Manufacturing on The Witcher’s third season is now formally underway,
The hit fantasy drama, which debuted its second season in December, is now again in manufacturing, as formally confirmed by Netflix (opens in new tab) with an on-set picture displaying stars Henry Cavill (Geralt), Anya Chalotra (Yennefer) and Freya Allan (Ciri) having fun with a well-earned break between takes in a really snowy location.
Our household is again collectively once more. #TheWitcher Season 3 is formally in manufacturing! pic.twitter.com/rlBl0j3lT1April 4, 2022
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In addition to the announcement that the present is again in enterprise, Netflix has additionally revealed the plot synopsis for The Witcher season 3. You’ll be able to learn it in full under:
It is no shock to see the present again in manufacturing simply 4 months after the debut of season two.
When TechRadar spoke to The Witcher’s showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (opens in new tab) as season two was about to premiere on Netflix, she revealed that the present’s third run was very practically written and about to be refined.
Pressed for particulars on what we may anticipate from season three, Hissrich revealed that creator Andrzej Sapkowski’s second major novel in The Witcher saga, The Time of Contempt, would offer the majority of the fabric for the brand new run.
She stated: “I’m actually thrilled with how season 3 is shaping up. As a result of it’s based mostly on my favourite e-book within the saga, which is The Time of Contempt [and] I really feel like seasons 1 and a couple of have been laying the enjoying area for every thing big that’s about to occur.”
In addition to that, Hissrich additionally revealed to Collider (opens in new tab) {that a} “large story from Blood of Elves”, the primary novel in The Witcher saga, would type a part of the third season’s story.
Will The Witcher’s third season be its final?
Good god, no. Netflix (opens in new tab) has large plans for The Witcher, with a prequel, The Witcher: Blood Origin due out in 2022. Set 1200 years earlier than Netflix’s mainline Witcher sequence, Blood Origin will cowl the creation of the primary Witcher. The present can even comply with occasions main as much as and in the course of the Conjunction of the Spheres, the cataclysm that ends in the collision of a number of universes and their human, elven and monstrous races.
In addition to that, a family-friendly animated sequence and a second anime film to comply with 2021’s The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf, have been each introduced in September 2021.
Netflix hasn’t renewed The Witcher for a fourth season but, however Hissrich is planning seven seasons and stars Henry Cavill and Freya Allen have made agency commitments to staying the course.
You’ll be able to anticipate to see much more of The Witcher within the subsequent few years and we’ll hold you up to date on the third season’s progress right here with our complete information. (opens in new tab)
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