Warning, spoilers for The Witcher: After eight new episodes, the second season of the fantasy series The Witcher leaves us with a nasty cliffhanger and the urge to binge straight into the next season. The good news: Season 3 is definitely coming to Netflix. The bad news: We will have to wait a while before the new episodes start. When can we expect Season 3 on Netflix and how things will continue for Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer, we have summarized here for you.
Netflix launch: when is The Witcher season 3 coming?
The shooting of the 3rd season from The Witcher have been running at full speed since April 2022. Filming will take place in Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, England and Wales, among other places. Production is expected to last until August or September 2022.
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Unfortunately, with filming set to continue into late summer, there is bad news for fans. The Witcher season 3 will no longer on Netflix in 2022. Because after the shooting follows a longer post-production period. The new episodes are expected to be released in Spring 2023 on Netflix to start.
But Netflix has of course made provisions to provide us with new The Witcher content during the long break. It will start this year 6 part prequel miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin, which explores the continent’s past and highlights key events such as the conjunction of the spheres and the creation of the first witcher. A second animated film is also in the works.
Here’s the first teaser for The Witcher Blood Origin
The Witcher Blood Origin – Teaser Trailer (German) HD
Template: Which novel is The Witcher Season 3 based on?
While the first season, as an introduction to the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s witcher saga, filmed several short stories from the anthologies The Last Wish and The Sword of Providence, The Witcher season 2 was devoted in large part to the first novel in the main pentalogy series called The Legacy of the elves. In the 3rd season, the plot of the second volume is entitled The time of contempt adapted.
Storyline: What’s next for The Witcher Season 3 on Netflix?
Warning, spoilers for The Witcher Season 2: In the second season of The Witcher, Geralt (Henry Cavill), Ciri (Freya Allan) and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) finally found each other. Meanwhile, various factions are positioning themselves across the continent, all of which want to take control of Ciri for a variety of reasons. Season 3 should now provide answers as to what exactly the kingdoms of the north or Redania, the Wild Hunt and the Nilfgaardian Empire are planning.
Nilfgaard in particular will be the focus of attention again in season 3, after the real identity of the emperor was revealed to us for the first time at the very end of season 2 Emhyr var Emreis (Bart Edwards) was unveiled. Because the ruler of Nilfgaard aka the white flame is none other than Ciri’s biological father. This was previously known to us under the name Duny vom Erlenwald and was considered deceased.
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Emhyr var Emreis aka the White Flame
With a (spoiler-free) view of the novel The Age of Contempt, Ciri’s magical training is promoted by Yennefer in season 3. The Aretuza School of Magic will once again be the main setting here on the island of Thanedd be. On Thanedd we also expect a shocking event and at the same time the Highlight of the first three seasonsin which the course for the rest of the series is set.
Other events and mysteries that await us in Season 3
Season 2 surprised fans of the template with some changes and new storylines, which closed the narrative gaps in the books and already incorporated later revelations. So we can assume that season 3 will not implement the novel The Age of Contempt 1-to-1 and we can look forward to new mysteries and monsters.
The Cast of The Witcher Season 3 on Netflix
The central trio of characters from The Witcher will of course also be back in Season 3. Henry Cavill, Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra reprise their roles as Geralt of Rivia, Ciri and Yennefer.
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Geralt of Rivia
Of course, some familiar faces from Season 2’s massive cast of The Witcher will also return. It is not yet known whether Geralt’s witcher family from Khaer Morhen will be seen again.
In addition to numerous characters already presented, Season 3 will also some new characters bring into play. Already confirmed by Netflix:
More new additions for Season 3 are Sean Cernow and Frances Pooley. Jim Sturgeon takes on the role of Aplegatt, while Rochelle Rose and Saffiyya Ingar star as magicians Margarita Laux-Antille and Keira Metz.
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