The Witcher is getting a third season, to no-one’s surprise. The show has been a smash hit for Netflix, and we’ll be getting more of Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri’s story soon enough.
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Exactly what we’ll be seeing, though, isn’t too certain. While the show is adapting the source books by Andrzej Sapkowski, it’s ploughing its own furrough to a decent degree. We’ve got all the details and rumours, below.
The Witcher season 3: Release date
We don’t know an exact date for when The Witcher season 3 will be available, but we do know that it will be at some point in summer 2023. Netflix announced the timeframe during its Tudum event in September 2022.
Our family returns! The Witcher is back for Season 3 in Summer 2023 #TUDUM pic.twitter.com/pV414YvRPI
— Netflix (@netflix) September 24, 2022
Netflix first announced that the show was going into production earlier this year, getting fans all excited that they’d get to see their favourite Witcher characters soon enough.
Our family is back together again. #TheWitcher Season 3 is officially in production! pic.twitter.com/rlBl0j3lT1
— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) April 4, 2022
While this doesn’t give us any firm clues for when the show will debut, it fits in roughly with its previous shooting and release schedules to indicate that we might hope to see it at the very tail-end of 2022, if the post-production can go nice and smoothly.
Since then shooting has – of course – wrapped, with the production team now focused on the mammoth post-production job. Still, for now we’ll have to wait until Netflix puts out a confirmed release date before we can get too excited.
The Witcher season 3: Plot rumours
The second season of The Witcher ended with Yennefer, Geralt and Ciri together after some to-and-fro action. Yennefer is back onside having realised that she can’t sacrifice her morals, and indeed Ciri, to get her magic back.
With the geopolitics of war and nations going on in the foreground as well, there are a lot of moving pieces, from the movement of the dissatisfied elves after the murder of their child, and the arrival on the scene of Nilfgaard’s emperor, Emhyr var Emreis, revealed to be Ciri’s father.
We’ve got a firm idea of what will happen in the next season, thanks to the official plot summary that Netflix has released, which you can see below.
We’re also excited to reveal the official plot summary for the upcoming season…#TheWitcher pic.twitter.com/oqg6LnufBT
— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) April 4, 2022
That said, this only really covers our main characters – what happens in the wider story of conquest will remain to be seen. Unless you’ve read the books or played the games, of course, in which case you’ll have a massive headstart!
The Witcher season 3: Cast and crew
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is The Witcher’s creator and showrunner. It is executive produced by Schmidt Hissrich. Tomek Baginski, Jason F. Brown, Sean Daniel, Mike Ostrowski, Steve Gaub, and Jarosław Sawko also executive produce.
In addition to Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia, season three has a huge cast. Here’s the list of characters from season two, almost all of whom are expected to return:
Henry Cavill plays Geralt of RiviaFreya Allan plays Princess Cirilla, aka CiriAnya Chalotra plays Yennefer of VengerbergJoey Batey plays JaskierMyAnna Buring plays Tissaia de VriesEamon Farren plays CahirMimi M Khayisa plays Fringilla VigoAnna Shaffer plays Triss MerigoldMahesh Jadu plays VilgefortzRoyce Pierreson plays IstreddKim Bodnia plays VesemirTom Canton plays FilavandreMecia Simson plays Francesca FindabairWilson Mbomio plays DaraBasil Eidenbenz plays EskelPaul Bullion plays LambertYasen Atour plays CoenTerence Maynard plays Artorius VigoLars Mikkelsen plays StregoborShaun Dooley plays King Foltest of TemeriaGraham McTavish plays Sigismund DijkstraChris Fulton plays RienceAisha Fabienne Ross plays LydiaSimon Callow plays CodringherLiz Carr plays FennAdjoa Andoh plays Nenneke
The Witcher season 3: Trailers and featurettes
So far we’re without a trailer for the next season, but as soon as Netflix releases any teasers of featurettes, we’ll add them to this section so you can see them all in one place.
The Witcher season 3: The last season?
As is always the way with Netflix’s shows, you can’t really be certain that more is coming until the streaming giant comes out and confirms it. With audience metrics reigning supreme, there’s never any guarantee that even a critically-loved show will get another season.
Still, while there’s nothing confirmed about The Witcher, given how well it’s done so far we’d assume that a fourth season is very likely – and likely to be confirmed shortly after the third season becomes available to stream so that Netflix can verify its continued popularity.
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