WiC Weekly: July 26-August 1
By WiC Staff
This week on WiC, we pick through all the Star Wars rumors flying around, look forward to Amazon’s Wheel of Time show, preview the fall TV season, and more!
What went on in the wide world of WiC this week? Let’s find out.
Amazon is adapting Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series for TV. There’s a lot of material there, and not everything is going to make it in:
From disturbing military tactics to possible polygamy, here are some things that Amazon will probably cut from its adaptation of The Wheel of Time. https://t.co/d75VqjnAQL
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
The good news: His Dark Materials is coming back for season 2! The bad news:
His Dark Materials season 2 was going to give us a standalone episode about the adventures of Lord Asriel (James McAvoy), but it had to be cut. https://t.co/wMW06QrBmL
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
Let’s keep the bad news rolling with a note from the person who edits Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicle:
For fans of Patrick Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicle hoping that The Doors of Stone may drop soon, this doesn't sound great: https://t.co/UV8TvTIoKc
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
Okay, some good news: we have some intriguing casting information about the second season of The Witcher on Netflix:
With The Witcher getting back to work, we're seeing more audition videos. Is this a character fans recognize from the books? https://t.co/nxGYuBNzTC
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
The Walking Dead is coming back, as well, in many forms, and not all the characters will be the way you remember them:
AMC is making a bunch of Walking Dead movies all about Rick Grimes, with Andrew Lincoln back in the role. But things are going to be different: https://t.co/kyzl01QQ3r
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
Taylor Swift is a known Game of Thrones superfans, so of course people were going to go through her surprise new album looking for stuff like this:
Game of Thrones fans are convinced that Taylor Swift's new song "Mad Woman" is about the final days of Daenerys Targaryen. After listening to it, so am I: https://t.co/t08gYFLKXn
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
Another day, another wild Star Wars rumor:
We have another wild Star Wars rumor, this one about a "Lucas Cut" of The Rise of Skywalker. Why do rumors like this get so popular? We ask an academic: https://t.co/ojkQMdiE4j
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
In an exclusive interview, The Last Kingdom director Sarah O’Gorman talks to us about what it’s like being on the set of Netflix’s medieval drama:
Sarah O’Gorman is the first woman to direct an episode of Netflix’s The Last Kingdom, and she came out swinging with a huge battle scene. She talked to us about her experience: https://t.co/QwKACtyX8n
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
Did you know that Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the guy who played the Mountain on Game of Thrones, has challenged another 300-plus-pound strongman to a boxing match? The story gets stranger and stranger the more you look into it:
We have an update to this weird story about Game of Thrones star Thor Björnsson challenging another 350-plus-pound strongman to a boxing match: https://t.co/LcODkCM21u
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
There are a LOT of Star Wars shows coming to Disney+, confirmed and rumors. Let’s walk you through them:
There are 9 -- yes, NINE -- #StarWars shows either confirmed or rumored to be coming to Disney+. From an Obi-Wan Kenobi show to a Rogue One prequel, we rank 'em all by how excited we are to see 'em: https://t.co/9jE4aZP7aV
— Winter is Coming (@WiCnet) August 2, 2020
And that’s it for this week! Keep reading and watching.
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