Amazon Prime has announced that Madeleine Madden (Tidelands), Zoë Robins (Power Rangers Ninja Steel), Barney Harris (Clique), Marcus Rutherford (Obey), and Josha Stradowski (Just Friends) have joined Oscar and Golden Globe nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) in Amazon’s The Wheel of Time series adaptation, based on Robert Jordan’s long-running fantasy series of 14 books so far.
Madden will play Egwene Al’Vere, Robins will play Nynaeve, Harris will play Mat Cauthon, Rutherford will play Perrin Aybara, and Stradowski will play Rand Al’Thor.
The Wheel of Time, which has sold over 90M books worldwide, is set in a sprawling, epic world where magic exists, but only women can use it. The story follows Moiraine (Pike), a member of the shadowy and influential all-female organization called the ‘Aes Sedai’ as she embarks on a dangerous, world-spanning journey with five young men and women. Moiraine believes one of them might be the reincarnation of an incredibly powerful individual, whom prophecies say will either save humanity or destroy it. The series draws on numerous elements of European and Asian culture and philosophy, most notably the cyclical nature of time found in Buddhism and Hinduism.
