Do we even know if he was a lead or minor supporting player?
I agree we don't know anything about his role and very little about what the series will be, so it may not mean anything at all, but there have been several red flags so far.
To me the biggest red flag is we've really seen or been shown nothing. Everything about this production is shrouded in secrecy. What little we know about we know from trade sites or casting stories. Like we know about the map and second age, but we've got no teasers, no footage, no posters, nothing. Like give us a cast list or a summary or something. Or a two-line synopsis.
The synopsis that TheOneRing revealed was (shockingly) real, multiple Hollywood trades confirmed that including Variety and Deadline. Problem is, the synopsis didn't reveal much beyond what we already knew - except that there will be stories beyond the furthest reaches of the map, or something to that effect, which of course sparked renewed interest in the Blue Wizards and their storylines.
Remember that GOT's entire pilot had to be thrown in the trash, and Dany was recast.
She was supposed to be in the GOT spin-off that got cancelled. IIRC, the only major replacements in the first pilot for GOT were Daenerys and Catelyn.Wasn't Naomie Watts or someone supposed to be Cersei?
No way that long. No chance. 2023 at the latest in mu opinion.This kind of stuff happens but my bigger take-away is that if they are going back and redoing stuff on the two episodes it took the like a year to make, then we might get S1 around, say, 2025.