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2025 is supposed to be an eventful 12 months for The Witcher franchise throughout a number of media codecs. Andrzej Sapkowski will launch his new Witcher e book, Crossroads of Ravens, internationally in 19 international locations this September. CD Projekt Crimson has been making all kinds of reveals and first appears into The Witcher 4, the subsequent sport. On the Netflix aspect of issues, we acquired The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep anime earlier this 12 months, with season 4 on the horizon, though it’s been very quiet.
What’s the diplomatic calm with season 4? Will it nonetheless launch in 2025? Right here’s all the pieces we all know.
Who’s behind The Witcher Season 4?
Netflix has formally introduced the writers and administrators crew of Season 4 once they entered manufacturing again in April 2024.
- Writers: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (401), Tania Lotia (402), Rae Benjamin (403), Troy Dangerfield (404), Matthew D’Ambrosio (405), Javier Grillo-Marxuach (406), Clare Higgins (407), Mike Ostrowski (408)
- Administrators: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (401 & 402), Tricia Brock (403 & 404), Alex Garcia Lopez (405 & 406), Jeremy Webb (407 & 408)
As you’ll be able to see, the writers are the identical as these in Season 3, with some getting back from Seasons 1 and a pair of. Administrators listed here are principally new, besides Alex Garcia Lopez, who directed two episodes again in Season 1.
The Witcher Season 4 has been in manufacturing since October 2024 and is at the moment in post-production.
How will The Witcher handle Geralt’s recast?
Henry Cavill’s exit was introduced again in October 2022, and it took all the Witcher fandom unexpectedly. In the identical announcement, Liam Hemsworth was declared as Cavill’s substitute as Geralt of Rivia, and since then, there have been many speculations as to how The Witcher would handle that change. One would suppose that placing Liam Hemsworth in Geralt’s costume and calling it a day could be sufficient, as that may be treating this as every other recast ever (together with Sam Woolf changing Christ Fulton as Rience in Season 3). Nonetheless, the folks behind The Witcher felt totally different.
Now we have since realized precisely how The Witcher Season 4 will go about this, and it’ll begin with the very opening scene of the brand new season. The Witcher Season 4 will introduce Nimue, a younger lady who’s alive some 100 years after Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer have handed and have change into a legend. Nimue, performed by Eve Ridley, could be very inquisitive about these tales and seeks each alternative to study extra. Fortunately, there may be Stribog (Clive Russell), a wandering storyteller who involves Nimue’s village from time to time and tells numerous tales to native youngsters in alternate for meals.
Season 4 of The Witcher will open with Stribog telling one among these tales to Nimue and different youngsters. The children hold interrupting him with different variations of the story they heard. In the meantime, we get a montage. Geralt preventing Vilgefortz, with every minimize having some slight variations. As soon as he’s in his black shirt as seen in Season 3, different instances he’s preventing the identical combat in his Season 2 armor, and so forth. We noticed The Witcher re-enacting that Season 3 combat for Season 4 with Liam Hemsworth.
The purpose of all that’s that Stribog is supposed to inform the youngsters (and the viewers, it seems) that that is the way it actually went down and that is how Geralt actually appeared.
What can we anticipate from the plot of The Witcher Season 4? Who’s returning?
Judging by the ultimate episodes of The Witcher Season 3 and the general story trajectory of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, we will inform that the subsequent season of The Witcher could have its deal with three most important teams, centering across the present’s three most important characters. Geralt might be along with his Hansa looking for Ciri, Ciri might be with The Rats, and Yennefer might be with the Lodge of Sorceresses.
Geralt is on his solution to Nilfgaard with Joey Batey‘s Jaskier and Meng’er Zhang‘s Milva. Becoming a member of his crew or Hansa all through Season 4 might be fan-favorites from CDPR’s video games, Danny Woodburn‘s Zoltan Chivay and Laurence Fishburne‘s Regis, in addition to Eamon Farren‘s Cahir.
Yennefer’s path additionally appears not too dissimilar to Geralt’s within the sense that by the tip of Season 3, she has shaped the Lodge of Sorceresses, and we anticipate Yennefer to assemble this crew one after the other in Season 4. The founding members as of Season 3 embrace Anya Chalotra‘s Yennefer, Anna Shaffer‘s Triss Merigold, Rochelle Rose‘s Margarita Laux-Antille, Therica Wilson-Learn‘s Sabrina Glevissig, and Safiyya Ingar‘s Keira Metz.
The Rats
Others who’re anticipated to affix the Lodge are Cassie Clare‘s Philippa Eilhart, who shaped and led the Lodge within the books, Micaela Simson‘s Francesca Findabair, and Mimi Khayisa‘s Fringilla Vigo. Season 4 might or might not introduce three extra: Sheala de Tancarville, Assire var Anahid, and Ida Emean.
Ciri’s journey in Season 4 is with The Rats. This gang of teenage criminals 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. We’ll see various The Rats in Season 4, however eventually, they are going to run into Sharlto Copley‘s Leo Bonhart.
Noteworthy: Netflix was developing The Rats as a standalone sequence however ultimately dropped it midway through production.
Different returning characters ought to embrace Jeremy Crawford as Yarpen Zigrin, Bart Edwards as Emhyr var Emreis, Frances Pooley as Pretend Ciri, Mahesh Jadu as Vilgefortz, Graham McTavish as Dijkstra, and Hugh Skinner as Radovid.
The official synopsis for season 4 is as follows:
“After the stunning, Continent-altering occasions that shut out season three, the brand new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who’re confronted with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons other than one another. If they will embrace and lead the teams of misfits they discover themselves in, they’ve an opportunity of surviving the baptism of fireside and discovering each other once more.”
New solid members of The Witcher Season 4
Right here’s a listing of the brand new solid members becoming a member of The Witcher in Season 4:
- Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia
- Laurence Fishburne as Regis
- Danny Woodburn as Zoltan Chivay
- Linden Porco as Percival Schuttenbach
- Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart
- James Purefoy as Stefan Skellen
- Eve Ridley as Nimue
- Clive Russell as Stribog
- Edmund Kingsley as Jocephus of Muroc
- Jack Myers as Roderick de Wett
- Andrew French as Rispat la Pointe
- Gary Oliver as Marshal Vissegerd
- Rowan Polonski as Nazarian
- Christopher Sciueref as Ceallach
- Aaron Zicman as Younger Cahir
- Leanne Ho as Younger Milva
- Joanna Zorian as Nikita
- Patrice Naiambana as Lupus
- Gareth David-Lloyd in an unknown position
- Joelle Rae in an unknown position
- Esme Lonsdale in an unknown position
What’s the launch date for The Witcher Season 4?
As of June 2025, Netflix nonetheless hasn’t made any vital bulletins concerning The Witcher Season 4. We don’t know the discharge date, we don’t even know a launch window. It’s solely alluded that the discharge date might be someday in 2025, and that window was reiterated at the Netflix Upfronts. There have been no indicators of a delay till 2026, though we are actually midway into the 12 months.
Don’t neglect that The Witcher season 5 can be on the way in which, which can shut out (hopefully with a bang slightly than a whimper) the franchise on Netflix. Production got underway earlier in 2025.
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