(CNN)Is "The Wheel of Time" the adjacent "Game of Thrones?"
It depends connected who you ask.
Some connected Twitter person made the comparison, and GQ published a caller communicative with the headline, "Inside Wheel of Time, Amazon's Huge Gamble connected the Next Game of Thrones."
But reviews have been mixed truthful far.
Here's what you should cognize astir the epic phantasy series:
Based connected novels
The caller bid has plentifulness of root worldly arsenic it's based connected a bid of phantasy novels written by Robert Jordan.
There are 14 novels and a prequel. Writer Brandon Sanderson co-authored the last 3 novels aft Jordan died successful 2007.
The stars
Rosamund Pike plays the protagonist, Moiraine Damodred, and besides serves arsenic 1 of the producers of the series.
She is joined by Daniel Henney, who plays Lan Mondragoran, Madeleine Madden arsenic Egwene al'Vere and Josha Stradowski arsenic Rand al'Thor among the cast.
What it's about
This is the tricky portion arsenic it gets a spot complicated.
The simplest mentation is that the enactment revolves astir determining who among a radical of men and women is the Dragon, a reincarnation who is the lone 1 with capable powerfulness to decision evil successful the signifier of the Dark One.
Where you tin ticker it
"The Wheel of Time" is presently streaming connected Amazon Prime.
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