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[Dongs Macabre]

Hopefully they focus on the short stories over the novels. They can't not adapt The Lesser Evil.

 

[mm04]

Okay, I'm down. I totally fell in love with the world and story of Witcher 3. With Netflix attached to this, I would assume the production values to be pretty good, at the least.

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Team Triss!

 

[Zasa]

Holy shit, yes please. Netflix stays winning. Just hope they give it a heathy budget now that the pretty awful Marco Polo is cancelled.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Okay, I'm down. I totally fell in love with the world and story of Witcher 3. With Netflix attached to this, I would assume the production values to be pretty good, at the least.

Spoiler

Team Triss!

Triss is little more than an regular side character in the novels which this is based on. Fringilla ranks way above her in the waifu wars there as well.

 

[Kinyou]

Awesome, awesome ,awesome.
Tomek Baginski directed the intro movies for the witcher games, with him attached to it I have a lot of faith in this.

 

[phaze]

Can't wait for people to complain about the season adapting Blood of Elves.

 

[FinaruDensetsu]

I hope the author makes a better deal this time than he did with the games.

 

[Kickz]

What would you want that to be? A reboot or the same characters living their lives in their 30s in the late 1990s?

Yes same characters living their lives in the 90s

 

[Vibranium]

Super excited that it is following the books, this could be great. Plus they can change parts of the saga that don't flow as well. Geralt and Yen will be important casting choices. Also, I would love it if Regis appears. I don't expect Ciri to be in the first season, maybe only for a few episodes.

Hopefully they focus on the short stories over the novels. They can't not adapt The Lesser Evil.

Yeah, adapting the short stories should be what they follow from the start.

 

[louiedog]

So people seem to think this is going to be Netflix's Game of Thrones and there's going to be lots of sex.

I'd like to suggest the OT be titled "Witcher is coming"

 

[spuckthew]

If they can make this as good as GoT it could be my favourite thing ever.

 

[Alcotholic]

Im gonna be cautious approaching this till I see the trailer. Casting and writing is going to be crucial to this project. Finding someone who can look and act the part is gonna be difficult.

 

[CrichtonKicks]

Can't wait for people to complain about the season adapting Blood of Elves.

It's like 300 pages. They could do it in 2-3 episodes.

 

[Inferno313]

Im gonna be cautious approaching this till I see the trailer. Casting and writing is going to be crucial to this project. Finding someone who can look and act the part is gonna be difficult.

Yup. A real dearth of muscular, bearded, white male actors out there.

 

[RustyNails]

Witcher series should do its own thing like GOT. Follow the books but also not be afraid of veering away and following videogames as well.

Every episode better have a monster hunt though. I could watch a series like this. In fact just hire the dude who plays Geralt.

 

[CloudWolf]

Triss is little more than an regular side character in the novels which this is based on. Fringilla ranks way above her in the waifu wars there as well.

Yep, the only reason Triss is such a big deal in the games is because CD Projekt Red didn't want to use Yennefer and Ciri for the first game yet, so they put Triss in the place Yennefer should be in and created Alvin aka Discount Ciri aka

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the best main villain in the Witcher games

Super excited that it is following the books, this could be great. Plus they can change parts of the saga that don't flow as well. Geralt and Yen will be important casting choices. Also, I would love it if Regis appears. I don't expect Ciri to be in the first season, maybe only for a few episodes.

Well, if they should do Regis, they have to do Ciri, considering Regis doesn't show up until much later.

 

[Malmorian]

PLEASE cast Mads Mikkelson as Geralt. Fucking please. Spend the money on great contacts and you can't ask for a better lead. He's even got the accent and the experience, Hannibal sold me as my man-crush

 

[Alcotholic]

Yup. A real dearth of muscular, bearded, white male actors out there.

Yes, because that's all Geralt is.

 

[RustyNails]

I'm just so excited for this show. Witcher 3 has been my game of the generation, and I can't remember loving a videogame so much. I really hope they also bring their music group (Percival) and music director (Marcin Przybylowicz) along. Absolutely legit music team.

 

[Blue Lou]

I think Julian Assange is throwing his hat in the ring to play Geralt.

 

[Carn82]

bump. Netflix updated the description.. much better now!

The witcher Geralt, a mutated monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

 

[SpaceWolf]

Hope they dedicate an entire season to Gwent.

 

[AlimNassor]

We live in an era where Witcher has now reached mainstream appeal.

 

[LegendofDragoonLives]

PLEASE cast Mads Mikkelson as Geralt. Fucking please. Spend the money on great contacts and you can't ask for a better lead. He's even got the accent and the experience, Hannibal sold me as my man-crush

for real, i'm down

 

[maximum360]

for real, i'm down

That would be a great fit.

 

[TheLetdown]

bump. Netflix updated the description.. much better now!

That's a pretty spot on description.

Monster hunting is the vehicle for the character, but it's all about the horrors people inflict on each other, and the ways they try to use Geralt to achieve them.

Hopefully they focus on the short stories over the novels. They can't not adapt The Lesser Evil.

YES, please.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

there has to be a contract at the centre of each episode / arc. The quality of the books dropped so much when monster hunting got sidelined.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

Hope they dedicate an entire season to Yennefer

FTFY

 

[nubbe]

We live in an era where Witcher has now reached mainstream appeal.

Want to tap that Game of Thrones money

 

[WaffleTaco]

The monster hunting will take a back seat, unless they go the Supernatural route of having one off episodes. And considering Netflix usually doesn't like shows that don't move the plot forward, it will be a very story-based show.

 

[Auctopus]

bump. Netflix updated the description.. much better now!

Instantly gave me a "Hunting Monsters" vibe. Probably expecting too much.