Maybe you’re not like me and still excited about The Witcher’s next two seasons without Henry Cavill, but season three, despite the positive reviews it received, broke my heart, and not because it was the Superman’s final season. Regardless, Netflix’s flagship fantasy series has added three big names to its cast for its fourth season.
By variety, The expanded cast includes Sharlto Copley (“District 9”), James Bowery (“Roma”) and Danny Woodburn (“Seinfeld”). After Liam Hemsworth took over from Cavill as Geralt of Rivia and sparked a buzz online, Netflix seems to be sparing no expense when it comes to new supporting characters.
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Copley will play Leo Bonhardt, the infamous bounty hunter from Andrzej Sapkovsky’s novel, while Purefoy will play Skellen, “Emhyr’s top spy and palace advisor.” Last but not least, Woodburn plays Zoltan, “a fan-favorite dwarf character from the novels and The Witcher video games.” They will join Hemsworth, Anya Chalotra, Freya Allen, Joey Beatty and Laurence Fishburne. The latter will play Regis, a name that everyone who played the Blood and Wine DLC for The Witcher’s third game will remember.
After several delays, production on The Witcher season 4 will begin this spring. The official description of the new season released by Netflix is as follows:
“Following the shocking, continent-changing events at the end of Season 3, the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri as they face traveling across a war-torn continent and being separated from each other. The challenge of many demons. If they can embrace and lead the group of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance to survive the baptism of war and find each other again.”
Look, maybe Liam Hemsworth is great as Geralt, and more importantly, the writing is less scattered this time around, but season 3 is giving me a headache – plot twists and turns very quickly As far as what turns into a climactic event that ends up being underwhelming – I don’t think Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and her team are planning to return to the continent any time soon. I’d love to be proven wrong, though, and be fascinated again.
Meanwhile, CD Projekt Red is gearing up to develop the next big Witcher game and considering whether the IP should make the jump to mobile devices, so even if you give up on the show, there’s still plenty to look forward to.