Despite not being written intentionally this way, The Witcher’s third season gives Henry Cavill’s Geralt of Rivia a “heroic sendoff”.
That’s according to series creator and showrunner Lauren Hissrich. Talking to EW, Hissrich reflected on Cavill’s time on the show, saying the team wanted to “honour that appropriately”.
According to Hissrich, season three of The Witcher has taken inspiration from author Andrzej Sapkowski’s fourth book, Time of Contempt.
“What is so interesting is that season three, to me, is the closest thing that we’ve done as a one-to-one adaptation of the books,” Hissrich revealed.
“Obviously, we can’t do every page, but Time of Contempt gave us so many big action events, plot points, defining character moments, huge reveals of a big bad. There’s so much to do that we were able to stick really, really closely with the books.”