Netflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series of The Wizard universe.
Blood origin will be a six-part live action limited series and a prequel to the streamer series The Wizard. Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Wizard, the show will trace the origins of the first Witcher and the events leading up to the crucial “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
The series is slated to be filmed in the UK, though the cast and specific date have not been revealed.
Declan de Barra will act as executive producer and showrunner and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will act as executive producer. Andrzej Sapkowski will serve as creative consultant on the series. Hivemind’s Jason Brown and Sean Daniel, and Platige Films’ Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko will act as executive producers.
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Henry Cavill starred The Wizard, The second most watched Netflix show in the United States in 2019. The series recorded 76 million views worldwide in its first four weeks.
Declan de Barra said: “As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am more than excited to tell the story. The Witcher: Blood Origin. A question has been burning in my mind since the first time I read The Wizard books: What was the elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of humans? I have always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish just before that fall. How vast expanses of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of the true story of a civilization behind. The Witcher: Blood Origin It will tell the story of the Elven civilization before its fall and, most importantly, reveal the forgotten story of the first Witcher.
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich added: “I am very excited to collaborate with Declan and the Netflix team on The Witcher: Blood Origin. It is an exciting challenge to explore and expand the The Witcher universe created by Andrzej Sapkowski, and we are eager to introduce fans to new characters and an original storyline that will further enrich our magical and mythical world. ”
In January 2020, Netflix announced an animated spin-off movie titled The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, focusing on the origin story of Geralt’s mentor and fellow Witcher Vesemir.
