by Thinus Ferreira
Netflix has renewed The Witcher with Henry Cavill for a third season ahead of its second season debut on 17 December this year, the video streaming service announced on Saturday evening during its first Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event.
Netflix also announced that it's expanding the "Witcher-verse", with a kids and family series based on The Witcher universe, as well as a second anime film that will follow after the recently released The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.
The second season of The Witcher will debut on 17 December on Netflix with Henry Cavill's Geralt of Rivia, under the impression that Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) had died at the Battle of Sodden, taking Princess Cirilla (Freya Allan) to his childhood home of Kaer Morhen.
Meanwhile the Continent's kings, elves, humans and demons strive for supremacy outside its walls while Geralt tries to protect the girl from something far more dangerous: the mysterious power she possesses inside.
At The Witcher's virtual panel at the Tudum: A Netflix Global Fan Event, the creative team of the spin-off prequel series, The Witcher: Blood Origin, shared some behind-the-scenes footage.
The Witcher: Blood Origin is set 1200 years before the current series and will chronicle the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal "Conjunction of the Spheres" when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
The Witcher: Blood Origin stars Laurence O'Fuarain, Michelle Yeoh,Sophia Brown, Lenny Henry, Mirren Mack, Nathaniel Curtis, Dylan Moran. Jacob Collins Levy, Lizzie Annis, Huw Novelli, Francesca Mills, Amy Murry and Zach Wyatt.
Declan de Barra will act as executive producer and showrunner of The Witcher: Blood Origin.
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Matt O'Toole are executive producers. Andrzej Sapkowski will serve as creative consultant. Jason Brown and Sean Daniel from Hivemind, and Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko from Platige Films will all serve as executive producers.
