Henry Cavill has been cast as the lead character in the straight-to-series Netflix drama, The Witcher that will have a first season of 8 episodes.
The Witcher is based on the bestselling fantasy book series from the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski.
Henry Cavill will appear as Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter who lives in a world where the people around him are often more vicious than the monsters he hunt.
His path eventually crosses with a powerful sorceress and a young princess with a dangerous secret, and together the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will be showrunner and executive producer alongside Alik Sakharov.
Andrzej Sapkowski's 8 novels and story collections are collectively known as The Witcher saga and has been translated in to more than 20 languages and have since been turned into a video game franchise.
The Witcher marks Henry Cavill's return to television since his appearance in The Tudors that was broadcast on M-Net (DStv 101) after which he switched television for film.
