The Witcher: Prequel Blood Origin Wraps Production

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The Witcher: Blood Origin, Netflix’s limited series and a prequel to The Witcher starring Henry Cavill wrapped production, showrunner Declan de Barra confirmed on his Twitter account.

Netflix is planning to turn The Witcher into the whole media franchise. Original fantasy novels written by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski already spawned three video games, graphic novels, the original Witcher show that debuted on Netflix in 2019, and while Season 2 is closing in, there is one more project that is currently in development.

The animated film Nightmare of the Wolf, which was the first official spin-off (and the prequel) to the main series was released last August. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, showrunner of The Witcher, produced the movie starring Theo James in a voice role as Vesemir, who was the mentor of Geralt of Rivia.

The Witcher: Blood Origin is the first live-action prequel/spin-off of the main series. Blood Origin will be a limited series consisting of six episodes. Created by Declan de Barra, it’s starring Sophia Brown, Laurence, O’Fuarain, Michelle Yeoh, Lenny Henry, Mirren Mack, Nathaniel Curtis, and Dylan Moran.

Set 1200 years before the events of the television series, Blood Origin will depict the creation of the first Witcher, as well as the events leading to the “Conjunction of the Spheres”.[1] It will also explore the ancient Elven civilisation before its demise.

The Witcher: Blood Origin, synopsis

The Witcher Season 2 is set to debut on Netflix on December 17, and Season 3 is already in development. A release date for The Witcher: Blood Origin is still TBA. Kid-friendly show is also in development.

The Witcher Season 1 and Nightmare of the Wolf are now available on Netflix.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.