Month: July 2021

Amazon’s Lord of the Rings: Nazanin Boniadi’s role revealed and other cast updates

Amazon’s ambitious and famously secretive Lord of the Rings series is finally taking shape. Recently, the streaming giant announced another four additions to the project’s already extensive ensemble cast, while reliable set reports indicate that principal photography for the first season is close to finishing. In our last update on the still untitled show, we

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The Witcher anime film ‘Nightmare of the Wolf’ reveals its voice cast alongside a new teaser trailer

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, Netflix’s upcoming anime film set in the Witcher universe, will release on Netflix on August 23. The anime film will be a prequel to the main series and will focus on Vesemir. While he is certainly a fan favorite, we were curious to see which characters will join Vesemir

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The Witcher showrunner on the perfect casting of Vesemir and other WitcherCon highlights

Among the many goodies that Witchercon gave us, was the interview with Lauren Hissrich, showrunner, and executive producer of The Witcher. Hissrich spoke passionately about many aspects of season two, the Witcher family, Henry Cavill, Kim Bodnia, her favorite season two character, Kaer Morhen, and how she handled the various familial bonds in the story.

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Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan discuss Yennefer and Ciri’s relationship and other highlights from WitcherCon

Witcher fans are still reeling from the exciting cascade of news that came with Netflix and CD Projekt RED’s WitcherCon event, and among the teaser trailer for season two, the teaser for the anime film, and behind-the-scenes featurettes, a lot of interesting details flew under the radar. As we did with Henry Cavill’s lengthy WitcherCon

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