The Witcher’s Bagiński, Laws and Aslam talk production, monsters and costumes

At Lucca Comics & Games, badtaste.it had a chance to sit down with three of the masterminds behind the production of Netflix’s The Witcher: Executive producer Tomasz “Tomek” Bagiński, production designer Andrew Laws, and costume designer Tim Aslam. In two interviews published separately, they talked about the challenges in creating a production of this scale,

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Witcher author Sapkowski: ‘If the TV series is like the trailer, it will be a masterpiece’

Yet another inteview with author Andrzej Sapkowski during his brief promotional campaign of Netflix’s The Witcher at the Lucca Comics & Games festival. Speaking to Wired, Sapkowski reveals his feelings about the trailer, whether the adaptation will be true to the books, what his next project is and whether he is a feminist. “Yesterday I

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Panel Recap: Lead Artists and Producers behind The Witcher on bringing the books to life

On Friday, a day after the release of The Witcher‘s trailer and the reveal of its December 20 release date, key crew-members from the Netflix production starring Henry Cavill rose to the stage at Lucca. There, they discussed the tireless work that brought this story from the pages of Andrzej Sapkowski‘s novels to the big

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Showrunner Lauren Hissrich is planning seven seasons of The Witcher

Earlier this week, Netflix’s The Witcher unveiled its season one trailer, confirming a December 20 release date. However, this is just the beginning for the Henry Cavill-led show, with plans for season two and well beyond already in place. In an interview with SFX Magazine (reported by PCGamer), showrunner Lauren Hissrich said: “I’ve [mapped out stories]

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