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Reports in that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra have been cast as Ciri and Yen respectively.

   
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 Captain Joystick wrote:
Reports in that Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra have been cast as Ciri and Yen respectively.


Don't know them acting wise at all, but their appearances both seem to be on point.

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Did BAME go out the window?

Or was BAME not a consideration for Ciri - as per the leaked casting call?

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Mimi Ndiweni has been cast as one of two as-of-yet unnamed apprentices to MyAnna Burning's sorceress Tissaia - which lines up with the casting call needing her to be able to play 14.

Given the rest of the cast announced thus far... I think someone mushed two different casting calls together.

   
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I guess I'm getting old, I see those names and all I can think is "who?"

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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
I guess I'm getting old, I see those names and all I can think is "who?"


Nah, thats kind of the norm for shows with large casts.

I think when GoT first came out, offhand all I recognized were Sean Bean and Lena Headey. You'll see more familiar faces in later seasons if it gets more popular, and maybe a few of the initially unknown actors will become legit stars, like in GoT's case.

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Hmm.. maybe I'm biased from the game, but he kinda looks too young to me. Or is he supposed to be a younger Geralt?

 
   
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Shouldn't he look threatening in some way, rather than vaguely... morose?

@Necros- yeah. Needs stubble and weathering. Bit too late 20s executive apprentice with hair extensions.
Or a 'hair metal' version of Clark Kent, for some reason...

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Yeah... he needs a beard.

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Could be early years geralt. Good time to explore in my opinion. Weve already seen the later and end years for him in video game form. Would be nice to see a little something new.


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Pretty sure that he will, in fact, be bearded, come filming time!

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They can do a reverse Justice League and give him a CGI beard.
   
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It is titled as a costume and make-up test, so it's likely not the completely-finished-and-ready-for-filming version. Still needs some beard action.

Which is interesting as to how much Witcher 3 has set our expectations for his appearance. He didn't have a beard in the first two games. Likely not in the books, either (can't remember), as a character TW3 comments that he has grown a beard.

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The problem is that the actor simply doesn't look the part and the costume looks worse than low budget cosplays. You'd think with all the money saved by plagiarising Elric they could afford some good costumes.

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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
It is titled as a costume and make-up test, so it's likely not the completely-finished-and-ready-for-filming version. Still needs some beard action.

Which is interesting as to how much Witcher 3 has set our expectations for his appearance. He didn't have a beard in the first two games. Likely not in the books, either (can't remember), as a character TW3 comments that he has grown a beard.


Yeah, trying not to set my expectations around that game to much, as I know this is supposed to be based more on the books, but damn it was such a ground breaking and amazing game, it's hard not to.

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I've heard it is somewhat different for folks in Eastern Europe who read the books first and the game maybe never, but for a Netflix show... I don't think it unreasonable to suspect it's _probably_ aimed at the game audience.

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I've heard it is somewhat different for folks in Eastern Europe who read the books first and the game maybe never, but for a Netflix show... I don't think it unreasonable to suspect it's _probably_ aimed at the game audience.


I never played Witcher 1 and 2, but 3 at least did a good job of trying to be faithful to the book source material. There was a ton of little easter eggs about the books, multiple references to them, etc.

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 nels1031 wrote:


I think when GoT first came out, offhand all I recognized were Sean Bean and Lena Headey. You'll see more familiar faces in later seasons if it gets more popular, and maybe a few of the initially unknown actors will become legit stars, like in GoT's case.


I think part of that very much depends on which side of the pond you're on, a lot of the early adult cast were fairly common faces on British TV, maybe due to filming locations or bigger actors being a bit sniffy about a telly show about tits and dragons

Now Netflix et al is 'acceptable' you'll most likely see 'names' from the get go

still not convinced Cavill is the right call but he might surprise me

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Voss wrote:
I've heard it is somewhat different for folks in Eastern Europe who read the books first and the game maybe never, but for a Netflix show... I don't think it unreasonable to suspect it's _probably_ aimed at the game audience.


If so, they've chosen an interesting way to go about it, what with getting the original author involved and saying they were using the books as their primary inspiration.

And yes, the games take place after the books (certain flashback dreams directly referencing the books (and then called out in-game for not being directly faithful to the books!) nonwithstanding) so decelerated aging aside they can get away with a younger feeling Geralt.

While it is just a makeup test, if they felt confident enough to share it we're probably getting something pretty close in the end.

...

And I prefer this costume to the one you start with in 3.

   
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Well the books AND the game are primarily being told to the reader/player through a 3rd party narrator. The games are all stories Dandalion is telling latter. Which is why all the journal entries are written the way they are. And the books are sometimes geralt sitting somewhere telling stories.

Which makes all of their content the unreliable narrator. None of it can be taken for fact.


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 djones520 wrote:
Yeah... he needs a beard.


He needs to be Tim Roth...Jerome Flynn would work too, as would Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; but they're both working.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

Which is interesting as to how much Witcher 3 has set our expectations for his appearance. He didn't have a beard in the first two games. Likely not in the books, either (can't remember), as a character TW3 comments that he has grown a beard.


I think it extends beyond the visual, in the games Geralt has always been portrayed as a haggard old man who gets swept up in things he would rather be left out of. Henry Cavil's Geralt looks like Superman with a wig.

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I dont think its that he is old, more world weary.
He has seen more petty evil and selfish acts then any one would want and done more that he ever wanted getting roped in to them, whether he ended up for filling them or tried to stop them to want to get involved ever again.
   
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After looking at the Twitter replies to the casting announcement I'm kind of disappointed that Mads Mikkelson didn't get the part.

 
   
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I liked that. Looks like they are going to show Yennefer before and after her change and I really like that. It might give her character a little more depth.

I was one of the people who questioned their choice for Geralt. But he is fitting in to it quite well. Better than Mads Mikkelsen could have, I am afraid.
   
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I'm willing to give it a chance, but i've got a funny feeling it'll turn out just like so many other video game adaptations. It's a curse that just won't shake.

 
   
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 Thargrim wrote:
I'm willing to give it a chance, but i've got a funny feeling it'll turn out just like so many other video game adaptations. It's a curse that just won't shake.


If it helps this isn't an adaptation of the video game but of the books which the games were based on.

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Interesting and consistent lack of a second sword, which is kind of weird for such a signature thing.

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 Ahtman wrote:
 Thargrim wrote:
I'm willing to give it a chance, but i've got a funny feeling it'll turn out just like so many other video game adaptations. It's a curse that just won't shake.


If it helps this isn't an adaptation of the video game but of the books which the games were based on.

Judging by the cast choices, it’s not even that. More like its own thing. Nearly all female characters look nothing like the books described, to put it lightly.
Dunno, I was cautiously excited before the teaser, now - not so much.
And Geralt’s bare physique looks comical. Oh, and Nilf armor is just plain ridiculous. Like raisins and garbage bags had many babies

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