Netflix introduced in the present day that Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri will return for a fifth season of The Witcher — and that the present’s fifth season will be its last. Season 5 will be filmed back-to-back with season 4, which has simply began manufacturing.
The announcement got here with the first official hints at the plot of season 4, which sees Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri separated and searching for each other throughout a harmful and conflict-strewn Continent.
“After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three,” says Netflix’s official abstract, “the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding one another again.”
The “baptism of fire” line in Netflix’s announcement looks like a transparent Easter egg for followers suggesting season 4 will primarily comply with the e-book Baptism of Fireplace, which is the fifth e-book in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher collection. One factor that isn’t clear is that if season 4 will attain past the fifth e-book, contemplating the present has three books left to adapt and solely two seasons left to cowl that floor. Nonetheless it’s divided between seasons 4 and 5, the present will finally make it via the occasions of The Tower of the Swallow and Woman of the Lake to complete out Sapkowski’s collection, in line with Netflix’s launch.
The streaming large additionally revealed footage and images of the manufacturing reuniting for the first desk learn of The Witcher season 4, that includes returning solid members and new addition Liam Hemsworth. Season 4 will be the first season of The Witcher to function Hemsworth in the position of Geralt, following Henry Cavill’s departure from the collection.
We’re heading again to The Continent. The Witcher Season 4 is formally in manufacturing. And Season 5 is coming to carry this epic collection to a becoming conclusion. pic.twitter.com/mejYbhfhxZ
— Netflix (@netflix) April 18, 2024
Netflix didn’t announce a launch window for both new season, however with manufacturing on the two seasons simply getting beneath method, it appears protected to imagine we received’t see The Witcher season 4 till 2025.
Whereas a famous Witcher superfan, Cavill stepped away from the collection in October 2022, with Hemsworth (The Starvation Video games franchise, Independence Day: Resurgence) tapped to exchange him. Cavill had simply introduced his return to the position of Superman, and at the time many assumed that he’d left The Witcher to have time for Warner Bros.’ superhero franchise.
However in December of that 12 months, James Gunn introduced that the first Superman movie of Warner Bros.’ new plans for DC Comics-based movies would focus on a youthful Superman not performed by Cavill. And in the similar week, Cavill introduced that he’d entered right into a take care of one other franchise very near his coronary heart: the Warhammer 40k universe. Cavill is ready to star in and govt produce a Warhammer “cinematic universe” of “film, television, and more.”
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