I hope Rafe Judkins doesn't pull a Miles Millar and make the kids from Emond's Field look like the Power Rangers, like Millar did in the casting of Shanarra Chronicles TV show. It sounds like Rafe would like to make the Third Age look more like the Woke Age? Where societies and nations are painted with a modern brush, so that cultures in WoT look more Heterogenous with modern sensabilities, just like the world we live in today, but without the cars...

Will they cast big stars, newcomers or both? In that Rand and his friends are teenagers, I expect a lot of newcomers. This series could go on for 10 years, they can't cast someone in their late 20's for the part if they will be close to 40 at the end of the series. I expect Moraine and Lan will be big movies stars, but Rand, Perrin, Mat and Ewgene may be newcomers.