Henry Cavill fans’ dream has definitely shattered

While the fourth season of Netflix’s The Witcher is in full pre-production, fans have still not recovered from the hasty departure of Henry Cavill, who previously played the hero Geralt of Rivia.

Remember! At the end of 2022, Henry Cavill, who played the witcher Geralt of Rivia in the Netflix series “The Witcher”, officially announced his departure from the series without revealing the reasons. However, the show was far from finished as season 3 had not yet aired and a fourth had just been announced. Meanwhile, actor Liam Hemsworth (Hunger Games, Independence Day: Resurgence

) was chosen to take the torch: “Geralt has wonderful depth, fun to dive in and see what you can find,” Cavill said on his Instagram at the time. If the handover of the role had been amicable between the two actors, this hasty farewell had the effect of an earthquake on the fans from which they never recovered.

There is no return for Henry Cavill in The Witcher

Despite a petition that brought together more than 330,000 signatures for Henry Cavill’s return, nothing has been achieved on the fan side. At Netflix, however, a new milestone has been reached as The Witcher season 4 is actively in pre-production and filming is scheduled for March in the UK, it is said The Redanian secret service

. This will be the opportunity to discover the first images of Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia. That’s not all, as the fifth season is also in development. The streaming service has not announced a release date for the time being, as the productions were enormously disrupted by the seriousness of the actors and authors in 2023. As a reminder, seasons 4 and 5 of The Witcher series were originally scheduled to film in September.

With the delay, we’ll have to wait at least until the end of 2024 or even 2025 to see The Witcher back on our screens. It is currently very difficult to look beyond the fifth season of the Netflix series, the writing of which, according to well-informed media, is already well advanced. The next two parts of The Witcher are said to be inspired by the three novels “The Baptism of Fire”, “The Swallow Tower” and “The Lady of the Lake” by Andrzej Sapkowski, which are also the last three volumes of the literary series. So this could mean that season 5 could be the last. However, nothing is less certain, as Netflix has made a habit of moving further and further away from the original work. In 2019, producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich even told SFX Magazine that she wanted to produce seven seasons alongside Henry Cavill.