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Netflix's The Witcher Teaser Trailer
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ljubomir
Member
It looks terrible. Too... american? Like a crappy game of thrones clone. Literally has none of the novels tone, Slavic setting, mood of everyday life being overwhelmed by the war and bad times. Characters are so unauthentic it hurts. Its almost like an american got the books transcribed to him, and he understood fraction of it and turned into a crappy modern action drama with no substance to it.
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
what the hell happened to Triss?
otherwise it looks promising.
otherwise it looks promising.
and you base that on a 2 minute trailer? ok lmfao.
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cormack12
Gold Member
OK, that sold me. Not perfect but much better than I thought.
I had concerns about Yen, but she at least made me think she can pull the character off.
Cavill is still huge, that arm shot was crazy, in contrast to being wiry or coiled muscle.
Ciri actually looked young.
Some of the monster teases were bit 'hmmmm' - not sure how they're going to look in scene.
I had concerns about Yen, but she at least made me think she can pull the character off.
Cavill is still huge, that arm shot was crazy, in contrast to being wiry or coiled muscle.
Ciri actually looked young.
Some of the monster teases were bit 'hmmmm' - not sure how they're going to look in scene.
Dacon
Banned
Honestly, it looks like a high production value fan film. I also didnt get the feeling from this trailer that this show is about Geralt at all.
I'm getting a lot of "eh" vibes from this. It looks very generic medieval fantasy, and doesn't feel very evocative of the Witcher universe.
I'm getting a lot of "eh" vibes from this. It looks very generic medieval fantasy, and doesn't feel very evocative of the Witcher universe.
Ivory Blood
Member
This image sums up my feelings towards this perfectly.
Ivory Blood
Member
Couldn't have said it better.
Both in terms of the awful color grading, as well as environmental design, it looks like some generic classic high-fantasy LOTR'esque world. I would have expected something much more.. low-key fantasy. Dark, grey'ish colors, with a worn down, starved world.
The other obvious issues (cast, CGI) don't help much either.
bosnianpie
Member
It's not easy to do a TV show about a franchise that's already so established in literature and games but I think this looks really good. I'm excited and hope we will have a good show for many seasons to come. Well done.
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JimmyRustler
Member
Damn, this looked cool.
bati
Member
That's exactly the point. If you want to do a fresh book adaption, fine, take some liberty with casting. But Witcher games sold millions of copies all over the world, were exceptionally well received and praised for character writing, design and VOs. You can't just shit on all of that.
bosnianpie
Member
I loved Witcher 3, it's probably the game I've played most this generation but I don't mind them doing their own thing in the TV series. You still have the characters, the world, different factions and a story you will feel familiar with. Give it a season, I'm sure it will grow on you eventually.
danielberg
Neophyte
I need something after vikings and game of thrones and this looks very good.. please be good lol
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Handy Fake
Member
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
i'm WAY more excited for His Dark Materials. Those books are brilliant yet with The Witcher the books bored me to death. The fact is that The Witcher wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for what CD Projekt Red done with the games.
I'm excited for both TV shows and I do think Witcher will be more popular and is more likely to be "the next GoT". HDM is fantastic but there isn't as much source material to work with compared to Witcher unless they end up adapting La Belle Sauvage + Secret Commonwealth + Book of Dust 3. I think HDM is planned for 6 seasons (not 100% sure) which is concerning since there are only 3 books unless they split each book into 2 seasons or plan on adding Book Of Dust trilogy.
The good thing about both these shows is that the books are out unlike ASOIAF. Well, Secret Commonwealth isn't out but it's coming this year and I expect Pullman will get BoD3 out before GRRM gets Winds of Winter out and well before season 6 airs (if it's based on BoD3). Anyway, HDM is only based on Northern Lights/Subtle Knife/Amber Spyglass. Book Of Dust trilogy isn't confirmed to be part of this series.
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jonnyp
Member
His current physique is not possible without juice.
Romulus
Member
Isn't there only like one shot of him shirtless?
Fuz
Banned
I've read somewhere else she may be her. I hope she's not.
EDIT: Just googled around, and yeah, that's her. Porcodio.
No, the one you're thinking about is Yen
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AlteredForms
Banned
Don't forget about this shit being out there:
Fbh
Member
Watching it again. It would have been nice if everything wasn't as grey.
Hopefully at some point someone in charge of these movies and Tv shows figures out you can make a dark and "mature" world that still has color in it
Didn't someone make a thread a whole ago about Redheads getting nerfed or replaced. From MJ in Spiderman to the Little Mermaid.
They can add this one to the list lol.
My mental image of her is definitely the one from the games but to my knowledge she is also described as an attractive redhead in the books, right?
Hopefully at some point someone in charge of these movies and Tv shows figures out you can make a dark and "mature" world that still has color in it
Didn't someone make a thread a whole ago about Redheads getting nerfed or replaced. From MJ in Spiderman to the Little Mermaid.
They can add this one to the list lol.
My mental image of her is definitely the one from the games but to my knowledge she is also described as an attractive redhead in the books, right?
LOTRfanTA2941
Neo Member
cool trailer but his eyes didn't look right. does anyone know if some of the show takes place before he became a witcher?
GreenAlien
Member
Looks way better than I expected after that first Geralt teaser, still , some of the actress choices are not entirely satisfying but that won't be a deal breaker on it's own..
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Dacon
Banned
More redhead genocide:
Is Hollywood prejudiced against redheads?
I mean every time there's a redhead character they usually get replaced by somebody black and sometimes white. This happens far too often to be just a coincidence. >inb4 somebody says no and posts ScaJo Black Widow as their sole example Hooray! One of the most iconic redheads is now black too!
MightySquirrel
Banned
Looks funny indeed.
Hero Of Gallowmere
Member
The Russian comments under the video are pretty rough...
Lots of complaining about Yen and Triss being ugly.
Lots of complaining about Yen and Triss being ugly.
And some nasty comments about black people being in the show.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Netflix put their money where their mouth is. When they want something, they are throwing bank to get it. Rumor has it, they gave 100 million for the first season of House Of Cards. When it comes to big money deals like this, Netflix is doing something unheard of in the medium.
Just a taste of some of the wildest Netflix deals.
Inside Shonda Rhimes' $150 Million Netflix Deal And How It Could Change TV
The mega-producer has eight new series on tap for the streaming service, which has placed a huge bet on her. Don't expect another Grey's Anatomy, she warns.
www.forbes.com
That 150 million is rumored to really be 200 million and that is JUST HER BASE SALARY, they said "to start" lol So they wanted Ms.Thursday night, they got her.
Crazy right? Then you get this
Ryan Murphy Moves To Netflix In Blockbuster 5-Year, $300 Million Deal - TVLine
Ryan Murphy is Netflix's first ever $300 million man. The streamer has poached the prolific producer from his longtime 21st Century Fox perch via a blockbuster…
tvline.com
lol
Then
Dave Chappelle is reportedly making $60 million for his Netflix comedy specials
Comedian Dave Chappelle will deliver three comedy specials to Netflix in 2017. Reported pay for the deal puts him on par with Chris Rock.
www.businessinsider.com
Then
Jason Bateman, Aggregate strike Netflix deal
Star doubles down after Ozark success.
www.screendaily.com
and
Netflix Spent $12 Billion on Content in 2018. Analysts Expect That to Grow to $15 Billion This Year
Netflix's binge-spending on content isn't expected to slow down.
variety.com
They are not shy about getting content and will put up to get it. Trust me, HBO, AMC and many more likely were in talks to get Witcher series....how many of them are legit looking to REALLY fund it and pay the real price to produce that type of content?
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Ummm surrrre. At this point, must just don't listen to religious fans. They see 30 seconds of something and then start to rant about the authenticity of the buttons of shirts, start complaining that the mist in the forest is not of the real density that it is in the book, subjective junk like "mood" which btw none of us are in your head, we know not of your "mood" as you can feel this way about basically anything anyone makes about The Witcher. So from what I've seen, people like this are to be ignored big time.
No show was ever going to help you bud, you've created the perfect show in your mind and even the hardcore fans will disagree with you as...guess what? They've created the um "best one" in their minds too.
When you go hard edge like this, people tend not to really take it seriously. This is season 1 of which could be several seasons and years of a show, that in 2 minutes you are trying to judge "substance". Keep in mind, we can't speak about what you see in "mood", we can on physical things. What in this is like "Game Of Thrones" that actually doesn't apply to the actual source material of both books? So to say this is like Game Of Thrones is to say the same thing about the book itself. Its beyond moot. We get it...BOTH Game Of Thrones and Witcher by default will be similar as they are in settings that are....well similar. It would be like saying Game Of Thrones show is trying to be like Lord Of The Rings film (ignores source material)
LordOfChaos
Member
You're right. I was trying to be optimistic but that's what was bugging me. The books paint a grim, war torn world, while this looks too clean, almost like that awful Shannara adaptation (how in the balls did that mess get two seasons, they ruined every good part of the books)
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EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
"looks too clean" Based on what specifically? As in what are you seeing that must not be clean?
LordOfChaos
Member
The people and the armor come to mind. It's all burnished, polished, not well worn and used. The Witcher took place in a land where everyone was sick and tired of the war and peasants were little more than chattel.
I dunno. Something like this a bit.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
"The people" oh so everyone? So the kings, queens and all the royal families and everyone in high society had dirt all over and? So it makes sense on what I've seen on why some of those "people" don't look that way as this trailer is about the main folks in the series, many who are not that poor. The first seconds of the trailer you clearly can see some filthy people and peasants, they don't look um "clean" to me. Save it to when you can actually see "everyone" vs a 2 min trailer. It just makes no sense to nit pick such a thing.
LordOfChaos
Member
That would be why I'm waiting to see more. We're here to discuss the trailer because that's all we have. Chill.