It’s Wheel of Time Wednesday, and this week, the Wheel of Time show is offering up a first look at the heron mark blade! On Twitter, the show shared a nifty little video tracing the evolution of the sword from page to concept to set, as the blade rests in an autumn wood full of golden leaves.
Crafting the blade. #WOTonPrime pic.twitter.com/fD4X9n7Ocn
— The Wheel of Time (@WOTonPrime) December 2, 2020
The heron mark indicates that a sword is the weapon of a Blademaster—a fact that Rand al’Thor doesn’t exactly know when he first acquires his signature blade from his father Tam.
“I got it a long time ago,” Tam said, “a long way from here.”
— The Wheel of Time (@WOTonPrime) December 2, 2020
At the end of November, a local newspaper reported that The Wheel of Time would be filming this week in Segovia, Spain, at the Alcázar de Segovia palace, rumored to be a stand-in for the palace in Caemlyn. Earlier in November, production reportedly shut down due to the pandemic.
The production has been teasing fans with the tiniest of tidbits: a bit of the score one month, a quick peek at the set another. The last round of casting news came in August, with the addition of Sophie Okonedo as Siuan Sanche, Kae Alexander as Min, Clare Perkins as Kerene Sedai and Peter Franzen as Stepin, her Warder.
Showrunner Rafe Judkins answered questions on Twitter following the reveal of the heron mark blade, including one that should soothe anyone concerned about divergences from the book:
What's really important to me is that when we're diverging from the books, that we KNOW we're doing it. So, every piece of production design from shoes to swords to the White Tower itself begins with pages of quotes from the books about that place/thing…
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
The designer then takes it from there to build something that makes sense in our world, with our production concerns, our cast, our aesthetic, etc. But at the end of the day, it all stems from that first document and it's something we can always go back to
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
Other production specific questions follow:
You can not even imagine the number of hours that goes into each person's weapon. I was in at least 20 meetings about the dagger that Egwene has, and that's not even a major weapon in the books. There's a whole team of people (and we have a few BIG book fans on the props team)…
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
many, many different styles
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
Yes. Our costume team, lead by the amazing Isis Mussenden, started by building a map of the entire Wheel of Time world, carving out what each nation/culture looked like to make sure they're differentiated (and honoring what's in the books) and then diving back into Two Rivers
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
I want things to be as real as possible, so in any place that we possibly can, we've built things instead of trusting to effects. Our show could be all green screen, all CGI, but I think you'll be surprised by how much of it was actually built, and touched and held by our actors
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
Of course! An amazing team has been picking up as much as they can of the process so that after the show's aired you can see all the work and love that went into creating these details large and small :)
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
We're approaching this as an adaptation of the entire series, not just each book individually, so hopefully Season One will feel more like the entire book series of Wheel of Time than it does like Eye of the World. With that in mind — no Moiraine staff. Let chaos ensue, ha.
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
We have a fight time and swordmaster on the show who has built a fighting style unique to each weapon and culture. So, if you see a Borderlander fight with a heron mark blade it may feel different than a Seanchan. That's merely hypothetical of course ;)
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
When the books came out they felt so blazingly fresh and different and new, so we want that same thing to be true of the show, and if you see us leaning away from certain elements in the books, often times it's because audiences have now seen them before!
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
This is not music from the show itself. When it is, I'll make sure you know it, and it will hopefully feel very uniquely "Wheel of Time" :)
— Rafe Judkins (@rafejudkins) December 2, 2020
These are some exciting damn answers. Our fingers remain crossed that the show will arrive in 2021.
The Link LonkDecember 03, 2020 at 01:59AM
https://www.tor.com/2020/12/02/check-out-the-wheel-of-time-tv-shows-heron-mark-blade-and-learn-how-it-was-made/
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