According To THE WITCHER Director, We Will Learn Who Plays Geralt Relatively Soon

According To THE WITCHER Director, We Will Learn Who Plays Geralt Relatively Soon

The Witcher's pre-production phase is coming to an end, as one of the directors of the adaptation has confirmed that we will learn the name of an actor who plays the main hero, Geralt within three months!

By BaltazarOS - May 25, 2018 03:05 PM EST
Filed Under: The Witcher
Source: GameFragger
The Witcher series was officially announced last May and not much has been revealed to us about the upcoming adaptation of Sapkowski's body of work since that moment. Screenwriter Lauren S. Hissrich has already finished working on the pilot episode and Netflix has a plan to adapt the first two books, Sword of Destiny and The Last Wish. Sean Daniel, Jason Brown, Jarek Sawko and Tomek Bagiński are producing the series.
 
According to Bagiński, who's not only producing The Witcher, but will also direct at least one episode of the show, we should learn who will play The Witcher's protagonist Geralt of Rivia within three months.It's great news, as the series is expected to start filming this Fall mostly in Poland, Eastern and Central Europe. The fact that the producers are finalizing the casting decisions means that the pre-production phase is coming to an end.
 
Bagiński is a Polish illustrator, animator and director. His Platige Image has created cinematics for CD Projekt Red's The Witcher game series, Wonder Woman’s prologue sequence, Ambition, a collaboration between Platige Image and European Space Agency, and many more. Between 1999 and 2002, Bagiński was working on his short film debut, The Cathedral, which has won the first prize at SIGGRAPH, the biggest festival of animation and special effects, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2003.

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MrDandy
MrDandy - 5/25/2018, 3:42 PM
I'm in the Mads Mikkelson camp. He'd be very different from the games version (which could be good) while still being true to the book version and pulling off the grizzled, aged, eerieness of the character. He also very much as the physicality to pull off the role.
MrDandy
MrDandy - 5/25/2018, 3:44 PM
Fares
Fares - 5/25/2018, 3:43 PM
Didn't watch Inhumans but I think the guy playing Black Bolt could nail the look.
Menks123
Menks123 - 5/25/2018, 4:13 PM
@Fares - That's my choice. Anson Mount is a good actor and has the exact look. I know Inhumans sucked, but he was the least of its problems.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 5/25/2018, 5:28 PM
@Fares - I hadn't thought of it before , but now that you said it, I could totally see him As Geralt. He was great in Hell on Wheels and definitely wasn't the worst part of that awful Inhumans show.
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 5/25/2018, 3:46 PM
I hope the actor will be Polish and it would be great if all the other actors and actresses were Eastern European too.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/25/2018, 3:49 PM
I've been fancasting Tom Wlaschiha since I read the books.

Urubrodi
Urubrodi - 5/25/2018, 4:08 PM
@Spock0Clock - the faceless man, good choice and quite original
MarsivNayr
MarsivNayr - 5/25/2018, 5:48 PM
@Spock0Clock - yo. Yo. YO! YES! Yes.....I agree.
Menks123
Menks123 - 5/25/2018, 4:14 PM
If actors read the books or even played the games, i'd bet there is a lot of competition to land this role.
CAPTAINPINKEYE
CAPTAINPINKEYE - 5/25/2018, 5:02 PM
PLEASE let it be Jack Black. Please please please
MarsivNayr
MarsivNayr - 5/25/2018, 5:52 PM
@CAPTAINPINKEYE -
Grodd87
Grodd87 - 5/25/2018, 5:15 PM
This could be really good but still want a fallout tv show.
zeon00
zeon00 - 5/25/2018, 7:01 PM
Polish and Eastern European actors should be cast
csims1885
csims1885 - 5/25/2018, 7:23 PM
@zeon00 - I mean, I get why... But... why?
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 5/26/2018, 1:45 AM
@csims1885 - The Witcher seems to be a bit of a national pride. It makes sense for them to want to remain at the "head of the table", so to speak.

Or to put it another way, it's often disheartening to see American production structures strip away the unique character of non-American IP's (oftentimes without fully appreciating or understanding what they're doing). That's part of why the CD Projekt Red story is so cool. A local studio and a local author bootstrap their way to making a globalized success without an Americanized institution sanding off all the rough edges.

And while I'm sympathetic to that context (and I hope the original author has mountains of input because those books are phenomenal), there is going to be some inevitable localization. I just hope it's not on the level of Netflix's Deathnote. I only got about ten minutes in and... I'm afraid of what the rest of it could have been like...
csims1885
csims1885 - 5/26/2018, 4:20 AM
@Spock0Clock - fair enough. That being said, Doug Cockle, an American, voiced Geralt in the game. I think it's more imperative that the crew behind the scenes has a close connection to it's origin/background than the actual cast.
Omega
Omega - 5/26/2018, 9:27 AM
@zeon00 - Im Polish and belive me,there is no solid actor who would fit.Our movie industry is a joke.
Nerderer
Nerderer - 5/26/2018, 2:56 AM
For some reason the Liam Neeson sprung to mind when i saw the thumbnail! He does have a particular set of skills...
Fekkius
Fekkius - 5/26/2018, 12:48 PM
Zach McGowan!
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