The movie adaptation of The Witcher will be spearheaded by producer Sean Daniel, best known for the Mummy series and its various Scorpion King-related spin-offs, who will work alongside Poland’s own Platige Films. Tomek Baginski, a Polish filmmaker best known for his Oscar-nominated animated short The Cathedral, will make his feature debut with The Witcher. Thania St. John, whose credits include episodes of Grimm, Eureka, and Roswell is writing the screenplay. Despite having an experienced director of animation at the helm and a the backing of a studio known for creating animation for The Witcher, all signs point to this movie being live-action. The Witcher series follows Geralt, a white-haired, yellow-eyed warrior who has dedicated his life to hunting down monsters and supernatural threats. However, he doesn’t do it out of the goodness of his own heart – he’s out to make a living and getting paid for his services is part of his code. The war-ravaged land he calls home feels like the halfway point between Middle-Earth and Westeros – it’s full of monsters and creatures and other high fantasy elements, but everyone who lives there is either poor and miserable or wealthy and scheming for more power.
The film is expected to be the first in a series (of course) and will “be based on themes from the short stories ‘The Witcher’ and ‘Lesser Evil’ from ‘The Last Wish’ collection.” In other words, it’ll probably be its own thing rather than a straightforward adaptation, but that’s fine. The video games kinda did their own thing with the stories they were based on, too.
Alcuni concept dallo storyboard:
Il budget č stimato attorno ai 30 mln di dollari. Pare che un attore piuttosto famoso si sia reso volontario per il ruolo di Geralt, queste sono le parole di Baginski alla PolCon.
Una vecchia intervista ad una radio Polacca, con Baginski:
Ps: speriamo non sia una merdata clamorosa.
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Originariamente Scritto da Eliwan
