advises that in order to seek the light, you must brave the dark.
Season two is based on Robert Jordan’s second novel of the series, The Great Hunt. The new season will also include bits of the third novel, The Dragon Reborn.
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) returns to lead the cast as Moiraine Damodred. Daniel Henney (Criminal Minds) stars as Lan Mandragoran, Josha Stradowski (Gran Turismo) is Rand al’Thor, Zoë Robins (Power Rangers Ninja Steel) is Nynaeve al’Meara, and Madeleine Madden (Dora and the Lost City of Gold) plays Egwene al’Vere. Marcus Rutherford (Obey) is Perrin Aybara, Dónal Finn (Rogue Heroes) stars sas Mat Cauthon, and Ceara Coveney (Young Wallander) is Elayne Trakand.
Season two premieres on September 1, 2023.
Rafe Judkins (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) adapted the series for television and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Larry Mondragon and Rick Selvage of iwot productions, Ted Field of Radar Pictures, Mike Weber, Darren Lemke, Marigo Kehoe, Justine Juel Gillmer, Sanaa Hamri, and Amanda Kate Shuman. Rosamund Pike is a co-executive producer on the Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television Studios production.
The Wheel of Time Plot, Courtesy of Prime Video:
Based on the best-selling Robert Jordan fantasy series The Wheel of Time, Rand al’Thor (Stradowski) learns he is The Dragon Reborn — a dangerous figure from history destined to save the world … or break it. Desperate to protect him from the Dark One, an army of powerful women must reckon with his burgeoning power and encroaching madness. The Wheel of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.
Though Rand thought he destroyed the Dark One, evil is not gone from the world.
In Season Two, threats, new and very old, seek out the young friends from the Two Rivers, now scattered over the world. The woman who found and guided them is now powerless to help, and so they must find other sources of strength. In each other, or themselves. In the Light … or the Dark.
