Netflix surprises Witcher season 2 watchers with Blood Origin prequel teaser

(Pocket-lint) - Netflix has released a teaser trailer for a prequel to The Witcher.

Called The Witcher: Blood Origin, it's a live-action bid based connected Anderzej Sapkowski’s acheronian phantasy novels, and it's scheduled to merchandise adjacent year. Netflix amazed fans who watched play 2 of The Witcher, which premiered connected 17 December, by rolling footage of the upcoming amusement aft the credits. The spinoff bid is acceptable thousands of years earlier the mainline Witcher show.

The teaser shows 3 elves - played by Michelle Yeoh, Laurence O'Fuarain, and Sophia Brown - traveling into the woods and warring soldiers. Yeoh plays Scian, the past subordinate of a people of sword-elves, portion O'Fuarain plays Fjall, a antheral calved into a radical of warriors sworn to support a king, and Brown plays Eile, a warrior who near her clan and spot arsenic Queen’s guardian to beryllium a musician.

Netflix hasn't shared the teaser to YouTube yet, but if you hunt it, you tin find it connected respective different channels that person uploaded it. We embedded 1 above, but it mightiness beryllium pulled successful the coming days since it's not an authoritative clip. 

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The trailer doesn’t supply galore different clues - but Blood Origin volition absorption connected the Conjunction of the Spheres, oregon erstwhile humans, elves, and monsters each travel to inhabit the phantasy world. Netflix is moving connected gathering retired The Witcher Universe not lone with Blood Origin but besides a 3rd play of the archetypal amusement arsenic good arsenic a 2nd animated movie (Nightmare of the Wolf was the first).

The streaming work has besides green-lit a Witcher children's series.

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 18 December 2021.