Netflix’s primary content officer exposed today that the Witcher program, an adjustment of the Polish dream epic-cum-video video game dynasty, is going to show up on the streaming service later on this year– in the nick of time to fill deep space left by a particular other dream program’s conclusion.

CCO Ted Sarandos validated the designated 4th quarter release throughout a revenues call, according to Range His tone when he explains The Witcher is nearly charmingly jejune– he states it’s “a huge brand-new initial series that we’re presently shooting in Hungary called The Witcher, that is a huge European IP, popular video game and Schedule IP, that we believe is going to make an actually enjoyable worldwide series.”

I would have believed nearly everybody was clued into what The Witcher was around the time Netflix handled to coax Henry Cavill far from Warner Bros to play Geralt, the titular character (who, by the way, looks significantly less like a grizzled piece of meat here than he carries out in the video game). The program itself was revealed nearly 2 years back, with a few of the designers who developed cinematics for the computer game supposedly belonging to the production.

The last video game in the series, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, was launched in2015 Reports swirl about CD Projekt Red, the video games’ designers, dealing with a brand-new Witcher video game, embeded in the exact same universe however not starring Geralt. At the minute, they seem focused completely on their upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 The Netflix program will supposedly be based the series of books and narratives by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, however as the video games are exceptionally popular all over the world (33 million copies offered, at last count), I ‘d be really stunned if product from them didn’t leak into the program in some way.

It’s respectable timing that Netflix will have this hot dream series set to go less than a year after the ending of Video Game of Thrones The 2 aren’t actually associated thematically– The Witcher is more about someone (Geralt) and his fate, while GoT‘s main source of appeal are the interactions in between the members of its ensemble cast. However there are rather a great deal of complicated politics, appealing individuals making hot eyes at each other, and a ravaging glacial epoch taking place at some time in both worlds. Yeah, I ‘d be really stunned if the marketing for this program will not highlight the similarity simply a bit.

Up until now, the other series in the works that might slake the thirst for complicated dream stories– specifically, Amazon’s Prime Lord of the Rings series and Netflix’s own Chronicles of Narnia adjustment– are still supposedly in pre-production.

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