Although Netflix has saved particulars about The Witcher season 2 comparatively beneath wraps, a brand new report means that filming is effectively underway – and Geralt has been joined by 4 different witchers.
The report comes from dependable Witcher fan website Redanian Intelligence and incorporates particulars concerning the 4 new witchers who might be becoming a member of Geralt (Henry Cavill) on set: Vesemir, Lambert, Eskel, and Coën, played by Kim Bodnia (The Bridge), Paul Bullion (Peaky Blinders), Thue Ersted Rasmussen (Fast and Furious 9), and Yasel Atour (Ben-Hur), respectively.
Filming for The Witcher season 2 really kicked off in February, however the brand new details about Geralt’s witchery companions solely surfaced on-line at this time. The report options a picture from Rasmussen’s Instagram story, which will be seen beneath.
This trailer just about concludes that Rasmussen is on set and actively filming his scenes for season 2. It’s additionally value noting that Rasmussen not too long ago posted that he was working with Barry Gower (the prosthetic artist who introduced you Game of Thrones’ White Walkers) on Instagram. You can see that publish beneath, too.
“I hope they make me real pretty,” Rasmussen stated. However, it’s unclear what precisely The Witcher would want Gower’s experience for on the subject of Eskel. He has loads of scars, however so does Geralt – does this suggest we might see a scene during which Eskel will get himself into main hassle? Possibly – all we all know for positive is that as a lot as Geralt was crushed up in season 1, he by no means fairly wanted a prosthetic artist like Gower, so one thing is unquestionably up.
Meanwhile, Paul Bullion is taking part in Lambert, who some followers would possibly bear in mind from Geralt’s Witcher three limerick, “Lambert, Lambert, what a prick.” You can try a video of him working towards with a sword beneath.
And as soon as once more, @PaulBullionLive demonstrating his witcher abilities pic.twitter.com/aUv4FuDSCP
— Redanian Intelligence: The Witcher (@RedanianIntel) February 22, 2020
Coën, who’s being portrayed by Yasen Atour, is a witcher that video game followers is likely to be much less acquainted with. He’s not really from the Wolf School, however he hangs out at Kaer Morhen with Vesemir and the others. He types a very robust reference to Ciri, so that you’ll doubtless see them spending quite a lot of time collectively in The Witcher season 2 – which, by the sound of issues, might be adapting Blood of Elves, the primary novel within the saga (season 1 tailored The Last Wish and most of Sword of Destiny, that are quick story collections).
Last of all, though followers have been virtually sure Mark Hamill was a shoe-in for Vesemir, it was not too long ago introduced that The Bridge’s Kim Bodnia would be portraying everyone’s favourite witchery softie (a beautiful casting, as soon as you place two and two collectively). He confirmed his involvement with the venture simply lower than per week in the past on Twitter.
I’m very excited for this one
— Kim Bodnia (@KimBodniaDK) February 29, 2020
Although this confirms that there are actually at the very least 5 witchers filming on set, there’s nonetheless no concrete launch date for The Witcher season 2. The finest we’ve got comes from a Reddit AMA showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich participated in final month, throughout which she stated:
“We don’t yet have a target launch date for S2, past 2021. We don’t want to rush the product. That doesn’t benefit anyone.”
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