Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-26580042-20160723184605/@comment-24674051-20160723185923

Unfortunately, it's not the first time a role has been recast (So far we have Gaston and Robin Hood in terms of Major role recasts). And the only people that would notice are the fans that are familiar with Wonderland.

Naveen did a wonderful job with Jafar in Wonderland, and based on a couple of the comments I've seen in articles, I think they did try to see about working out arrangements to get him back, but Naveen's work with Sense 8 just would not allow him time.

As has been said in several places already, though, Oded's portrayal (what we see in 3 minutes time) definitely shows the same type of cold, calculated evil that we saw in Jafar from Wonderland, so I do believe that he'll do a fine Job.

And depending on how they deal with the whole timeline issue, this could easily be the same Jafar from Wonderland. And I'm betting that they will portray him as the same Jafar, including bringing in some of the wonderland story at some point.