Here’s your first look at Henry Cavill as Geralt from Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’

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While people are speculating whether Henry Cavill will be returning to the DC movie universe as Superman, the actor has lined up his next project: starring in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher. The streaming service gave us a first look of Cavill as a brooding monster hunter named Geralt. The series is going to be based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels and is being adapted by writer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. Filming will start this month in Hungary. Cavill will be joined by Freya Allan as Ciri, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer, Jodhi May as Queen Calanthe, and many more.

The series, which is expected to come out on the service next year, is described as “an epic tale of fate and family.” It follows Geralt of Rivia, who’s being described as a “solitary monster hunter.” He’s said to be struggling to find his place among people but “when destiny hurtles him towards a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.”

Source: Polygon

Casting has begun for Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ series

If you’ve been waiting for news on The Witcher series coming to Netflix, we have some bits of info for you. The show, as you may know, will be based on the novels that inspired the CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher. Its author Andrzej Sapkowski will be onboard as a creative so we know that it will try to be as authentic as it can be. The show’s writer Lauren S. Hissrich has shared on her Twitter where they are with the project so far. The pilot episode’s script is drafted up and now they’re going into casting. And she’s gone into great detail about this. We’ll keep it under the cut if you want to read. So far we don’t know when the series will air but with this going full steam ahead we won’t be surprised if this happens soon.

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