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Netflix The Witcher is coming in Q4 2019
- Thread starter Rodjer
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It does.. Has me truly questioning the production value for the series. Hopefully they do the series justice but I am not going to hold my breath.
That's a lot earlier than I expected. Finally I can experience the rich lore and visuals of The Witcher's world without the clunky gameplay of the games :P
I hear you.
I'm going to be so pissed if this comes out and it looks like Hercules and Xena
Curious when we might get a first trailer for it. Would be a nice capstone to the year if it's good though
Which is why I said visuals. But I kid. I'm interested in the show. I really enjoy the world building of the 3 games, but I've found the games to be not my cup of tea. I'm happy if someone visually recreates all that without the downsides of the games. It's a fascinating world.
Really, how come? I mean they've likely been filming since last year and will probably have filmed the FX heavy scenes first. They've got maybe a good 8 months of post to work on 8 episodes. Shouldn't be too difficult for them.
I mean... in the books there is little fighting and lots and lots of talks so I don't expect a huge VFX budget serie
More seriously, I have some concerns about Cavil's look. I hope they will find the right balance so as not to make Geralt too ridiculous on the screen.
More seriously, I have some concerns about Cavil's look. I hope they will find the right balance so as not to make Geralt too ridiculous on the screen.
I have problems with everyone looks, except Ciri.
edit: by the look of the actors, since nothing was showed
One thing that makes GoT expensive is the fact that follow simultaneously a dozen different characters across 5-6 different locations (The Wall, Winterfell, King's Landing, Iron Islands, Dorne, Braavos, even more locations across the sea). If here instead it just follows Geralt and whatever other secondary characters that are with him, the scope can be much more small.
It was announced two years ago and they're shooting eight episodes, sounds good to me honestly.
The Witcher in general is much smaller in scope. ASOIAF/Game of Thrones has a huge cast of characters with many different locations.
The Witcher just has Geralt, Yennefer and, later in the series, Ciri, but that's basically it. Game of Thrones (at least, nowadays) is also far more focused on big CGI monsters and battles, while The Witcher books are mostly focused on human drama with very few monster encounters and battles. In the entire book series there are maybe two or three big battles.
I feel like it was just yesterday Cavil put it out there he wanted the role and now they're aiming to have it air by the 4th quarter, seems kind of quick.
I just want it to be good, love the series and I hope it's on par with some of the more recent projects Netflix has greenlit like Umbrella academy.
Well, there is a not too small cast of characters that are both in the short stories and in the novels (obviously Geralt, Dandelion, Yennefer, later Ciri, Vilgefortz, even more later you have Geralt's hanza, the Rats, most of the main sorceresses, kings, queens, etc.) and then every short story has their own dozens of different characters and so on.. it maybe doesn't have so many main characters like the ASoIaF saga, but there are still many, many charaters in the Witcher stories
I have never been more afraid of an adaptation than this one and Cowboy Bebop.
people are going to be disappointed when their interpretation of book geralt is different from netfix show Geralt tool
This. I would put Witcher at the top of my favorite Fantasy settings, if this ends up bad it would break my heart.
The last Wish is a lot of fun! Still need to read the second book.
