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The Witcher Showrunner Explains Blood Origin’s Different Take on Eredin and The Wild Hunt

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When CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher III: Wild Hunt was released with Eredin Bréacc Glas as the primary villain, he became instantly popular among Witcher fans. In the books, Eredin is the leader of a group of elves called the Red Riders who can briefly invade other realities in a spectral form and are on

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The Witcher: Blood Origin’s Surprising Post-Credit Scene Explained

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Post-credits scenes are usually a teaser device employed by filmmakers and studios to tease what’s next for the franchise. They aren’t completely uncommon for TV series in recent years, but feature films have been using them much more. In The Witcher, we only had one instance of this so far when after Season 2 we

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The Witcher Showrunner On Season 3: Closer To the Books and “Heroic Sendoff” For Henry Cavill

It has been just over a year since The Witcher launched its second season of magic and monsters on Netflix. There is still a long wait ahead of us before the third season is released, but Netflix have cooked up a prequel show titled The Witcher: Blood Origin for us Witcher fans in the meantime.

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How Jaskier’s Original Scene Was Changed in The Witcher: Blood Origin

Jaskier’s involvement in The Witcher‘s first live-action prequel The Witcher: Blood Origin was known to us for more than a year, when the limited series was still in production, but since then, in April 2022 Netflix decided to have reshoots for the series and among other things, Jaskier’s prologue scene was completely changed. Less song

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Does Jaskier Sing in The Witcher: Blood Origin?

The official soundtrack for The Witcher: Blood Origin by the legendary Bear McCreary has been already released and there was one notable absence: the Jaskier song was missing, despite everyone expecting him to sing. Luckily, this question has been cleared. Yes, Jaskier sings in The Witcher: Blood Origin end credits Despite his absence in the

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Reviews for The Witcher: Blood Origin Are Out, Here’s What Critics Are Thinking

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The Witcher: Blood Origin is the second Netflix spinoff set in the Witcher universe, following the anime film Nightmare of the Wolf and two seasons of the flagship series. Set 1200 years before Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri, this limited series tells the tale of the fall of the Golden Empire of the elves and the

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Avallac’h Casting in The Witcher: Blood Origin Revealed

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The release of The Witcher: Blood Origin starring Michelle Yeoh, Laurence O’Fuarain and Sophia Brown is fast approaching with only 13 days left until release. Yesterday cast, crew and fans could watch the first two episodes at the Blood Origin world premiere in London. However, one of the last unknowns was who would play Avallac’h,

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The Witcher Showrunner Details Cut Content From Blood Origin

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Originally announced as a six-part limited series, The Witcher: Blood Origin starring Michelle Yeoh was partly reshot, recut and rebranded as a four-part event series, with two episodes fewer than intended. Many wondered what was cut and how much footage are we actually getting. The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich detailed some of these changes during

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The Witcher: Blood Origin Adds a Lore Change to Ciri’s Ancestry

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The time of promos and interviews related to The Witcher: Blood Origin is nigh and we get more and more interesting tidbits every day. This time The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich dropped an extremely curious fact about the origin of Ciri’s blood and a significant lore change. Eile is Ciri’s millennia-distant ancestor During a new

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The Witcher Showrunner Talks Henry Cavill’s Departure, Ex-Writer’s Allegations and More

Over the last few months two particular news stories have come out seemingly out of nowhere and shook The Witcher fandom quite a bit. We are of course talking about Henry Cavill’s departure after Season 3 with Liam Hemsworth taking over and former writer Beau DeMayo’s allegations that some of the writers “actively disliked” Andrzej

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