‘The Witcher’ Season 2 & Prequel News Roundup: Mid-September 2020

Throughout the first two weeks of September, filming took place at the sets that make up Kaer Morhen within Arborfield Studios. Besides the characters mentioned above (Ciri and the witchers), several new cast members have participated in the filming of what appears to be an original sequence of events not taken from Sapkowski’s novels. Once again, be warned that the details below may spoil scenes from season two. Read on at your own discretion.

Season two will introduce several new witchers, with multiple stuntmen and a couple of actors of diverse racial backgrounds joining Geralt and his old friends. It appears that these new witchers have participated in a complex fight sequence filmed over the last two weeks. What could they be fighting? Speculation has suggested that they could be fighting each other, a monster (such as the previously confirmed Leshy), or some external force of humans. Some fans have speculated that these events belong to a flashback sequence depicting the fall of Kaer Morhen, though that would not explain Ciri’s presence on set.

A number of actresses also joined the cast for the filming at Kaer Morhen. This comes as a surprise for two reasons: there are no female witchers, and only witchers are supposed to know Kaer Morhen’s location. Among these actresses, there are a notable number of models.

Redanian Intelligence speculates that one of these new actresses could be the aforementioned character “Anna”, described as “a fierce sex worker who joins a group of soldiers that she isn’t afraid to boss around”. If this is the case, the soldiers mentioned in the casting sheet would actually be witchers. Other fans guessed that these actresses will portray sorceresses who come to Kaer Morhen. Naturally, we’ll have to wait for season two to find out more.

Season two of The Witcher is set to complete filming in February of 2021, with a possible release in August (though this has not been confirmed by Netflix). Once the filming of season two is completed, production will begin on the prequel Blood Origin (with or without Jason Momoa). Meanwhile, the animated spinoff film Nightmare of the Wolf is currently in the works and will likely release closer to season two.

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