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Confirmed Witcher Characters for Netflix series and their descriptions
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In the books she is young teenager, interesting thing to see is if they age her up or not.
The downside with Amazon is that they don't always put their movies up on Prime. At least not in europe.
Why? It's the same characters, and the short stories are incredibly good. Would translate much better to a tv series than the games would. Seems you might just want The Witcher 4..?
The games are already very cinematic, makes more sense to adapt story than to replicate what is already an audiovisual work.
Not many characters from Blood of Elves there. Not sure where they are starting from with this.
Oh that's odd. I think everything is on Prime in the USA.
I mean, the covers of his books now literally look like covers for the games, and he's supposedly badgered constantly by dipshits who think he writes tie-ins instead of being the original source material. He could be about a thousand times less egotistical than he is, but I could see why that might annoy an author.
Maybe in his mind (and knowing how highly he seems to think of himself), this is an opportunity to do something new with the Witcher in a multimedia format and establish himself in the way GRRM, Tolkien or others are known around the world.
I haven't seen Mute, but Cloverfield and (to a lesser extent) Bright aren't that bad. Also, they're about to release Annihilation which is by all accounts a hit.
Lauren has said series is about books and wont have anything to do with games.
Telling the stories of the books allow them to properly introduce the characters and mythology to the world at large, while also acting as a psuedo-prequel for the millions that played the games.
Is she the showrunner? Because if so, that's pretty freaking awesome. Seems like she knows her stuff. And I'd really rather have Yen and Triss be written by a woman.
If she already has descriptions for Leo Bonhart, she really is planning to go all the way with the book plot. Bonhart also means they'll likely include Ciri's band of malcontents!
Can't wait to see my boy Regis, hopefully he's as well done here as he was in the Witcher 3.
Can't wait to see my boy Regis, hopefully he's as well done here as he was in the Witcher 3.
Probably two actresses: one for 10-12-year-old Ciri and another for 16-year-old Ciri.
The games take place after the books, so the books are a logical starting point. If the show is a hit, they could always try to acquire the rights from CD Projekt.
Clearly the show is based heavily on the books with that character list. That's good, and it sounds like she understands the characters very well.
Roche is ladylike, steady and extrasensory? Well that's an interesting take on Vernon Ro...
Oh wait, it's Roach.
Oh wait, it's Roach.
It'll be interesting to see how they handle the Geralt/Yen push-and-pull, depending on where in the books they end up placing, especially with seemingly incorporating Triss' thirst for Geralt. Though to be fair, it's not like the trope is unheard of, I suppose.
Lol @ the Roach description. I hope they give her some a few good bits.
Lol @ the Roach description. I hope they give her some a few good bits.
I'd agree on the movie front, but none of their shows (except maybe The Tick) come anywhere close to Netflix's best for me. As someone who is a big PKD fan I couldn't bring myself to finish Man in The High Castle, and was bored to death by Transparent and Red Oaks.
In general I think Amazon does a better job of licensing other productions, but the shows they actually produce are not on par with Netflix's flagship shows.
I'm just saying you're asking for Maisie to play a young rogue like character when she played literally just that in GoT.
I could have sworn she had some fire stuff in the books or did something like that in the games. Of course, I also remember her getting the shits and training Ciri at Kaer Morhen in one of the books, lol.
That doesn't sound like Roach.
Jokes aside, hell yeah! These all (okay, fine, I only read Geralt's, Yen's, Ciri's, and Triss') sound great! Hoping it turns out great.
Jokes aside, hell yeah! These all (okay, fine, I only read Geralt's, Yen's, Ciri's, and Triss') sound great! Hoping it turns out great.
Oof. Thanks for this. Wouldn't have read his description otherwise.
Can't wait. Seems like she knows her shit.
I feel like the short stories are better than anything else.
Sapkowski said in an interview that he isn't and doesn't want to be involved with the making of the show, which makes that consultant credit sound like a formality.
Season of Storm hasn't really altered the ending, the thing it added happens so far in the future, the ending of the game would be a distant memory. In fact, it's easier to tie that epilogue-to-an-epilogue with the video games than it would be to place them in the same continuity as the original book series.
The games turned her into a full-time pyromancer, which strikes me as a rather tone-deaf way to adapt a character who was traumatized by the burns she suffered in a devastating battle that defined her personality.
Yes. They only have the rights to the storylines in the books currently. Which means no Iorveth or Vernon Roche.
I confused Roach and Roche, and was confused why the description sounded like a woman. Thought they were making Roche a woman in the show.
Though now it doesn't seem like Roche is in it at all.
Though now it doesn't seem like Roche is in it at all.
Roche is a CDPR-created character, so he likely won't show up for a while, if ever. I would imagine we won't see Dijkstra either.
Man in the High Castle is pretty good.
I'm hoping they do Jack Ryan well later this year, but they're not adapting any of the Clancy books, so idk how good the story will be.
Yeah, I wasn't aware this was strictly a book adaptation.
Wow it really sounds like she gets the characters, and not the surface level we see in the games but the in-depth aspect from the books. Sure sounds like she's a fan of the original work and is doing her best to translate them faithfully to the big screen.
Having read the entire series reading through the character list reminds of so many key scenes and brings back emotions of such tumultuous events. I can't wait, but fear the confusion the masses will inevitably have at the differences from the game.
Having read the entire series reading through the character list reminds of so many key scenes and brings back emotions of such tumultuous events. I can't wait, but fear the confusion the masses will inevitably have at the differences from the game.
To be fair, almost all of those character notes rang true for me and I've only played the games, never read any of the books. So I don't think the games only explore the characters at the surface level. Her interpretation of Yen is pretty much EXACTLY what I got out of that character, especially after having Geralt turn her down during the Last Wish quest.
Which I suppose is just a sign of how well-formed all of these characters really are.