Man of Steel’s Henry Cavill will likely be The Witcher’s White Wolf within the upcoming Netflix sequence.
It appears Henry Cavill wasn’t kidding when he expressed interest in joining Netflix’s The Witcher. The British actor is a fan of each the fantasy novels and CD Projekt’s RPG sequence, and beforehand mentioned he would like to play as Geralt of Rivia. Now, his dream is turning into a actuality. Netflix recently tweeted the casting news, whereas a retweet from the sequence director confirms it.
Cavill is extensively identified for his movie work, from Man of Steel to the latest Mission Impossible: Fallout. But he’s no stranger to tv both, having starred in Showtime’s pre-Elizabethan drama The Tudors.
Netflix has greenlit an eight-episode season primarily based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s brief story collections, The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny. Presumably a second season set in the course of the conflict with Nilfgaard will observe shortly after. That mentioned, we nonetheless have a while earlier than The Witcher arrives on Netflix, as the series is still in pre-production and won’t launch till 2020.
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