The race is on to find TV’s next big fantasy drama. Definitely in the running is Netflix’s The Witcher, an adaptation of author Andrzej Sapkowski’s book series about a white-haired demon hunter named Geralt negotiating the line between good and evil in a medieval-style fantasy world where the people can be deadlier than the monsters. Showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich has been pretty open about the series’ progress on Twitter, and yesterday announced that filming on the first season had wrapped:
That’s a wrap on season one! I have enough gray hair to play Geralt now, but it’s been the best year of my life. So grateful to the writers, the cast, and the exceptional crew who worked their asses off to make the Continent come to life. Now, onto... pic.twitter.com/BBuPYco1ER
— Lauren S. Hissrich (@LHissrich) May 30, 2019
The Witcher stars Henry “Superman” Cavill as Geralt, Anya Chalotra as his on-again-off-again sorceress love interest Yennefer, and Freya Allan as his young charge Ciri. The Witcher books have a big cast and a lot of narrative ground to cover, but if you had to pick three main characters, they’d be it.
We still don’t know exactly what books it will cover. The Witcher series is kind of unique in that the first two books in the series — The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny — are made up mostly of interrelated short stories that do not form a traditional narrative. It’s not until Blood of Elves, which we’re currently reading a chapter at a time, that the proper “Witcher saga” kicks in. Based on the characters involved and some behind-the-scenes pics, it looks like the show will start by adapting some of the shorter tales.
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Production hasn’t been without controversy. Plenty of fans weren’t happy with the armor design for the soldiers of Nilfgaard, especially compared to how it looked in the very well-received Witcher 3 video game from CD Projekt Red:
The Witcher 3’s Nilfgaardian Armor versus the leak from The Witcher Netflix series.
— MrMattyPlays (@G27Status) May 27, 2019
It looks like an actual trash bag, bro. pic.twitter.com/FxXraEEJaC
There is a weird…wrinkliness to it.
We’ll see if it looks better in motion when The Witcher drops on Netflix sometime toward the end of the year.
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