The Witcher has life beyond Henry Cavill. The Netflix series, based on the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, will have a fifth season. The confirmation comes through her casting director, Sophie Holland, who revealed her plans for the future in an interview.
The rumors about a possible cancellation of the series have vanished. Apparently, Netflix fully trusts Lauren Hissrich and her team, which is why they gave the go-ahead. Although the initial strategy contemplated extending The Witcher Until seven seasons, the departure of Henry Cavill meant a hard blow for production.
“We’re about to start filming the fourth season with Liam Hemsworth and there will be a bit of a gap before we go straight into the fifth season,” Holland told Deadline. The casting director refrained from commenting on Cavill’s departure and gave her a vote of confidence in the new Geralt de Rivia.
Plans for a back-to-back shoot leaked in September, when Redanian Intelligence reported that Netflix was considering filming seasons 4 and 5 with a brief hiatus. The scripts are ready, so the fourth season of The Witcher will not be affected by the writers’ strike. If everything goes according to plan, the filming period will begin next September and end in May 2024.
The Witcher could conclude in the third season
The third season of The Witcher It will be released on June 29 and will be the last in which we will see Henry Cavill as Geralt de Rivia. The actor confirmed a few months ago that he would not renew his contract with the Netflix series, a decision that surprised all fans.
Curiously, The Witcher could have concluded with season 3. In an interview with Total Film MagazineLauren Hissrich stated that everyone felt the departure of Henry Cavill and thought about closing Geralt’s story.
It was time for him in his life to move on. I think we’ve all mourned this in our own way. We had the option of Geralt going out and finishing the show. [Pero] that’s not something we were willing to do. There are too many stories left to tell
Lauren Hissrich, showrunner at The Witcher
Perhaps the most ironic part of these statements is that the showrunner said that if they had replaced Geralt with another warlock, they would have gone completely off the books. The latter is salt to the wound of fans of the novels, who have seen how Hissrich and his writing team do not respect the original material. The unprofessionalism has been pointed out before by other writers and is rumored to have been a decisive factor in Henry Cavill leaving the project.
The Witcher could be redeemed in its third season, which It will premiere exclusively on Netflix on June 29..