The Witcher Season 2: Release date, trailers and more

(Pocket-lint) - The archetypal play of Netflix's The Witcher was a immense deed for the streaming service, filling a spread successful the marketplace near vacant by the underwhelming extremity of Game of Thrones.

Its big storylines and whirling enactment person attracted plentifulness of caller fans, alongside the legions already good connected committee acknowledgment to the palmy CD Projekt Red games. Now a 2nd play is coming - so, work connected to find retired each the cardinal details.

The Witcher Season 2 merchandise date

Netflix announced this summertime that The Witcher's 2nd play volition debut connected its streaming platform soon earlier Christmas, and it besides released the archetypal trailer for the caller season, which you tin spot above.

The amusement is acceptable to instrumentality 17 December 2021. Netflix announced the quality during an inaugural WitcherCon event. It besides provided the archetypal full-length look astatine the upcoming season, which you tin ticker above.

From what we tin tell, the 2nd play picks up wherever the archetypal play ended, with Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) gathering up with exiled Princess Cirilla. The duo goes to Kaer Morhen - the upland fortress wherever Geralt trained - truthful that Ciri tin go a witcher, too. It doesn't look easy, to accidental the least.

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Now, arsenic portion of its Tudum event, a caller yearly look astatine what Netflix has planned, we've got a longer trailer to chew on, arsenic well.

The Witcher Season 2: Story

For those who've work the books oregon played definite parts of the games, the communicative is simply a known quantity, but we don't cognize however intimately Netflix is going to instrumentality to the established canon. Still, it looks similar this play volition connection much of the same, arsenic the empire successful Nilfgaard seeks to get Ciri backmost astatine immoderate cost.

In summation to the trailers and date, Netflix teased a behind-the-scenes featurette with Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan (who play Yennefer and Ciri, respectively), arsenic good arsenic Jaskier’s caller maroon wardrobe, and vague occurrence titles for play two. Cavill adjacent said the adjacent play volition person a caller opus from Jaskier.

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— The Witcher (@witchernetflix) July 9, 2021

So, you tin expect to spot much of your favourite characters from the archetypal season.

The Witcher Season 3 confirmed

Another invited announcement from the Tudum unrecorded watercourse was that Netflix is continuing to slope connected The Witcher's occurrence - it's already greenlit a 3rd play of the show. This means we don't person to interest (yet) astir the hazard of cancellation ending immoderate storylines prematurely.

On apical of that, there's a live-action prequel bid coming called The Witcher: Blood Origin, and Netflix besides made the astonishment announcement that it's moving connected an animated amusement successful the Witcher beingness that'll beryllium suitable for families and kids.

If that sounds a small spot of an unusual fit, it could travel arsenic a alleviation to immoderate parents getting bushed of telling their kids they can't ticker the amusement itself.

Writing by Maggie Tillman and Max Freeman-Mills. Originally published connected 10 July 2021.