I think Dr Strange laid down a good foundation for how it should look. In terms of weaving glowing magic threads into geometric shapes at least.

Here at 2:12, 3:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHwwn7TaXBY

Her height is the only issue for me really, maybe age too when you consider this series is probably aiming to go 10 years, but I have no doubt she can play Moiraine performance wise.

Appropriate physicality will absolutely need to be observed for certain characters however, like Rand, Perrin, Lan & the Aiel in general. You cannot cast a shortarse as Rand.

Whoever shouted Cavill as Galad I think that's a good call. He really gives off that charming but uber-straight laced goody two shoes vibe (that went completely unused as Superman). Might be too big a name though.

Buscemi is a good shout for Fain, but he maybe a bit too old now at 60.

Alicia Vikander I think would be a good Moiraine. Got the acting chops, pint-sized stature, around the right age (30) to hold down an ageless look for 10 years. Well known but not too big a name either.

Katherine McNamara could be a good Elayne, though I don't think I've seen her act in anything.

Maybe Rosamund Pike for Morgase.

My total off the wall would-never-happen-but-would be-hilarious-and-crazy-enough-to-work-if-it-did choice for Thom, Taika Waititi:

Aging him up 10 years or so would be easy, but of course he's busy making movies.

Tom Holland could be a good Mat, but he's way too big a name.

On 10/5/2018 at 5:54 PM, dexterryu said:

My belief is that for all of the long lived, major characters you'd want unknowns. I'd imagine if this show is successful it's going to go for at least 7 years.

 

 

we don't want Emilia Clarke to play Moiriane even though she'd be good for the part with her natural hair color.

 

Agreed. Casting this needs to keep a good 10 year run in mind if everything goes as well as we want it to.

And I'd say we don't want want Clarke as Moiraine full stop. I don't think she's a good actress.

On 10/12/2018 at 9:36 PM, Werthead said:

My initial thoughts for a somewhat more realistic cast list:

 

Rand – Louis Hoffman (from the Netflix series Dark, although he's not that tall but they can always work round that)

Lan – Daniel Wu (from Into the Badlands)

Nynaeve – Jessica Henwick (from Game of Thrones and Iron Fist/Defenders)

 

Elaida – Maria Doyle Kennedy (from Orphan Black and The Tudors)

Definite no to Hoffman. He's not just "not that tall", he's properly short, like 5'7". Nearly a full foot shorter than Rand is supposed to be. That's something I think should be noted, Rand's height isn't arbitrary, it's part of his heritage and character. He's the kind of tall you can't fudge with camera angles and tricks, whoever is cast needs the height. Same for Perrin, he needs to be physically imposing, it's part of his character, it's how/why he learned to be so considerate and careful.

Wu also seems quite a bit too short.

Henwick, as big a crush as I have on her and would like to see in this, is wrong for Nyn. The Two Rivers is supposed to be ethnically homogeneous, basically cut off from the outside world for about 2 thousand years, few leave, few outsiders ever visit. That's part of Rand standing out too, because of his height and eye/hair colouring. It's also what makes the Emond's Fielders the audiences eyes and ears learning about the wider world of WoT, they're simple country bumpkins knowing not that much more than the audience does.

As you mention Orphan Black, I'd like to see Tatiana Maslany in this. Maybe a Forsaken, Lanfear or something.

On 11/11/2018 at 7:10 PM, Maedelin said:

I kind of think that maybe Kiernan Shipka (In a wig or not, I don't really care) for Min Farshaw.  She has a delivery method and a low voice that makes me feel like she'd do a great job in the role.

Isn't Min supposed to be several years older than Rand? Mid/Late-20's? Shipka is 19 and looks younger.

On 10/10/2018 at 2:37 PM, Occams whiskey bottle said:

I don't understand all the hand wringing. Moiraine and Lan are by far the most mysterious people we are introduced to. We don't know who the Aes Sedai are or what the One Power is. Each character is introduced to the Power in their own time, and Rands is pretty subtle. I don't see why anyone would be annoyed by Moiraine taking center stage to begin with. After all she is the person who introduced each and one of us the the secret world of the Aes Sedai.

Moiraine (and Lan) are only mysterious from the POV of the Emond's Fielders. She can't remain that mysterious if she's the central character.

WoT is an ensemble series, sure, and Moraine can get plenty of screentime, but at the center of that ensemble is Rand, Perrin & Mat followed by Egwene & Nynaeve. The Emond's Field crew are the audience surrogate into this world, their community has been basically cut off from the outside world from the outside world for 2 thousand years. It is through those 5 that we really discover this world, not Moiraine. The 5 are the heroes going on a journey, Moiraine is the stranger come to town. Making her the central character would be a mistake, IMO.

Also, It's been about 6 and a half years since I've posted here...

I don't think it's to do with POV's, dark Andorans are mentioned every now and then throughout the series.

Somewhere in book 7 (or maybe 6) Mat (or maybe Perrin) note a very dark skinned Andoran (yeah, that's not something to hang your caoat on, but I'm not willing to chase it down). They're well enough travelled at that point to have good reference.

In book 8 - Chpt 28 - Crimsonthorn, when Elayne gets back to Caemlyn she's standing in the throne room looking at the windows. Direct quote: "... the White Lion of Andor alternated with scenes of Andoran victories and the faces of the land's earliest queens, beginning with Ishara herself, as dark as any of the Atha'an Miere,..."

So while probably not all that common, there are very dark skinned Andorans, and enough that Rahvin would not occasion much comment.

^^ And more importantly,

If Galad can channel i'll eat my own shoes.

I'll hold you to that. ;)

I don't really see anything in HP that would have been borrowed from WoT.

if your goign to start the series, especailly being an adult, start with PoA (Prisoner of Askanban)  *nods*  one of the best in the series by far.  though OoTP runs close with it *grins*

Or just, y'know...  start at the start.....  ???

you made a lot of good points but i still don't agree with many of stuff rand does. i think it's better to lead people with courage, fairness, and good ideals rather than scaring people to submission or roughshodding them.

Everything that killdawabbit and draconian said, plus I'll just emphasize that Rand just doesn't have the time it would take to change the near 3,000 year old, widely held perception of what the Dragon Reborn is.

Even so he is very fair to the common folk and very courageous to boot.

rand is just too much. The way he uses his friends especially perrin has just made me dislike him so much.

It's necessary to save the world, his friends are in very powerful positions.

I've really enjoyed reading this topic. I disagree with Milti.

Your mobility doesnt mean shit against a horse. Not in the context of a battle.

Course it does. All they have to do is remember the five D's of Dodgeball.

Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive and Dodge.

If you can dodge a horse, you can dodge a ball. ;)

I didn't mean Gaul was not an exceptional fighter, I meant not for an Aiel. Never is he hailed as being one of the Aiel's great heroes,

I don't recall any Aiel being hailed as a great hero (Correct me if I'm wrong). Closest I've seen them come to "hailing a hero" is their respect for Lan.

Really? What's all this nonsense Lan is spouting then about a charge from Aiel Redshields or Stone Dogs being impossible to stop?

You're taking him at his absolute word. He's just saying it's a fearsome thing, very hard to stop.

Please don't retort "You can stop them with CAVALRY! CAVALRY! CAVALRY!", because like pretty much everyone else has said, it's circumstantial.

What could Lan's weakness be?

 

Chocolate cream pie.

I can sympathize with Lan there.

There be legend, no not even that, a whisper of a myth, that says one day long ago a young Lan came across a whole Fortress made of Chocolate Cream Pies.

Of course Lan, brought up by warriors was never allowed near sweets ("you'll never face a trolloc and live if your thighs chaffe together, boy!") but he was out on his own for the first time now, no one to stop him he thought. So he ate the whole Fortress of Chocolate Cream Pie but for the very last one... (he couldn't move to pick it up, but boy did he want it)

It took 9 hard years to work off all those calories. Some say one more pie would have killed him.....

...that last Pie still haunts him to this very day. 

So pray the Shadow doesn't know the recipe to Chocolate Cream Pie and bring one to the field of battle at Tarmon Gai'don...