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Lauren Schmidt Hissrich to develop Netflix's The Witcher
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If they deviate from what the books are this is going to suck. Unless this is all PR talk to make people think it's something other than what it is, strange as look at how Game of Thrones does, a well done true to The Witcher formula should be huge.
Focusing on the short stories and books, over the game, is a great idea. CD Projekt had to adept The Witcher to make it work as an open-world RPG, the narrative focus, how each quest ties into the larger world. A TV show has to find this for itself, based on the source material. The books are really great, so I hope they do a suitable job. Will not be easy to get it right.
Definitely not, but again, anything's better than the English translation the Geralt of Rivia novels got.
Been ages since I saw DD S02, but what I remember from 9th episode (Seven Minutes in Heaven) it was one of better ones from S02. All of episodes that were about Frank were more interesting and solid than that cult stuff.
I think Netflix is the best way for Video Games to be adapted for the screen. I feel like most video game movies fail because they lack the ability to properly convey the worlds of a video game.
Which by nature is fair. It's an interactive medium but Netflix giving you everything all at once enables for a lot of world building.
The world of the witcher is so rich.
Which by nature is fair. It's an interactive medium but Netflix giving you everything all at once enables for a lot of world building.
The world of the witcher is so rich.
The 'family', whether limited to him, Yennefer, and Ciri, or his wider entourage of friends and associates, is formed over the course of those early books. As a very broad strokes summation of the books, it can work.
It could of course be a description of a much more removed adaptation, where Ciri is just Geralt's conventional apprentice with no destiny nonsense, and Yennefer his beautiful wife, on some crusade for justice. But until evidence to the contrary is presented, I am erring on an adaptation closer to the books and viewing such statements through that lens, given it's how this affair has pinned since the start, as best I recall.
Yeah, it's not even a stretch to call them an unconventional family. That's exactly what they are.
? Have you read the Witcher short stories because that's a fairly accurate short summary.
Or played TW3. There is plenty quests, events, areas and such that are straight from classic fairy tales, but with Witcher twist(s).