Category: Interviews

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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The Witcher’s costume designer on Nilfgaardian armor, Yennefer’s most iconic dress and more

The Witcher season one has come and gone, and Henry Cavill’s fantasy drama has quickly become one of Netflix’s most popular shows. Though much of the focus has been on the show’s ensemble cast (including Yennefer actress Anya Chalotra) and on showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich, there were hundreds of people working on the show and

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The Witcher showrunner describes deleted scenes, teases season two

It’s been a month since the release of Netflix’s The Witcher, and the Henry Cavill show has quickly become a huge success for the streaming service. With season two entering production this February, showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich has spoken to Vulture and Pure Fandom, describing some of season one’s deleted scenes, teasing the structure and

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The Witcher author on adaptations: “They’re almost always worse”

“Are you satisfied with the script?” the interviewer asked The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski a few months before Netflix premiered its first season of the Henry Cavill series. The author, well known for his controversial humor, did not answer “by the book”. The video is available on YouTube, and we have the translation’s transcript below.

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The Witcher showrunner confirms: the show will conclude with the ending of the books

Netflix’s newest fantasy series The Witcher, starring Henry Cavill, has quickly become one of the streaming giant’s most popular shows. As you probably know, the series is based on an existing and rather successful franchise. Though The Witcher is known for an acclaimed trilogy of video games, those games were actually based on a series

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