THE WITCHER Season 3 Gets an Exciting Teaser Trailer, Poster, and Summer Release Date
Netflix has unleashed the first trailer and poster for the highly-anticipated third season of the fantasy drama series, The Witcher. A little tease was shared yesterday in a tweet featuring the poster for the series which included Henry Cavill‘s Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra’s Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Freya Allan’s Ciri holding each other with intense expressions on their faces.
We now have an exciting and haunting teaser trailer for you to watch and it was announced that the five-episode Volume 1 will be released globally on June 29th, with Volume 2, including the season’s final three episodes, set to drop on July 27th.
This next season is the last time we’ll see Cavill in the role of the monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, and series creator and showrunner Lauren Hissrich says that it feels like "the most heroic sendoff" for the actor. As you know by now, Cavill exited the show and he was replaced by Liam Hemsworth for Season 4.
She went on to say: "Henry has given so much to the show and so we want to honor that appropriately. What is so interesting is that season 3, to me, is the closest thing that we've done as a one-to-one adaptation of the books. Obviously, we can't do every page, but Time of Contempt gave us so many big action events, plot points, defining character moments, huge reveals of a big bad. There's so much to do that we were able to stick really, really closely with the books."
It’s sad that Cavill ended up dropping out of the series, but he’s got bigger things that he’s working on with Warhammer 40,000. In the meantime, fans will be able to enjoy him in Season 3 of The Witcher.
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.
Enjoy the trailer!
