Henry Cavill plays Geralt one last time in trailer for The Witcher season 3

Netflix just dropped the first teaser trailer for the third season of The Witcher, the final season where Henry Cavill will play lead character Geralt of Rivia. The watch word is “spooky.” Watch it below:

The third season will be based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s novel Time of Contempt, and I think I see at least one key scene from the book in the teaser; around the 0:17 mark, Geralt unsheathes his sword as he faces down a guy across a room. I won’t spoil things, but that evokes a pretty big scene from the novel.

Then again, the writers on The Witcher have changed so much about the books it’s honestly hard to tell. Also present are Geralt’s on-again, off-again sorceress paramour Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and his surrogate daughter/witcher-in-training Ciri (Freya Allan).

The Witcher season 3 will be released in two parts

The teaser trailer also revealed the release date for season 3. For the first time, a new season of The Witcher will be released in two batches of episodes, something Netflix is doing more and more often nowadays, e.g. when the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4 came out months after the first seven.

We don’t know how many episodes of The Witcher season 3 will release at a time, but we know the dates: the first batch will come out on June 29 and the second on July 27. So not too long a wait, all things considered; just a month.

The Witcher will continue on Netflix after season 3, but the plan is to replace Henry Cavill with Liam Hemsworth. We still don’t know exactly why Cavill is leaving the show, but we have our theories:

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