The one-minute teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin reveals the world of elves before the events of The Witcher. The teaser for the four-part prequel was accompanied by new posters featuring the characters Scían (Michelle Yeoh), Fjall (Laurence O’Fuarain), and Éile (Sophia Brown).
The event series’ cast also includes Minnie Driver as Seanchaí, Mirren Mack as Merwyn, Lenny Henry as Balor, Jacob Collins Levy as Eredin, and Lizzie Annis as Zacaré. Huw Novelli plays Callan “Brother Death”, Francesca Mills is Meldof, Amy Murray is Fenrik, Nathaniel Curtis stars as Brían, Zach Wyatt is Syndril, Dylan Moran is Uthrok One-Nut, and Joey Batey is Jaskier.
Declan de Barra created the series and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Lauren Hissrich, Matt O’Toole, Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko (Platige Films), and Jason Brown & Sean Daniel (Hivemind Content). Sarah O’Gorman and Vicky Jewson directed the prequel.
“Viewers will be surprised because they’re going to see a story told about a period of elven history that was buried by the humans after their arrival and eventual conquest of the continent,” said de Barra in an interview with Netflix’s Tudum. “We get to tell a tale about the elves when they were at their height, like all great societies before their fall.”
Showrunner de Barra also explained how this prequel impacts The Witcher‘s key characters.
“Blood Origin sets up certain core characters and fan favorites from the books in the later Witcher series. There are items and discoveries that are made in this world that play off in later seasons of The Witcher and have critical effects on the storyline,” stated de Barra. “Witcher creator Lauren Schmidt, the producers and I spent a lot of time seeding new Easter eggs and answering older Easter eggs from other episodes and series. We’re weaving a complex spider web of delicious story that stretches over thousands of years.”
Netflix offered the following description of the prequel:
“Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin tells a story lost to time – one of seven outcasts who unite against an unstoppable power that took everything from them. Their blood quest giving rise to a prototype Witcher in a conflict that brings about the ‘conjunction of the spheres,’ when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.”
The Witcher: Blood Origin premieres on Netflix on Sunday, December 25, 2022.
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