The Witcher: Blood Origin Season 1 On Netflix Set To Premiere In December 2022

Publish date: 2024-06-09

Declan de Barra and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will soon release The Witcher: Blood Origin, a fantasy miniseries based on the Andrzej Sapkowski book series of the same name. As a prequel to the Netflix series, it will be available.

Based on the same-titled book series by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich’s fantasy drama television series The Witcher is available on Netflix. The Witcher explores the myth of Princess Ciri, Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Geralt of Rivia on the Continent, a made-up continent with medieval influences. Henry Cavill, Anya Chalotra, and Freya Allan are its main actors.

Netflix published the first season’s eight episodes on December 20, 2019. It was based on the short story collections The Last Wish and Sword of Destiny, which come before the main Witcher saga. On December 17, 2021, the second season, which also had eight episodes, was released. The show received a third season renewal from Netflix in September 2021.

The Witcher: Blood Origin Season 1 Release Date

The Witcher: Blood Origin, the four-episode season will have its premiere on December 25, 2022.

The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, an animated origin story movie, was released on August 23, 2021. The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel miniseries, will debut on December 25, 2022.

Welcome to our clan, Minnie Driver! We can’t wait to see you on the Continent. pic.twitter.com/9yVSeuT2i8

— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) September 24, 2022

The Witcher: Blood Origin Season 1 Plot

Most of you are aware that Netflix’s The Witcher is based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s beloved series of books, which also inspired CD Projekt Red’s popular Witcher video games. While Sapkowski occasionally mentions events such as the Conjunction of the Spheres, it is clear that Blood Origin’s story will be much more reliant on the writers’ imaginations because so little is known about this period in the Continent’s history.

Having said that, the show could draw on a foundation of early history. The Witcher’s world was initially populated in waves. Gnomes came first, then dwarves, and finally elves. While these Elder Races were not exactly living in harmony, the Conjunction of the Spheres threw their world into disarray, trapping all manner of unnatural creatures from other dimensions, including humans and monsters. It is unknown what caused the Conjunction or how it occurred; all that is known is that it forever altered the fabric of the Continent.

The birth of the first Witcher is almost as enshrouded in legend as the Conjunction. Long after monsters first appeared on the Continent, a band of renegade mages banded together to create a weapon to combat the supernatural creatures that had become a scourge in many areas.

Ironically, some of them, such as the sorcerer Alzur, were responsible for conjuring up the most horrifying abominations imaginable through magic. The first witchers were created in a secret and excruciatingly painful ritual known as the Trial of the Grasses. Those who survived developed enhanced reflexes, speed, and agility, transforming them into the ultimate monster-slayers.

The show will find its own way to these events, but that doesn’t mean it won’t borrow from the books. Exploring a pre-Conjunction world could provide a one-of-a-kind opportunity to delve deeply into the various societies of the Elder Races in a way that the main Witcher show cannot. The mystery of the first witcher and the mages who created him looms large throughout the centuries that follow, all the way up to Geralt’s time.

Every story has a beginning.

Witness the untold history of the Continent with The Witcher: Blood Origin, a new prequel series set in an elven world 1200 years before the events of #TheWitcher. pic.twitter.com/DNWpmVUO4t

— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) December 20, 2021

The Witcher: Blood Origin Season 1 Cast

Michelle Yeoh as Scían
Sophia Brown as Éile
Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall
Minnie Drive as TBC
Lenny Henry as Chief Druid Balor
Mirren Mack as Merwyn
Nathaniel Curtis as Brían
Dylan Moran as Uthrok One-Nut
Jacob Collins-Levy as Eredin
Lizzie Annis as Zacaré
Huw Novelli as Callan “Brother Death”
Francesca Mills as Meldof
Amy Murray as Fenrik
Zach Wyatt as Syndril
Aidan O’Callaghan as Kareg

Recapped reported in November 2020 that the show is looking for two female leads. Eile ‘The Lark’ Lithe and Princess Merwyn were given their names. Eile comes from an elf clan where knives are the primary weapon. Jodie Turner-Smith was originally cast as Eile but left the series due to a scheduling conflict. Since then, we’ve learned that Sophia Brown (from Netflix’s Giri/Haji) will play Eile, and Mirren Mack (from Mudlarks) will play Merwyn.

Laurence O’Fuarain (Rebellion, Vikings) was the second confirmed cast member, playing Fjall Stoneheart. This character was described as “physically strong, gritty, and visceral,” and he belonged to a rival elven clan to Eile’s. It’s possible that Fjall will become the Continent’s first Witcher.

Redanian Intelligence first revealed Jacob Collins-Levy (The White Princess, Young Wallander) as Blood Origin’s “Captain Eredin.” This is the same Eredin from the novels and games, and another actor was cast as an older version of this character for Season 2 of The Witcher. This is the first significant link that Blood Origin has with the main series.

#TheWitcher prequel series Blood Origin will dive into the events that lead to the pivotal “Conjunction of the Spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves colided. pic.twitter.com/2Vg20UUDtj

— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) December 20, 2021

The Witcher: Blood Origin Teaser

The Witcher: Blood Origin Production

It was announced in July 2020 that Netflix had greenlit a six-part miniseries prequel to their television series adaptation of the Andrzej Sapkowski novels. Declan de Barra was hired to serve as a showrunner. In January 2021, Jodie Turner-Smith was cast to star in the series. Laurence O’Fuarain would join the cast in March, but by April, Turner-Smith had to exit due to scheduling conflicts. In July, Michelle Yeoh was added, with Sophia Brown taking over the role vacated by Turner-Smith.

Filming on the series began in August 2021 in the United Kingdom, with additional castings including Lenny Henry, Mirren Mack, Nathaniel Curtis, and Dylan Moran announced. De Bara announced it had finished filming and went into post-production in November 2021.

Celine Tran is announced in the credits of the series as a stunt double for actress Michelle Yeoh.