Ciri in The Witcher Season 4 – Image: Netflix
Alongside the large boxing match between Canelo Álvarez vs. Terence Crawford this previous weekend, Netflix debuted its long-awaited first search for The Witcher season 4, alongside saying its launch date for October thirtieth. Alongside the brand new season, we’ve realized, Netflix will likely be debuting the long-awaited and troubled manufacturing The Rats as a stand-alone movie dubbed A Witcher Story.
The Rats: A Witcher Story has been considerably of an open secret for fairly a while. You’ll discover our first preview for the collection, which went beneath the codename Riff Raff, as early as 2023, with the undertaking rumored lengthy earlier than that, as early as 2021. It finally did get into manufacturing in South Africa in 2023. Whereas it was in manufacturing, it will definitely ended prematurely, with subsequent reporting labeling the production as a “disaster.” Up to now, Netflix has by no means formally introduced the collection.
Initially meant to be a stand-alone collection, akin to that of The Witcher: Blood Origin, the troubled manufacturing finally regarded poised at numerous factors to be axed solely.
Reporting, principally from Redanian Intelligence, started surfacing all through 2024, suggesting that it’d be labored into season 4 as a particular episode, labored into flashback sequences all through season 4, or perhaps a stand-alone film (particular episode) of some description. Netflix has opted for the latter of these choices.
Up to now, the one logline concerning the story of The Rats has been, “Six teenage thieves should depend on their felony expertise as they plan the most important heist of their careers in opposition to probably the most harmful crime ring within the kingdom.”
The new particular episode, which we consider will likely be labeled a movie, is directed by Mairzee Almas (The Sandman, Shadow & Bone) with Haily Corridor as author. The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich and govt producer Tomek Baginski are producing this collection.
No runtime or first appears to be like simply but, though they’re anticipating them within the coming days and weeks.
Who’s in The Rats: A Witcher Story?
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The Rats in season 3 episode 8 of The Witcher – Image: Netflix
As beforehand introduced and already discovered within the present, the gang of teenage criminals referred to as The Rats consists of Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh, Iskra, Reef, and Asse. They’re performed by Ben Radcliffe, Christelle Elwin, Fabian McCallum, Aggy Ok. Adams, Juliette Alexandra, and Connor Crawford, respectively. All of them made their first look in these roles throughout The Witcher Season 3 Episode 8 and can reprise their roles on this spin-off.
Moreover, the 80s and 90s motion star Dolph Lundgren has been cast as a ruthless rogue witcher from the College of the Cat referred to as Brehen. Brehen briefly seems in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Season of Storms, the place he has a confrontation with Geralt of Rivia. Deoudone van der Merwe as Junpier, Morgan Santo as Dulcie and Stevel Marc as Lord Ridot spherical out the presently recognized solid.
The Witcher will likely be coming to an finish on Netflix with its upcoming fifth and remaining season, which is within the remaining portion of filming in the UK as we communicate. Season 4’s announcement over the weekend was met with, it’s truthful to say, a blended to unfavorable response to Henry Cavill being changed by Liam Hemsworth. Honestly, the IP at Netflix has by no means been a slam dunk. Whereas season 1 earned numerous goodwill with audiences, subsequent seasons that felt misguided, a break up season 3 that brought about viewership to drop, behind-the-scenes drama, and spin-offs which have both been crucial disasters (The Witcher: Blood Origin) or scrapped solely (children’ Witcher undertaking) imply The Witcher’s legacy on Netflix will likely be clouded. Fingers crossed that these remaining two seasons and possibly even this new stand-alone particular can go a way towards repairing that legacy.
Netflix declined to touch upon hypothesis.
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