In October 2022, Netflix announced that Liam Hemsworth would be replacing Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia from the start of Season 4. [54] In December 2017, it was reported that Lauren Schmidt Hissrich would serve as showrunner on the show. [17] In April 2018, Schmidt Hissrich revealed that the script for the pilot episode was finished and that the first season would be eight episodes long. [18] In 2017, it was reported that Andrzej Sapkowski would serve as a creative consultant on the show, but in January 2018, Sapkowski denied any direct involvement. [19] However, he met with Schmidt Hissrich in April 2018, [20] [21] and in May 2018, she stated that Sapkowski was on the creative team of the project. [22] In August, Andrew Laws was revealed as production designer. [23] In December, Radio Times reported directors Alik Sakharov and Charlotte Brändström had joined the project. [24] After 14 years, Sapkowski released Season of Storms in 2013. Set between short stories included in The Last Wish, it is a standalone prequel to The Witcher Saga. [16] In 2020, Sapkowski stated that he had "some plans" for a new entry in The Witcher, but "My future plans are vague, nothing is fixed yet". [17] Non- Witcher anthologies [ edit ] In 2007, a video game The Witcher developed by CD Projekt Red was released. A sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, was released in 2011 by the same team. The final game of the trilogy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, was released in 2015. [58] [59] Sapkowski had no involvement with the video games, giving the studio license to create a completely new story using his characters. [12] All three games were positively received, with Metacritic giving them an 81, an 88, and a 93 out of 100 respectively. [60] [61] [62] They were also extremely successful commercially, selling more than 50 million copies as of May 2020, over 30 million copies being from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt alone. [1]

Schwartz, Ryan (November 13, 2019). "The Witcher Scores Early Season 2 Renewal at Netflix". TVLine. Archived from the original on November 19, 2019 . Retrieved November 13, 2019. CD Projekt Red developed a card game named "Gwent" that was included in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as an in-game activity. They have created two stand-alone video games based on it, titled Gwent: The Witcher Card Game and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, both released in 2018. [63] [64]Hurley, Laura (December 5, 2019). "Why Netflix's The Witcher Doesn't Focus On Just Henry Cavill's Geralt In Season 1". CinemaBlend. Archived from the original on December 28, 2019 . Retrieved December 26, 2019. Netflix released an animated film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, on August 23, 2021, with their TV series showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as producer and writer BeAu DeMayo, and animation provided by Studio Mir.

The first two books are short story collections, while the latter five are novels, but they all fit together to tell a complete narrative in a linear fashion. Don't skip any; they're all good, and they all contain valuable plot information. Petski, Denise (October 10, 2018). " 'The Witcher': Netflix Fantasy Drama Series Casts Its Females Leads Ciri & Yennefer". Deadline. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018 . Retrieved October 11, 2018. Robbie Amell as Gallatin, commander of the Scoia'tael elves and an old friend of Cahir who's vying for leadership over the elves with Francesca.a b c Earl, William (September 25, 2021). " 'The Witcher' Renewed for Season 3, Expands Universe With New Projects". Variety . Retrieved September 25, 2021. Tylko dla fanów wiedźmina Geralta. Szpony i kły – recenzja Spider's Web". Spidersweb.pl. November 16, 2017. Archived from the original on January 4, 2018 . Retrieved January 3, 2018. Cassie Clare as Philippa Eilhart (season 3; guest season 2), the shapeshifting court sorceress of King Vizimir of Redania as well as Dijkstra's partner in crime. She has close ties to the Brotherhood.

Sapkowski, Andrzej (August 19, 2010). Blood of Elves: Witcher 1 – Now a major Netflix show. Orion. ISBN 978-0-575-08749-1.The stories are set on an unnamed Continent, [24] which was settled several thousand years earlier by elves from overseas. When they arrived, the elves encountered gnomes and dwarves. After a war between the elves and dwarves, the dwarves retreated into the mountains, and the elves settled in the plains and forests. Human colonists arrived about five hundred years before the events in the stories, igniting a series of wars. The humans were victorious and became dominant; the non-human races, now considered second-class citizens, often live in small ghettos within human settlements. Those not confined to the ghettos live in wilderness regions not yet claimed by humans. Other races on the Continent are halflings and dryads; werewolves and vampires appeared after a magical event known as the Conjunction of the Spheres. Filming locations for the second season were all in the UK and included Cathedral Cave and Hodge Close Quarry in the Lake District, [70] Low Force Waterfall in the North Pennines, [71] and Bourne Wood in Farnham. [72] Dandelion (Polish: Jaskier) is a poet, minstrel, bard and Geralt's best friend. The Polish word jaskier refers to the Buttercup flower ( Ranunculus). Some of his more famous ballads were about the relationship between Geralt and Yennefer. By the time of the saga, he is already in his 40s though it is said that he appears to be in his 30s and is sometimes mistaken for an elf. He accompanies Geralt in many short stories and ends up joining his hansa while searching for Ciri. [ citation needed] He is played by Joey Batey in The Witcher TV series. [29] In the 2001 Polish Wiedźmin film, he was played by Zbigniew Zamachowski. [30]