Earlier than The Witcher was a well-liked Netflix collection, it was a well-liked online game collection. And earlier than it was a well-liked online game collection, it was a ebook collection that solely gained worldwide recognition after the online game franchise did. However whereas it was The Witcher video video games that boosted the books into the mainstream, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich turned to Andrzej Sapkwoski‘s novels and brief story collections because the supply materials for the Netflix adaptation. Nevertheless, that did not cease Hissrich from together with some delicate nods to the video games within the TV present, and she or he promised TV Information that followers can count on much more Easter eggs in future seasons.
“We love the video games,” Hissrich stated. “Clearly what we needed to do is return to the supply materials, to not do an adaptation of an adaptation. However it does not imply that we’re not followers of the video games ourselves, that we do not play them ourselves, and that we all know that an enormous a part of our viewers has solely heard of The Witcher due to the video video games. So we do, we wish to pay homage to it, to them as usually as doable. And likewise I have been to CD Projekt Pink. I’ve met all of all of these actually gifted folks there. And what they do is wonderful. So, if we will supply them a wink and a nod at any time when we will, we’ll.”
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The Witcher Season 1 included its share of online game references, together with a nod to that iconic Geralt (Henry Cavill) bathtub scene. Followers of the video games would even have acknowledged the dragon’s egg Geralt and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) protected as the identical one that may seemingly at some point hatch Saskia, a golden dragon and Jackdaw’s daughter. With eight extra episodes heading our method in 2021, we will solely think about all of the methods Hissrich and The Witcher group could pay homage to the video video games.
The Witcher Season 2 will premiere on Netflix in 2021.
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