Netflix's The Witcher series -

[D.Va]

Took me by surprise: Netflix is developing an original series based on the books of The Witcher. Included in this is the author of the series and the dude who directed the intro videos for the game series. Thoughts?

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2017/05/17/netflix-to-produce-the-witcher-tv-series

Netflix will develop and produce a new show based on The Witcher Saga, the series of eight novels by Andrzej Sapkowski that inspired the hugely popular CD Projekt Red RPG games.

Sapkowski - who does not profit from the game series - will serve as a creative consultant on the series. “I’m thrilled that Netflix will be doing an adaptation of my stories," he explained in a press release, "staying true to the source material and the themes that I have spent over thirty years writing."

Tomas Baginski - who directed the intro videos for all three Witcher games as well as the Cyberpunk 2077 teaser trailer, and who also previously announced as being the director of a movie version of The Witcher - will direct at least one episode per season.

It's not clear as yet what specific stories the series will follow. Executive producers Sean Daniel and Jason Brown (The Expanse), said: “The Witcher stories follow an unconventional family that comes together to fight for truth in a dangerous world. The characters are original, funny and constantly surprising and we can’t wait to bring them to life at Netflix, the perfect home for innovative storytelling.”

Platige Image, a Polish production and visual effects house will co-produce. Executive producers Baginski and Jarek Sawko emphasised that the books' subtexts will not be lost in the adaptation: "There is a moral and intellectual depth in these books which goes beyond genre. It is a story about today and today’s challenges, hidden under a fantasy cover. It is a story about us, about the monster and the hero inside all of our hearts.”

No release date, casting, or further directorial choices have been revealed at time of writing.

 

[Baobinga]

I just hope they dont fuck it up like all the other videogame / anime series that have been turned into shows. The recent casting of L in Deathnote as a black guy really pissed me off.

 

[OtterParty]

they tried to make a movie of it, but that went over like a lead balloon

arguably the main problem is length since there's so much more you can fit into a video game for consumers to explore so maybe this will do better

 

[Rumpled Foreskin]

Lol

 

[knightlautrec]

This looks bad. White hair doesn't suit him at all.

 

[Secret Asshole]

It looks like they tried Joaquin Phoenix's Joker reveal but had no understanding of why it was good or worked.

He looks like a gay elf. He needs a beard or five o'clock shadow or some scars or something.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Lol

The hair is bad. To be fair the hair has always looked bad. It just looks even worse in real life than in vidya art or book covers.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Did they just throw a wig on him and say, "Yeah, that looks good."

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

I mean, it's an early makeup test. The troubling thing isn't that it doesn't look good so much as they thought it looked good enough to advertise with it.

 

[Shokaract]

Lol

 

[Ruin]

This is why I like old school horror/suspense novels. There's little to no chance that some hipster faggot is going to turn Edward Lee or Richard Layman's shit into a shrine to big black cock and third wave feminism.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I hope the author is a total asshole to the Netflix tards since he is known for being one.

 

[JuanButNotForgotten]

Say hello to Triss, folks!

https://screenrant.com/witcher-netflix-triss-merigold-anna-shaffer/

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Hell no!

 

[JuanButNotForgotten]

Hell no!

Have you seen who is playing Yennefer? White Ciri will be very lonely among all these characters. Although Netflix's dug another pit to itself with this - the chosen one, the savior of the world, the one who will fight the End of everything to save all these POC's IS WHITE.

 

[Ruin]

Say hello to Triss, folks!

https://screenrant.com/witcher-netflix-triss-merigold-anna-shaffer/

At least the Pajeet they picked to play Yen is kinda hot. Triss's actor is borderline crack whore tier.

 

[Mammamia in Naziland]

Say hello to Triss, folks!

https://screenrant.com/witcher-netflix-triss-merigold-anna-shaffer/

Because of course a sorceress who can (and has) altered her appearance to become inhumanly hot will settle for that beak of a nose (this applies to the Yennerfer actress, too).

This vitiligo-ridden WoC is supposed to be an elf:

Wow, much hot, so elfin.
Full additional cast here (>30% PoCs):

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I see they are pandering to the street shitting audience.

Also I'm suprised they didn't cast any east asians.

 

[OldGuy]

Say hello to Triss, folks!

Triss is a redhead, gingers always get turned into niggers in tv/movie adaptions, not really surprisning..
I knew this was going to be shit the moment i heard "Netflix"

 

[PantsFreeZone]

Say hello to Triss, folks!

https://screenrant.com/witcher-netflix-triss-merigold-anna-shaffer/

Nailed it.

Cavill looks like old Legolas with a buttchin implant.