Polish book series “The Witcher”
by author Andrzej Sapkowski is easily one of the more recognizable multimedia
franchises around. Starting with Polish comic books followed by a Polish-made
movie and series adaptation, it has since expanded into a three-installment videogame
series from Atari and CD Projeckt, as well as an ongoing title on Dark Horse
Comics and finally a Netflix streaming series starring Henry Cavill in his
first big role following a stint as Superman for Warner Bros. The first season
in 2019 was highly in demand, but work on season 2 was temporarily halted,
again, by COVID-19. Thankfully, the okay was given to resume.
Comic Book Resources tells us that principal photography for
Netflix’s “The Witcher” was ready to pick up where it left off in March, when
quarantines and restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic forced
production of the second season to halt after only starting in February 2020.
The estimated time for when cameras will roll once again is next month, on
August 17. But beforehand, production personnel have already started work on
set pieces at the shooting location in the United Kingdom, and show-runner
Lauren S. Hissrich has already returned there from the US.
While work on “The Witcher” might
have originally tried to weather the COVID-19 storm, the team was forced to
follow all other production stoppages when an additional cast member for the
show’s season 2, Norwegian actor Kristofer Hivju, announced that he had
contracted the infectious disease. Hissrich notes that before photography was
stopped, the production had already shot two whole episodes. The mid-March
through July hiatus is believed to have significantly pushed back the expected return
date of the series, which is slated for some time in 2021, with the actual month
kept purposely vague.
Speculation on the plot for “The Witcher”
season 2 pegs that the series could adapt the events of Andrzej Sapkowski’s third
book “Blood of Elves,” just as season 1 did for the first two volumes “The Last
Wish” and “Sword of Destiny.” This is substantiated by news that Thue Ersted
Rasmussen, Paul Bullion, Yasen Atour and Kim Bodnia have been cast as Eskel,
Lambert, Coën and Vesemir, all Witchers similar to Henry Cavill’s main
character Geralt of Rivia, and also appearing in the third book. The inaugural
season of “The Witcher” can be streamed from Netflix since arriving December
2019.
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