Gather Round the Fire for a New Look at Netflix’s Next Witcher Project

It’s going to beryllium a portion earlier we get the fourth and 5th seasons to circular retired Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, with Liam Hemsworth taking implicit the live-action series’ mentation of Geralt of Rivia. But successful the meantime, the streamer has another Geralt to tide you over, successful the signifier of a precise acquainted gaming voice.

As Netflix’s Geeked Week celebrations continue, the streamer has released the archetypal extended clip from its adjacent actual Witcher project, the animated movie Sirens of the Deep. The film, directed by Kang Hei Chul and animated by Studio Mir (who besides animated the last Witcher animated project, prequel bid Nightmare of the Wolf), Sirens of the Deep adapts Witcher writer Andrzej Sapkowski’s abbreviated communicative A Little Sacrifice. But while Sirens volition bring successful a fewer stars from the live-action bid to reprise their roles, namely Anya Chalotra and Joey Batey arsenic Yennefer and Jaskier, respectively, they’ll beryllium joined by different caller Geralt. Well, “new.”

As antecedently announced, Doug Cockle, who iconically growled Geralt to beingness successful CD Projekt Red’s Witcher video games, volition play Geralt in Sirens, which sees the Witcher tasked to support a coastal village, lone to beryllium drawn into an past struggle betwixt humankind and merpeople. Forced to gully connected allies aged and caller to halt tensions simmering into all-out war, earlier Geralt draws his swords erstwhile much helium has to remainder up and contemplate his lonely beingness (with a small prodding from Jaskier) arsenic you tin spot successful the clip below, introduced by Cockle himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8P2Nodqzpc

There’s not overmuch to spell connected but it’s an absorbing operation to perceive Batey and Cockle’s takes connected Jaskier and Geralt bounce disconnected each different successful this way. Before we brace ourselves for live-action Geralt to get a abrupt makeover successful play four, it’s a cute small mode to hole Netflix viewers for a antithetic rotation connected Geralt, adjacent if Cockle’s dependable is already precise acquainted to legions of gaming fans.

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep is acceptable to deed Netflix connected February 11, 2025.

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