Netflix announced today that Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri will return for a fifth season The Witcher – and that the show’s fifth season will be its last. Season 5 will be filmed following Season 4, which has just begun production.
The announcement came with the first official hints about the plot of the fourth season, in which Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri separately try to come together on a dangerous and conflict-ridden continent.
“Following the shocking, continent-changing events that conclude Season 3,” Netflix’s official synopsis reads, “the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri as they separately traverse the war-ravaged continent and its many demons must.” . If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding their way back together.”
The “baptism of fire” line in the Netflix announcement seems to be a clear Easter egg for fans, suggesting that Season 4 will primarily follow the book Baptism of fire, the fifth book in the Witcher series by Andrzej Sapkowski. It’s unclear whether Season 4 will go beyond the fifth book, considering the series still has three books to adapt and only two seasons left to cover that ground. However it’s split between seasons 4 and 5, the series will eventually make it through the events of The Tower of the Swallow
The streaming giant also revealed footage and photos from the production reunion for the first table reading show The Witcher Season 4 with returning cast members and new addition Liam Hemsworth. Season 4 will be the first season of The Witcher Hemsworth in the role of Geralt after Henry Cavill left the series.
We return to the continent. The fourth season of The Witcher is officially in production. And the fifth season brings this epic series to a fitting conclusion. pic.twitter.com/mejYbhfhxZ
– Netflix (@netflix) April 18, 2024
Netflix hasn’t announced a release window for any of the new seasons, but with production on the two seasons just beginning, it’s safe to assume we won’t see it The Witcher
Despite being a known Witcher superfan, Cavill stepped away from the series in October 2022 and joined Hemsworth (The Hunger Games franchise). Independence Day: Resurgence) typed to replace it. Cavill had just announced his return to the role of Superman, and at the time many assumed he had exited the role The Witcher Have time for Warner Bros. Superhero franchise.
However, in December of that same year, James Gunn announced that the first Superman film from Warner Bros. New plans for DC Comics-based films would focus on a younger Superman not played by Cavill. And that same week, Cavill announced that he had signed a deal with another franchise that is close to his heart: the Warhammer 40k universe. Cavill will star in and executive produce a Warhammer “cinematic universe” of “film, television and more.”
