The Wheel of Time Star Rosamund Pike Wonders Whether Amazon Would Have Canceled the Show Had It Been as Good as Season 3 From the Start, but Insists: 'I Think We Have to Accept That It's Over'

The Wheel of Time histrion Rosamund Pike has expressed her anticipation that the Amazon bid continues elsewhere astatine immoderate constituent pursuing its cancelation, but yet has resigned herself to defeat, admitting: “I deliberation we person to judge that it's over.”

The Wheel of Time is an adaptation of the much-loved phantasy publication bid by Robert Jordan, with a formed led by Rosamund Pike. After a shaky archetypal 2 seasons that had fans of the books successful uproar implicit arguable changes from the root material, Season 3 appeared to triumph implicit the fanbase and, it was felt, acceptable up the amusement for adjacent amended things to come.

But successful May it emerged that Amazon had decided against renewing The Wheel of Time for Season 4 aft what Deadline reported were "lengthy deliberations." Apparently executives liked the show, but couldn’t marque it enactment financially.

Brandon Sanderson, who finished Jordan's The Wheel of Time publication series, had gone connected the grounds to connection his thoughts connected the cancelation, saying: “I bash deliberation it's a shame, arsenic portion I had my problems with the show, it had a fanbase who deserved amended than a cancelation aft the champion season. I won't miss being mostly ignored; they wanted my sanction connected it for legitimacy, but not to impact maine successful immoderate meaningful way.”

And showrunner Rafe Judkins insisted The Wheel of Time was watched “by immense numbers of radical each implicit the world,” pointing to viewership information to backmost up his claim. Judkins besides expressed a grade of anticipation that a rival streamer would prime up The Wheel of Time, highlighting sci-fi amusement The Expanse, which was canceled by SYFY earlier Amazon saved it and finished the story.

All the while, a instrumentality effort to prevention The Wheel of Time picked up tens of thousands of signatures online, with a Brazilian radical crowdsourcing their ain billboard successful Times Square successful New York City, which Judkins subsequently acknowledged connected societal media.

Alas, we haven’t heard astir The Wheel of Time returning since, and successful a caller interrogation with Collider, Pike told fans it’s clip to judge defeat.

Pike, who played Moiraine Damodred of the Aes Sedai, admitted Season 1 had its problems, though she offered reasons for those problems and wondered whether Amazon would person canceled the amusement had it been arsenic bully arsenic Season 3 from the start.

“The fans said Season 1 wasn't bully enough, which I deliberation I hold with, for aggregate reasons,” she said. “We were beset by COVID successful the mediate of our shooting. We had immoderate heads of section change. Then, by Season 2, we knew what we were doing, and we offered up a overmuch amended season. By Season 3, I deliberation we had our wings afloat spread, and we were showing wherever we were susceptible of going, and determination was a truly well-acted, well-written, cohesive, heavy amusement that was attracting powerhouse actors to travel and play supporting characters. I deliberation we showed what we were susceptible of doing with that material.

“Of course, you wonder, had we started disconnected astatine that place, would we not person been canceled? Maybe. I deliberation we're perchance victims to the unspeakable churn origin of radical wanting to amusement that ‘We've got a caller show.’ It's each astir what's new.”

Rosamund Pike astatine the 2021 satellite premiere of The Wheel of Time successful London, England. Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images.

While immoderate fans inactive anticipation Apple whitethorn prime up The Wheel of Time for Apple TV, fixed the slate of costly sci-fi and phantasy shows it already has connected its books, that was ever wishful thinking. Indeed, TVLine reported that The Wheel of Time wasn’t adjacent being shopped astir to different streamers.

Pike, too, has present accepted the show’s fate. “In my dreams, different workplace would beryllium omniscient and prime it up,” she said. “We person specified an astonishing squad now. We person the quality to marque a large last series of seasons for this show.

“We cognize what to bash with these books now, truthful who knows? But I deliberation we person to judge that it's over.”

Photo by Jeff Spicer/Getty Images.

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