full trailer and key artwork revealed at CCXP

In one other large reveal popping out of Brazil’s CCXP (Comedian Con Expertise), Netflix dropped the complete trailer for his or her upcoming four-part restricted collection, The Witcher: Blood Origin, which makes its debut on December twenty fifth. The collection stars Michelle Yeoh, Sophia Brown and Laurence O’Fuarain, and is about lengthy earlier than the streamer’s flagship Witcher collection. As per Netflix’s official logline:

Greater than a thousand years earlier than the occasions of “The Witcher,” seven outcasts in an Elven world be a part of forces in a quest towards an omnipotent empire

It sounds to me just like the collection is a little bit of a riff on the traditional Seven Samurai/ Magnificent Seven formulation, the place an eclectic group of outlaws and outcasts group as much as tackle the forces of evil. Seven, in fact, is at all times the essential quantity. Whereas Yeoh is the largest identify concerned, Brown appears to be the lead right here, together with her taking part in Éile, a former member of the Queen’s guard turned travelling musician. Yeoh performs Scían, the final of a tribe of sword elves (who looks like she fills the mentor function fairly properly), whereas O’Fuarain is Fjall, a disgraced warrior looking for redemption.

It’ll be fascinating to see how followers react to Netflix’s try to department out The Witcher franchise, which relies on the best-selling ebook collection by Andrzej Sapkowski. One of many vital elements that’s helped the present catch on in such a giant method is Henry Cavill starring as Geralt of Rivia. Nonetheless, with him about to exit the present, they’ll have to get audiences invested extra within the universe than anyone actor, and Blood Origin appears to be like like a step in that course.

Whereas The Witcher: Blood Origin comes out on Christmas, you’ll be able to nonetheless count on one other total season of Cavill taking part in Geralt when the third season makes its Netflix debut in 2023.

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