Minnie Driver joins The Witcher prequel collection

I wouldn’t have anticipated that Minnie Driver can be becoming a member of The Witcher franchise, however right here we’re. It was introduced throughout Netflix’s current TUDUM occasion that the actress can be becoming a member of the forged of The Witcher: Blood Origin, the upcoming prequel collection which revolves across the Conjunction of the Spheres and the creation of the primary prototype witcher.

The Witcher: Blood Origin creator Declan de Barra has since revealed particulars on who Minnie Driver will likely be enjoying within the prequel collection, and evidently her character will have an effect on the principle Witcher collection as nicely. Driver will play Seanchaí, who De Barra describes as “a shapeshifting storyteller that may journey between worlds and time. She’s primarily a collector of tales which are forgotten. She believes this story must be instructed once more within the trendy Witcher world for progress to be made sooner or later.” You’ll be able to take a look at a picture of Minnie Driver in The Witcher: Blood Origin under.

The Witcher: Blood Origin is ready in an elven world 1,200 years earlier than the world of The Witcher and can inform a narrative misplaced to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the occasions that result in the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, males, and elves merged to grow to be one.

Blood Origin finds Sophia Brown starring as Éile, “a warrior among the many once-thriving elven society who gave up her place within the Queens-guard to pursue the lifetime of a travelling minstrel.” Laurence O’Fuarain additionally stars as Fjall, an “elven strongman out to avenge the loss of life of a good friend,” with Michelle Yeoh rounding out the trio as Scian, “the final of a tribe of nomadic sword-elves on a mission to retrieve an historic sword that was stolen.” Though the present was conceived and shot as a six-episode collection, it was later condensed to four-episodes.

The Witcher: Blood Origin will premiere on Netflix on December twenty fifth, with the third season of The Witcher following in the summertime of 2023.