The Witcher Gets Renewed for a Fifth Season at Netflix, With Liam Hemsworth as Geralt

The Witcher sequence is reportedly getting a fifth season at Netflix. In an interview with Deadline, UK casting director Sophie Holland mentioned, “We’re nearly to start out filming on season 4 with Liam Hemsworth and there might be a brief hole then we go straight into season 5.” Hemsworth (The Starvation Video games movies) was introduced onto the present final yr, after Henry Cavill laid down the role of the main monster hunter Geralt of Rivia. It’s now revealed that the previous is right here to remain longer, with the fifth season being filmed back-to-back with season 4.

“I actually sit up for seeing what Liam brings. He has an enormous fan base. Season 4 might be a pleasant combine of latest characters and returning faces,” Holland mentioned within the interview. Her response to Hemsworth’s casting echoes the views of sequence showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who lately revealed that she was wanting ahead to his portrayal of the mostly-silent silver-haired Geralt.

Whereas ending the present after Cavill’s departure was a risk the workforce thought-about, she was one of many frontrunners in defending the recast. “There’s simply too many tales left to inform. If we changed Geralt with one other Witcher, we might be going absolutely away from the books, and I do not suppose that is what anybody wished both,” Hissrich instructed Whole Movie (through Collider) earlier this month.

The third season of the fantasy present has been divided into two elements — akin to Stranger Things 4 — marking Cavill’s closing stint as Geralt. The primary quantity releases on June 29 and follows our monster hunter on a quest to guard his adopted daughter of types, Ciri (Freya Allan), with assist from the highly effective sorceress Yennefer (Anya Chalotra). Tailored from the Andrzej Sapkowski novel The Time of Contempt, Emhyr Var Emreis – the Emperor of Nilfgaard – will definitely pose huge bother for the lead group, given the stunning revelation that he’s Ciri’s father and the Wild Hunt that ensues for her seize.

Manufacturing on The Witcher season 3 began in April 2022, with Netflix revealing its director lineup of 4. This contains Stephen Surjik (The Umbrella Academy), Gandja Monteiro (Model New Cherry Taste), Loni Peristere (American Horror Story), and Bola Ogun (Lucifer). Everybody apart from Surjik — who helmed the primary two episodes of The Witcher season 2 — is new to the world of The Witcher. Netflix final launched a prequel spin-off sequence referred to as The Witcher: Blood Origin, set 1000’s of years prior and providing some context into the creation of the primary prototype Witcher — they’re genetic mutations.

In the meantime, Cavill was briefly set to reprise his function as Superman for DC Movies, earlier than these plans obtained shut down with the institution of DC Studios underneath new leaders James Gunn and Peter Safran. The corporate wished to give attention to the younger years of the Kryptonian superhero, written and directed by Gunn, which hampered Cavill’s return. Later, the 40-year-old actor was attached to government produce and star in a TV adaptation of Warhammer 40,000 — the miniature wargame — at Amazon Prime Video.

The Witcher Season 3: Vol. 1 premieres June 29 on Netflix. The second half is slated to launch a month later, on July 27.