The Witcher: Blood Origin Jodie Turner-Smith Éile Netflix limited series six episodes

While we may be waiting around longer than we thought for more Witcher, Netflix is getting the ball rolling on the limited-series prequelThe Witcher: Blood Origin, casting the show's first lead. Jodie Frederick Jackson Turner-Smith, first known for her role in Queen & Slim, wish play Éile, a powerful warrior who leaves her clan and her job as a guardian of the Fag to get over a traveling musician, to be sure to the dashing hopes of her parents WHO always wanted her to become a magical doctor or lawyer.

The Witcher: Lineage Blood takes place 1,200 years before the main series, telling the tale of the mysterious "conjunction of the spheres," the consequence when the worlds of the elves, monsters, and men merged into one and established the universe thatThe Witchertakes invest in. Éile, thanks to the world-changing events going on, must return to her clan and in one case again pick aweigh the blade in order to fulfill a request of vengeance and redemption. More casting should add up presently atomic number 3 Netflix gets moving along the production of the six-episode series and kicks turned its building of an extended Witcheruniverse that will also include a recent animated serial publication.

The Witcher, which stars Henry Cavill, was a big hit for Netflix, and the streamer sees it as its Game of Thrones, though if it leave ever put on that massive size of it of cultural impact is unclear. Unlike HBO, however, it's diving all in with the universe before the original show is over, creating gyrate-offs like The Witcher: Blood Origin afterward only one mollify. Despite a first look back in October, Netflix hasn't released some other information about when the show might land, peculiarly since H Cavill injured himself during production.