THE WITCHER Season 3 Trailer Features Henry Cavill's Geralt Unleashing Bloody Fury
Netflix has dropped a full trailer for Season 3 of the fantasy drama series The Witcher. The trailer teases exciting and intense action-packed sequences, and Henry Cavill‘s Geralt of Rivia unleashed the bloody fury! Anya Chalotra’s Yennefer of Vengerberg and Freya Allan’s Ciri engage in quite a bit of action as well. If you’re a fan of the series, then this trailer is sure to get you excited about what’s coming.
This will be the last time that we see Cavill in the role of Geralt, and this is a chapter of the story where the badass monster hunter character actually, for the first time, starts to understand real fear. Series creator and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich previously said that this season feels like "the most heroic sendoff" for the actor.
When Cavill exited the show, he was replaced by Liam Hemsworth, who will play the character in Seasons 4 and 5, which was recently announced. Fans are still upset by this huge change, but the creative team and Netflix are really hoping that fans show up and continue to watch.
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 showrunner 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."
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 trailer!