Halloween Preview: The Witcher is bringing panels, footage and a trailer to London and Lucca

Netflix’s upcoming hit The Witcher is slated for a release this December, and fans have been craving for another look at the show. Within just a few days, the long wait will be over. Beginning Sunday, October 27 and lasting an entire week, Netflix will kickstart The Witcher‘s marketing campaign during two adjacent events: MCM

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The Witcher’s showrunner on sex, violence and Game of Thrones comparisons

“This is not Game of Thrones,” said The Witcher showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich in a newly published article by Hobby Consolas (translated here from Spanish). “I think this series has much more magic. What we wanted to create for Netflix is ​​a global series that reaches people with different points of view, different perspectives, different political

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The Witcher showrunner reveals Henry Cavill chose the horse for Roach

A newly published interview with The Witcher‘s Lauren S. Hissrich sees the showrunner discuss her meeting with author Andrzej Sapkowski, the influence of the CD Projekt Red video games on the Netflix show and how Henry Cavill chose the horse that would play Geralt of Rivia’s trusted companion Roach. Blog Hobby Consolas sat down with

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The Witcher’s Yennefer on the pressure to appease the fans: ‘I focus on the moment’

In February Hobby Consolas was one of the publications that visited the Budapest set of Netflix’s The Witcher and interviewed its main trio. You can check out the translation of their interview with lead actor Henry Cavill here, and read on for their joint interview with female leads Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan who portray

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Four audition tapes for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings revealed; Markella Kavenagh likely to play an elf

Amazon’s extremely ambitious Lord of the Rings series has been casting for a while now and we have four of its audition videos with transcriptions to share with you. First things first, these dialogues may not appear in the actual show. It is a common practice for production teams to write “fake” dialogues designed to

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