Netflix working on 'The Witcher' series

I hope they can pull this off, it would be fantastic.

http://www.platige.com/en/page/839-The_Witcher_Saga_On_Netflix

Has Netflix done a series with HBO levels of nudity and violence? Because that’s what it’s going to take for it to be a good Witcher adaptation.

Bringing this drowner back to announce that we have our Geralt of Rivia: Henry Cavill.

… not bad. Not bad at all. I can see it working.

Pretty certain Geralt was never concerned about being labelled a rapist.

Altered Carbon has several minutes where people aren’t naked or killing each other or naked and killing each other.

“Netflix is developing a Witcher series…” Yay!

“…starring Henry Cavill” Nay!

Have you seen the latest Mission Impossible film? He’s very good there, with a fine physicality and understated wit; his sardonic reactions to Tom Cruise’s antics are perfect (that little eye-roll he makes before he reaches for a machine gun is itself worth the price of admission). I think he can make a fine Geralt.

Nope. I did see him in Man From U.N.C.L.E. , he was good in that. My objection isn’t that I don’t think he can act, it’s that I don’t think he’s a good fit for Geralt. Too much the pretty-boy.

Cavill is a big strong fella. Hardly a pretty boy in the Jared Leto sense.

You know, I’ve read the books, and at no point does it say that Geralt isn’t good-looking. Rough and rugged, yes, scarred and intimidating, definitely, but considering the amount of women throwing themselves at him, I would hesitate to call him ugly.

Besides, is thisyour idea of a “pretty boy”?

no offense but you know were all gonna be disappointed if theres not a uninhibited moderate to big busted redhead in one or two bath scenes …….

Incidentally, he wasn’t my first choice either - I was hoping for Jim Caviezel or Timothy Olyphant. But he’ll do.

Ugly is not the antonym of pretty-boy. I would not call Cavill, buff as he is, “rough and rugged”, at least the way he’s normally presented.

Very much so, yes. The perfectly pomaded hair, the neatly-trimmed moustache and the artfully tailored stubble?

He looked a lot less pretty-boyish when bearded up in MoS, though. But it’s not his usual look.

I should point out - pretty-boy is also not meant (by me, anyway) as a synonym for effeminate. The operative word there is much more intended to be “boy” than “pretty”. Being bearded or mustachioed doesn’t preclude someone from being a pretty-boy.

I should also say - this isn’t me saying I won’t watch it, or enjoy it. Just that Cavill’s casting doesn’t excite me at all, the way announcement of the series itself did.

Me, I’d prefer someone not English or American - a Nordic or Polish actor. Gustav Skarsgard, bulked up, would be ideal…not his brothers, though, they’re all pretty-boys too.

You realize that actors have very little say on how their hair will look in a movie, right? You might as well criticize him for his costumes, or for the set design.

Calling him a pretty-boy is not a criticism of him. It’s a criticism of his image, which I agree is carefully tailored by both crew and publicists. But that image, for me, is one of pretty-boy.

The image you linked to is of a character who clearly cares quite a bit about his appearance. Metrosexual would be another appropriate term. I can’t see his hands, but I’d bet that guy’s nails are manicured.

I am disappointed that they’re going with Cavill, but only because I had hoped that they’d use someone relatively unknown as Geralt. Shows like this seem to work best when the lead character(s) come in without too many prior associations. I don’t want to be thinking: hey, it’s Superman as Geralt! Oh, well.

As I understand it, the show will be based on the books, not the games. I wonder where they’ll start?

First images from the show.
It’s not much, but I’m cautiously optimistic.

I’m sorry but is this a writing staff or A High School chess club?

Their wokeness aside, they seem to have one person over 30??

…and?