THE WITCHER Producers Discusses Henry Cavill's "Very Strong" Final Season and Plan To Introduce Liam Hemsworth
While we wait to continue our fantasy adventure with Geralt (Henry Cavill), Yennefer (Anya Chalotra), and Ciri (Freya Allan) in The Witcher Season 3, a couple of executive producers talk about the final season of Cavill as Geralt and tease the plan for introducing his replacement, Liam Hemsworth. When talking about Cavill’s final season and the last couple of episodes, Steve Gaub said:
"It's a very strong season for Henry, a great final run for him as Geralt. I think the most important thing for us was to make sure he was very proud of those last [scenes], invariably those last moments are the ones you leave an audience with, and those last couple episodes are very strong episodes for him.”
He went on to say that Cavill “left with his head held high and passing the reins as many franchises end up doing, passing a title character from one actor to another, and we're going to be in great hands with Liam."
I’m still not sold on Hemsworth as it’s just such a big downgrade from Cavill. I mean, they had Henry Cavill! Then they lost him. But, now they won’t have Cavill fighting the creative team to make sure the series stays true to the novels. The series is going to suffer from that, though.
Executive producer Tomek Baginski also teased how Hemsworth will take over the reins as the White Wolf in Season 4, saying:
"We have a very, very good plan to introduce our new Geralt and our new vision for Geralt with Liam. Not going deeply into those ideas because this will be a huge spoiler, [but] it's also very, very close to the meta ideas which are deeply embedded in the books, especially in book five."
If you haven’t read Andrzej Sapkowski's fifth book in the series… Spoilers… it sees Ciri go through a portal and find herself in a different world. So perhaps they are planning on Hemsworth’s Geralt being a variant of sorts from another universe. That seems to make the most sense, but we’ll see what happens.
In The Witcher Season 3, “as monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri of Cintra into hiding, determined to protect his newly-reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Entrusted with Ciri’s magical training, Yennefer leads them to the protected fortress of Aretuza, where she hopes to discover more about the girl’s untapped powers; instead, they discover they’ve landed in a battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery. They must fight back, put everything on the line — or risk losing each other forever.”
The series also stars Jodhi May as Calanthe, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson as Eist, Adam Levy as Mousesack, MyAnna Buring as Tissaia, Mimi Ndiweni as Fringilla, Therica Wilson-Read as Sabrina, Emma Appleton as Renfri, Eamon Farren as Cahir, Joey Batey as Jaskier, Lars Mikkelsen as Stregobor, Royce Pierreson as Istredd, Maciej Musiał as Sir Lazlo, Wilson Radjou-Pujalte as Dara, and Anna Shaffer as Triss. New comers include Robbie Amell (Upload), Meng’er Zhang (Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings) as Milva, Hugh Skinner (Mamma Mia Here We Go Again!) as Prince Radovid, and Christelle Elwin (Half Badas) Mistle.
The series comes from producer and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich who already shared that the upcoming season will adapt Andrzej Sapkowski's Time of Contempt, which is the second novel in The Witcher saga.
The first five episodes of The Witcher Season 3 will be released on June 29th, with Volume 2, including the season’s final three episodes, set to drop on July 27th. Enjoy the clip!
Source: Yahoo! Entertainment