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Obviously, Dolph Lundgren will be in The Witcher spinoff Rats

By Dan Selcke

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 21: Dolph Lundgren speaks onstage at the "Masters of the Universe: 40 Years" panel during 2022 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 21, 2022 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images)
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 21: Dolph Lundgren speaks onstage at the "Masters of the Universe: 40 Years" panel during 2022 Comic-Con International: San Diego at San Diego Convention Center on July 21, 2022 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images) /
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Netflix is moving ahead with its plans for a Witcher cinematic universe, despite experiencing diminishing returns. People generally enjoyed the first season of the show, which starred Henry Cavill as the titular monster hunter. Opinions on season 2 were more split, and pretty much everyone hated the prequel series Blood Origin. Now there’s a third season on the way and another spinoff: Rats.

Rats is another prequel series. This one’s about a group of teenage criminals that Ciri will meet in the upcoming third season of the mothership show: there’s Giselher (Ben Radcliffe), Mistle (Christelle Elwin), Kayleigh (Fabian McCallum), Iskra (Aggy K. Adams), Reef (Juliette Alexandra), and Asse (Connor Crawford). Rats will show what they get up to before running into Ciri.

Now Redanian Intelligence reports that Swedish actor Dolph Lundren will appear in the show, drawing from an interview that Lundgren gave to Swedish-language outlet Aftonbladet. We don’t know who’s he’s playing, but RI suspects he could inhabit the role of Leo Bonhart, a mercenary with whom the Rats have a confrontation in the pages of Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher novels. If that’s the case, he could well be in the fourth season of The Witcher as well.

’80s action star Dolph Lundgren joins the cast of The Witcher prequel Rats

Dolph Lundgren has been working in Hollywood for decades, but his heyday was probably the 1980s, when muscled-up action heroes like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone ruled the screen. Lundgren played Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, He-Man in Masters of the Universe, and the Punisher in the 1989 Punisher movie. He’s since appeared in The Expendables series, among other projects.

At least in my mind, Lundgren is so closely associated with the ’80s that it’s kind of a shock to see him pop up in modern projects, but that’s for me to work out. Rats doesn’t have a release date yet, but the next season of The Witcher premiers on Netflix on June 29.

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