Whether we'll ever see Henry Cavill as
Superman again appears to be in limbo, yet the 36-year-old British actor appears to be doing just fine as it's rumored that August Walker will return for the next
Mission: Impossible Installment. Additionally
, the reaction coming in following the first trailer for Netflix's
The Witcher adaptation appears to indicate that Cavill will be leading another franchise.
An avid gamer, it should come as no surprise that Cavill had already clocked in multiple playthroughs of
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt well before he was ever cast as Geralt of Rivia.
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For me personally, it'd be like playing another run of the Witcher 3 but with a completely different skin on...I've played it through a number of times now, and it's like 'OK, cool, I've done it, I've seen, and I still get that enjoyment of playing it through, but what if I could play it slightly differently?' Yeah, this is kind of what it is for me when you're doing the show. Yes, it's Geralt of Rivia, the Witcher, but he looks like me now. For me, that's an interesting thing. It creates a freshness to it because the themes are still very similar.”
The Witcher has yet to be given an exact release date by Netflix with the streaming giant only committing to a late-2019 release thus far. Looking for more news on The Witcher adaptation from Netflix? Click the link below which also includes officially released images of Geralt, Ciri, Yenner and most importantly, Roach.
The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich promised fans that the show won't simply be sex and monster fighting.
"All of our characters have sorts of side journeys, and we wanted to take the space to actually get to know them as characters, their relationships with other people, and eventually their relationships with each other. That's just as important to us as epic quests or killing monsters, so we definitely left space for that."
Newcomer Freya Allan (17) portrays Ciri in the fantasy television show. In the novels, she's adoptive daughter of Geralt whose backstory serves as the crux for much of the plot in both the games and the novels.
Anya Chalotra (23) portrays Yennefer, Geralt's primary love interest for most of the novels and books (Team Triss FTW!). Chalotra is best known for roles in Wonderlust and Sherwood.
Having played Superman, Cavill stated that he understands well that its a no-win situation trying to satisfy every single fan's vision of what characters and places should look like in real life.
"It's tough, there's always going to be someone or someones that who will have a different idea, that's the beauty of adapting a book. Everyone has their own mental imagery of what a character looks like or how they behave or what they sound like. It's about going all in and making it what you think it is. It's not necessarily conforming to what every single person says on the internet, because then you'll lose. Because everyone says something different and it's different for everyone. You just provide what your insight to the character is and who you believe they are, and you go from there."
Was Henry Cavill's Geralt drinking a decoction (a poisonous Witcher potion) at the end of the SDCC trailer? It certainly appeared that way but Cavill stopped short of confirming anything in an interview with IGN, alluding to the posibility of other items from the video game series that might have a similar affect.
"I’m not going to reveal anything yet about that, because there are too many parallels drawn with other products as well, which we are not drawing parallels too."
When she iniitally read the script for the project, showrunner Lauren Hissrich didn't think it was right for her but when Netflix actually approached, she took a second look and keyed in on the core story revolving around Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer.
"If you take all the other fantasy elements away, you take the magic and story and violence and sex away, you still have three characters who are this broken disjointed family who really need each other even though they don’t want to admit it. And that was one of the most appealing things to me."
Though the show will contain some elements from the video games, the Netflix adaptation will more closely follow the books and more precisely, starting with some of the prequel short stories that recount adventures before the events of Book 1 of The Witcher Saga: Blood of Elves. Expect the story to pick up with 1992's Sword of Destiny.
There won't be an outright villain in the first season of the show. Instead, its been revealed that The Witcher will deal with the "shades of grey" within everyone.
On whether the show has a PG-13 vibe or will be closer to Game of Thrones, Hissirch stated that it's definitely not a PG-13 show.
"It’s a very adult show. I will add it was important to me that any violence or sex drives the story and is not there just for shock value. I think audiences are really savvy and know when we’re doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story."
The worst monsters are the ones we create. Watch the first official teaser for The Witcher, Season 1.