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Netflix working on "The Witcher" TV show
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True Savior
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Live action Yennefer ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV7iZhvRHx4
intervew with Bagiński from 2015 where he talks about witcher movie and himself. I'm pretty pumped.
intervew with Bagiński from 2015 where he talks about witcher movie and himself. I'm pretty pumped.
Discotheque
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best Witcher waifu. Eva Green dressing as her would probably kill me.
Coreda
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I'd be down if if lived up to the quality of the promotional trailers. Hope they get good voice talent, the Polish version spoiled me.
Night To Remember
Killing Monsters
It's not so much that Ciri's actress needs to get naked (I can remember maybe one scene in the books where Ciri is naked and they could easily write around that part). However, Ciri does get into some pretty serious situations that are pretty important for her characterization that I doubt an actress like Saorsie would agree to, mainly
her being part of a thieving and murdering gang of marauders and being brutally tortured.
If they make Ciri in any way Geralt (and Yen's) damsel in distress though, they fucked up. Ciri is pretty much the anti-damsel in distress.
She's way more bloodthirsty and deadly than Geralt in the books.
Darkstorne
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Way too early for that to happen yet, though I've no doubt it will at some point. They'd overtake Sanderson before he's even a third done with the series.
But that short story format is exactly why The Witcher 3 worked so well (with the side quests frequently being the best parts of the game), and why it's so well suited for TV rather than film. Sapkowski built this world and its characters specifically to work well within this format of mini self-contained adventures being front and centre. It's a big reason why the full length novels aren't as popular.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Platige did the Killing Monsters trailer for The Witcher 3, and I'm fairly certain the opening "The Trail" clip too, if that's any indication of what they can accomplish with the series and CGI.
Killing Monsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0i88t0Kacs
The Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYouPnUETI
That one is done by Digic Pictures.
The books are NOT bad at all.
I disagree. If they want to make this a high-profile fantasy series that rivals Game of Thrones they have to do the saga instead of the short stories. People want to follow specific characters and except for Geralt, you wouldn't have that if you made the short stories into a show. Yeah, Dandelion and Yennefer would occasionally show up, but that's about it. 'Monster of the Week' shows simply do not work anymore if you want longevity. Meanwhile if you film the saga, you have Geralt, Yennefer, the other sorceresses, Ciri, Dandelion, Milva, Cahir, Regis, etc. All characters with great potential. Plus if they do it correctly, Vilgefortz could easily become one of the most terrifying villains on tv.
Also, where are you getting that that's the reason the full length novels aren't as popular as the games? I'm pretty sure it has more to do with the fact that they were released in English only in the last five years and got little to no promotion. Let's not forget that these books were insanely popular in the 90's in Eastern Europe, spawning a comic book series, a television series, a film and multiple (failed) game concepts before being turned into a succesful game by CD Projekt Red in 2007.
Well the movie turned into a series now (I don't think they'd do both) and he was talking about actors so it's likely the series would be Live Action.
Discotheque
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Captain Vane in black sails is basically a Geralt audition. He would be excellent casting.
Darkstorne
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I'm definitely not saying "no over-arching story at all", I just mean that TV lends itself beautifully to self-contained stories per episode on top of that, which is where The Witcher excels. A lot of popularity for the Witcher came about because of Sapkowski's approach to short stories and how they played with common themes and stories but twisted them in unique ways. That's something the full length novels moved away from, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but for many people wasn't as fun to read. I'm very much hoping the TV series features a brand new story that Sapkowski assists with, drawing on that strength of short stories, but still featuring an over-arching plot that develops nicely.
EDIT: Weirdly, Supernatural would be a good model for this. Great self-contained monster hunts per episode, that all contribute to a greater narrative. Preferably the Witcher will have a good narrative
blainethemono
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in many ways i felt like Black Sails as a whole was an audition for those producers to adapt the Witcher books
the tone and pacing they struck with that series would have been a perfect match
Ah, right. Please forgive my ignorance, haha. I don't think those situations would necessarily be a deal-breaker; how they define Ciri as a character would be of utmost importance.
Polish or English one?
RustyNails
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Omg YES YES YES
cheezcake
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I'm assuming the show will be English
Finn of Ooo
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Wonder if the author took the residuals this time lol.
Inferno313
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Netflix produces shows with just as-big budgets as HBO does.
Press release describes it as "Brought to Life as English Language Drama Series" so that sounds like a yes to me.
ThoseDeafMutes
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And he feels a bit over-saturated lately for such a distinctive character actor. Send him off to do bizarre Danish films again for a few years.
RustyNails
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Omg cant wait. This is the best news.
Abilidebob
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I'm so damn conflicted over if I want it to be CG or live-action.
CG can lead to way better fighting scenes and action. On the other hand, doing a 3min short that was probably done in 6 months or more is way different than doing 10 20-minute episodes in a year, so the quality of everything may suffer.
Live-action can lead to some great performances and probably get more attention. Buuuuuuut it can also lead to jarring as fuck scenes especially when monsters are involved.
CG can lead to way better fighting scenes and action. On the other hand, doing a 3min short that was probably done in 6 months or more is way different than doing 10 20-minute episodes in a year, so the quality of everything may suffer.
Live-action can lead to some great performances and probably get more attention. Buuuuuuut it can also lead to jarring as fuck scenes especially when monsters are involved.
cj_iwakura
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Cautious optimism, but I doubt they'll have the budget to make the show look as good as those openings.
This is easy to scoff at but actually a solid suggestion. He'd certainly nail Geralt's characteristic gruff indifference that is very occasionally punctuated by deeper feelings for people he truly cares for.
I can already hear the nicknames he will give the two women.
heavy liquid
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Wouldn't that conflict with Colony? Unless it's been canceled. Although Netflix might be able to film around it.
SpideySenses
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Always thought Jim Caviezel would make a great Geralt, his face and voice are perfect, only problem might be age.
There's more than one. The author seems a bit too comfortable with writing sexual situations involving a teenage girl.
sixteen-bit
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First Castlevania, now this
Really? I can honestly remember one, maybe two.
Anyway, I have a pretty high tolerance for sexual situations involving teenage girls in fantasy fiction. You kinda have to if you've read A Song of Ice and Fire :lol
SargerusBR
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Idris Elba as Geralt.
But Sapkowski is involved so this will never happen.
Castlevania is an animated project tho.
But Sapkowski is involved so this will never happen.
Castlevania is an animated project tho.
Some parts are fine. I think she thinks about Jarre at some point, or some other teenage boy in a town, I forget.
Her relationship with Mistle.
There was that one guy (friend to the Rats) at the beginning of book ?4 who she was considering bedding but he died so anyway.
This is the part where it got creepy and kind of soured me. Being blackmailed into sleeping with the elven king or be a prisoner at the tower forever.
The whole Vilgefortz laboratory impregnation thing. I'm still at this point in the last book, so please don't spoil beyond that.
Her relationship with Mistle.
There was that one guy (friend to the Rats) at the beginning of book ?4 who she was considering bedding but he died so anyway.
This is the part where it got creepy and kind of soured me. Being blackmailed into sleeping with the elven king or be a prisoner at the tower forever.
The whole Vilgefortz laboratory impregnation thing. I'm still at this point in the last book, so please don't spoil beyond that.
Abilidebob
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I mean
she was raped by Mistle, no questions asked. The dude that she almost had sex with also had a weird, creepy situation around it(pestering her about sex constantly over days, only to die in the middle of foreplay). There's not much,
but some of Sapkowsky's stuff is... weird to say the least.
but some of Sapkowsky's stuff is... weird to say the least.
sixteen-bit
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First Castlevania now this i wonder what game is next