The Wheel of Time, Amazon Prime Video's fantasy series based on the novels of Robert Jordan, has been renewed for a third season.
Announced during The Wheel of Time: Origins panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Amazon also unveiled a behind the scenes look at the upcoming Season 2 – though this remains without a release date.
"I’m so thrilled that we’ll be making a third season of The Wheel of Time,” said executive producer and showrunner Rafe Judkins. "The Shadow Rising has always been my favourite book in the series, so being able to bring it to television and introduce new audiences to the stories that made me fall in love with these books in the first place is such an honour, and something I’ve been working toward since I first pitched the show years and years ago."
The Shadow Rising is the fourth book in The Wheel of Time series and, though it seems like a bit of a jump, the first season did pull parts of the third book to go alongside the original.
"We couldn’t be happier to give fans more reasons to be excited about the show and bring more The Wheel of Time to our customers worldwide," added Vernon Sanders, Amazon Studio's head of global television.
Despite the Season 3 announcement feeling a little preemptive given that Season 2 is yet to be released, Amazon did the same thing previously when it confirmed a second season before the first was even released. It's made its eagerness to delve deep into The Wheel of Time world clear, however, saying that it wants to eventually get through all 14 books and the prequel.
In our 9/10 review of Season 1, IGN said: "Amazon Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time provides an excellent adaptation of the Robert Jordan series that could be a true successor to Game of Thrones."
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.