Update: This anime movie will focus not on Geralt, but his teacher, Vesemir (thanks, Eurogamer). The official description is as follows:
Long before mentoring Geralt, Vesemir begins his own journey as a witcher after the mysterious Deglan claims him through the Law of Surprise.
Mark Hamill, then? He certainly looks the part...
Original Story [Thu 23rd Jan, 2020 02:10 GMT]: After the success of the books and video games, Netflix is cashing in on The Witcher. Most recently we saw it release season one of its digital series starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, and now the streaming giant is interested telling more stories from the same universe.
Following ongoing rumours, it has confirmed The Witcher "anime" film is indeed a thing. This was confirmed by the official @NXOnNetflix Twitter account, which went on to explain how this upcoming movie was titled The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf and is being handled by The Witcher's showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich and writer Beau DeMayo.
As noted, the story will be about a "new threat" facing the Continent, and Studio Mir – the studio behind The Legend of Korra – will be helping out. This follows the recent news that the first season of Netflix's Witcher series was viewed by 76 million households for at least two minutes. Odd, we know.
Would you be interested in an animated film based on The Witcher? Tell us down in the comments.
[source eurogamer.net]
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It'll be interesting seeing Studio Mir take on a project meant for an older audience.
@Zeraki Exactly what I thought.
The animation in The Legend Of Korra was top-notch. Honestly, we need more companies like Studio Mir working on western projects.
You can do so much more with anime than with live action. Just one reason I prefer 2D animation over live action with loads of CG!
After how good the first season of The Witcher was I'll take whatever more Witcher I can get. Especially if they have more catchy songs
Animation wise this should be top-notch! Studio Mir has amazing animation. It's the story that is going to leave me skeptical here. Here's hoping it turns out well.
A Witcher cartoon made by Studio Mir? Well that’s disappointing.
@locky-mavo How?
I'm really confused as to why this is happening. We have the show and it's amazing. The show wasn't canceled, this seems out of place. Maybe if the show was cancelled I could see this happening.
@Belatarr I’m curious why?
@Radbot42 that is why: €€€
I may not have liked Korra as part of the Avatar The Last Airbender world (Story reasons and continuity and whatever).......
But man, I can't deny the animation was stellar though! Pretty exciting! The fight scenes were some of the best!
@locky-mavo Anime is not cartoons.
Also, how is this disappointing
@LetsGoSwitch Studio Mir is a Korean company that produces American content. Including The Boondocks. (And a couple projects for Tencent.)
Anime and cartoons are both animation. It's hard to define what exactly counts as anime, but it is perfectly reasonable to not accept an animation involving no Japanese companies as anime.
Okay, that is just silly.
But apparently the Witchermania keeps on going. First locally with the books, then more and more globally with each game and now the Netflix series is going full throttle with it.
Fun fact: the Netflix series has a full dub in Polish (really unusual for a live action adult show) and the actor from the Hexer tv show voices Geralt again.
I'm not sure about the books or the show, but the games always seemed to lean more towards the grounded side of fantasy tales, so I'm not sure why someone thought an anime movie would be a good idea given anime usually does the complete opposite. That said, I also thought the live-action show was probably gonna flop, so who knows, maybe this'll work (the castlevania anime seems to have been well-received).
@Mr_SP I know some feel that way about anime having to come from Japan, but that's just silly. It's like saying fondue isn't fondue because you're not eating it in France. Anime is best defined a style of animation, and it really should have nothing to do with whether or not non-Japanese people are producing it.
@doctommaso The entire distinction is kinda stupid IMO, because in Japan they're all called 'anime'. It's perfectly fine to use the word anime to refer to Japanese cartoons, but I always think it's kinda silly when people get stuck up when you call Avatar an anime, or something from Japan a cartoon.
I'll take all the Witcher I can get! Haters gon' hate...
I see the game snowflakes have made it here. Oh noes there are ladies in the show! Ladies with clothes!
Laughing at these losers is so much fun.
@StevenG Exactly.
@Belatarr I can't disagree. Netflix is a brazen repeat offender when it comes to inserting modern views and contemporary western politics with reckless abandon into their material, much to the detriment of the shows themselves. The Witcher world is among the last IPs that should be enduring this fresh-out-of-college writing crutch, as it is canonically a world rife with prejudice and class warfare. A world where dwarves and sorceresses are imprisoned based on their appearance or occupation is hardly or believably going to feature a diverse cast of characters enjoying unaccosted, arguably-integrated lives in public spaces (especially Novigrad), with dualling male and female homosexual character plots balanced just so, as if featuring characters for every real life demographic will somehow make the quality of the now-unrealistic and predictable writing any more tolerable (and as if those real life demographics are so small-minded that they require a character packaged up in a bow specifically for them in order to relate to their stories — the fact that a video game series about an Italian plumber who saves a princess named after a fruit from a villainous dinosaur is among the most beloved franchises of all time tells you all you need to know about how non-discriminatory most people actually are when it comes to consuming media).
It's a shame Netflix have their hands on such a strong series, it would be a show for the ages in AMC's hands, though they too are no strangers to this sort of writing crutch (see The Walking Dead). Still, they brought Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul to the world, which has to count for something. It's also a shame for the Legend Of Korra as well; I love The Last Airbender (I still have yet to see the full show beginning to end), but having read how the sequel series shirked continuity from the original show does dampen your enthusiasm a bit. A great IP like that deserves to be handled with more care and consideration than what Studio Mir were able to offer it, I'm afraid. I do appreciate that it is a cartoon or anime-style show, however, and I'm sure it will be a great improvement over the live action Netflix Witcher show.
God forbid other people enjoy things that you don’t I guess.
@Belatarr Too right, it's all very by-the-numbers. One can practically guess what the composition of the scenes will be based on what obsessed critics demand to see from these shows. Guaranteed scenes depicting exclusively female characters talking about non male-oriented topics or characters for at least two minutes, proto-feminism in a medieval fantasy setting, the works. Makes for very samey television, even if this sort of thing actually appeals to you. Might as well have the characters recite dialogue from a Star Wars plotline given how relevant the writing is to the IP, and as long as someone likes it, it is immune to any and all thoughtful criticism, apparently.
I would if the time and interest were there, but it's just a show at the end of the day lol. God forbid the Mensa members among us here be confronted with foreign ideas, as even the slightest disturbance is a direct personal assault. Par for the course these days, a time in which we are encouraged to associate products with lifestyles, essentially "living" our lives in devotion to certain companies, shows, products, etc. (think Apple). I say that as an avid pro-Reaganomics supporter of capitalism, too. Light criticism of something they like is no different from a direct personal attack that must be silenced and ignored at all costs. It's a very insular world we're living in these days.
Man those losers are butthurt.
Get over it, kids.
Good thing studio mir is doing this and not Warner/DC animation.
It’s gonna be young Vesemir played by Theo James. He voiced him off screen in one episode of the series so that’s that mystery solved.
@LetsGoSwitch This isn't anime. It's being run by Americans and animated in South Korea. If you don't want to call it a cartoon then fine, think of some other word for it, but it's definitely not anime.
@Gwynbleidd It was okay I thought, but the budget was clearly far, far too low, and some of the casting was weak. Jaskier/Dandelion was terrible for example.
Plus they deviated too much from the books. Far too much sharp dialogue was cut to make way for tedious battle sequences.
@deucezulu22 I guess @locky-mavo thinks “animation = made for babies”.
If it’s from Studio Mir it’s not TECHNICALLY anime, but whatever, should still be great!
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