For three seasons now, Freya Allan has played Ciri on The Witcher, taking her from a pampered princess to a witcher-in-training to...who knows? The third season of the Netflix show ended with Ciri getting warped to a faraway desert, captured by Nilfgaardian soldiers, and freed by a group of young criminals known as the Rats. In season 4, she'll travel with these new characters as her mentor Geralt of Rivia scours the Continent looking for her.
At least, that's what will happen if the show continues to follow The Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski, which we're sure it will. But The Witcher TV series on Netflix has always existed in a strange middle ground between Sapkowski's books and The Witcher video games from CD Projekt Red, which take place after the end of the books and with which Sapkowski wasn't involved at all. According to Freya Allan, the version of Ciri we meet in The Witcher season 4 will borrow elements from both versions of the character, at least aesthetically.
"You actually also haven't seen that she gets new hair and makeup, as well, which I think when you see that, it’s a lot of paralleling the game," Allan told Collider. "So, I think that will tie it all together, as well. But I think it was basically about getting a mixture between the books and the game. I was very heavily involved with the costume, and I really wanted it to be a bit of a mixture of both, just so that fans had that. The minute I'm in that costume and the new hair and makeup, it feels like a different Ciri. It's so much fun. We've just never seen her like this, and so I'm really excited for people to see what happens. It's fun."
We probably have a while left to wait until we get to see the new Ciri for ourselves; odds are that the fourth season of The Witcher will drop sometime in 2025. And then I expect Netflix to split it up into multiple chunks. In addition to Ciri, we'll get the returns of characters like Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) and Jaskier (Joey Batey). Geralt, the titular witcher, will also be back, but this time he'll be played by Liam Hemsworth, who's replacing Henry Cavill. That's a change everyone is very curious about. Will it be a disaster or a triumph? Stay tuned.
In the meanwhile, Freya Allan is keeping busy, turning her Witcher notoriety into a role in the blockbuster Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which is streaming now on Max.
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