The Witcher coming to Netflix

This could be great as long as they get the right cast and crew involved. I WILL be checking this out.


http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-witcher-saga-coming-to-netflix-as-tv-series-1202430136

Hmm, might be a reason to get a netflix account

Timed to fill the gap left behind with the final season of GoT?

Who would you cast as Geralt of Rivia?


My first pick would be Sean Bean.

I would hope they find some entirely unknown actor Less predictable

I'm ok with the supporting cast being unknowns but your lead role should really be filled by someone who is well known and will be an audience draw.

Hopefully you are not expecting the same experience as in the game. Although the quests in the games parallel the stories in the books a bit,there are quite significant differences, and the characters in the books are really different. Geralt is still close to what he is in the games, but he is VERY cocky and comes out as a petulant braggart. In the game you don't get why people don't like him so much. In the books you tend to agree with everyone on how unlikable he is. Still he saves them, and is "the hero", so he gets away with it.

Sean Bean would be great but . . . . Geralt does not die


Mads Mikkelsen might be good also

Yeah, Mikkelsen would be very good as well. He has a lot of screen presence.

Why?

It'd be a series which sells itself on name recoknition of the brand alone.

How many series do you watch purely due to who is in it?

There's been a few but admittedly not that many.


This is Marketing 101. As a general rule, you want to have at least one well known actor in your new show/movie in order to attract your initial audience. People will either stay with the show or dump it if they don't like it anyway but you want to have at least some name recognition with the cast in order to bring in the initial crowd. There are certain actors who have proven themselves to be a draw regardless of what type of film or show they are in.

I think it would probably be better on Cinemax. At night.

Bow-chicka-wow-wow.

I really hope Netflix stays true to the franchise. The sex and violence needs to be on par with that of GOT.

I have high hopes because its NETFLIX. If it were HOLLYWOOD, they would cast Tom Cruise because that was SUCH A GREAT DECISION for the Jack Reacher movies...

So...

Eva Green for Yennefer?



Anson Mount for Geralt...

+1 for Eva.

Her for Triss (with a bit more red...) ?

Manu Bennett.
Plenty of sword and action experience from Spartacus, Arrow and Shannara, has a fan following and a good actor.

Im not familiar with Anson Mount but he definitely has the right look to play Geralt.

Maybe Jason Isaacs, he's already got the wig from Harry Potter. LOL

He stars in the AMC series Hell on Wheels

Man, how is that series still going. It jumped the shark so badly at season 2 that I stopped watching it. Does it get better?

I'd also watch a Sean Bean of Rivia. He'd have to get back in shape though. Also he'd have the opening sequence down to an art (you know with Geralt dying and all).

Whew, I thought they're bringing back the Polish version from 2002 with the rubber monsters.

Wow I was hoping someone would do something like this. Netfilx has a few productions I like so hopefully they'll do a good job. I agree, I'd rather see some new, unknowns play the parts. There's a lot of talented people that do not get enough credit or work yet in many cases outshine the top paid, go to famous actors. I've not read the books so RScolonel I'm not sure I could handle watching the show with that kind of Geralt lol. I like the "man of few words" style Geralt in the games. Either way if its all done well I think I'll enjoy it. I hope it also takes on what I'm guessing is a grittier world in the books. The games have their gritty moments but right now playing Blood and Wine with so much color and stylish fun and wine loving people I almost forget how far away that is from the darker moments of Wild Hunt but especially in Witcher 1. Witcher 1 does a really great job of creating a darker, unfriendly medieval atmosphere.

Honestly, I think that is anicent and outdated marketing for TV shows, Espesially streaming services like Netflix.
Social buzz and word of mouth is the new marketing trends.

A Game of Thrones would have been just as huge without Sean Bean in the first season. And it's grown from season to season after beheading him. Shows like Vikings, Big Bang Theory, Grimm, Lucifer have been getting renewals without big stars (granted, Grimm was cancelled after 5 seasons, but that is an eternity in today's TV world).

I just started Vikings and its pretty good so far. I'm on season two now.