Details about Netflix’s Witcher show emerge as filming ends on season 1
By Dan Selcke
Game of Thrones ends in less than a fortnight, but there’s no telling how long the network of genre shows it inspires will last. One of those shows is The Witcher, Netflix’s adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels. The production team have been filming for months, using Budapest, Hungary as a home base. Now, based on numerous social media postings from cast and crew members, it looks like the shoot is coming to an end.
Witcher fansite Redanian Intelligence cataloged a lot of these posts. There’s director Charlotte Brändström saying goodbye to Budapest on Instagram…
…Royce Pierreson, who plays the sorcerer Istredd, writing “That’s a wrap for me”…
…and more. It’s starting to look pretty likely that we could see the first season of the show on Netflix before the end of the year.
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Meanwhile, fansite TheWitcher.TV has confirmed with Netflix that actor Shaun Dooley will be playing King Foltest, who figures prominently in a story from the first Witcher book, The Last Wish.
In fact, it looks like a lot of the characters we’ve seen are from early on in the saga, back when the Witcher books were more collections of short stories rather than one long tale. Istredd also appears in an early, more-or-less self-contained story, about lead character Geralt’s relationship with his on-again off-again sorceress paramour Yennefer. And based on looks we’ve gotten at the set, it seems like the show will adapt the story “The Bounds of Reason” from Sword of Destiny, although short story. I wonder if the first season of Netflix’s show will be mostly episodic before getting into the saga proper, or if it’ll all be linked.
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