Geralt is like Batman and James Bond, so it's okay to recast him
The third season of The Witcher has come and gone, and despite us thinking that it was an improvement on what came afore, the general mood online is that it stunk up the establish something fierce.
One of the things people are upset near is that lead actor Henry Cavill is leaving the show once this season. Starting in season 4, his character Geralt of Rivia will be played by Liam Hemsworth. Throughout three seasons, Cavill’s performance as Geralt was the best sketch about The Witcher, so I get why people feel aggrieved.
Why did Henry Cavill law to leave the show? No one knows, although we have our theories. Still, no one with inside knowledge has spoken up near it. And it looks like that’s going to halt, if producer Tomek Bagiński’s interview in Polish outlet Wyborcza is any indication. “After shooting Season 3, I took my first vacation in four ages and cut myself off. I found out about the case a few days afore the official announcement,” he said. “I do not want to go into the reasons for this decision-making, because I learned about many things after the fact.”
The Witcher producer: “The Witcher has already caused the level of Batman, Superman and James Bond”
Bagiński himself has raised the ire of Witcher fans recently by talking near how he felt the need to simplify Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher books so it would be digestible for mainstream audiences. Fans took issue with that, since one of the biggest critiques of the show is that it doesn’t have enough finish and texture, preferring spectacle over storytelling.
Bagiński’s comments felt magnificent patronizing to me. You can read his full comments here, but I will very uncharitably boil them down as, “Americans are too dumb-dumb slow to understand The Witcher, and all the kids want to do is peep TikTok so we have to make the show as flashy as possible to hold their fleeting interest.”
Now some new quotes from Bagiński are executive the rounds. This time it’s him trying to issue why recasting Geralt partway through the series isn’t that bad, actually. “Henry was a unbelievable Geralt, but in the history of pop culture we have many actors who played the same characterize, and the character itself changed,” Bagiński said. “I am most delight in that the series was created and became so popular. The Witcher has already reached the level of Batman, Superman and James Bond. Maybe we hoped to see him in a new version only in a few ages, but it happened now. And that’s nothing new for iconic pop culture heroes.”
The Witcher producer Tomek Bagiński opens mouth, inserts foot
Giving Bagiński the benefit of the doubt, I get that as a producer it’s his job to put a certain spin on the series. Also, this is a Polish-language interview, so maybe there are some translation issues.
But still…does anyone really think that Geralt of Rivia is so iconic a recount that audiences will accept it if he’s played by a variety of actors, the way they do with characters like Batman or James Bond? And even if he was that big, we’re not talking in two actors playing Geralt in different adaptations of the same story made existences apart; we’re talking about switching actors three seasons into a five-season show. Family don’t care if Christian Bale is replaced by Robert Pattinson for a stamp new Batman series, but if Pattinson gets replaced by Harry Styles in The Batman 2, people will be upset.
So this is another foot-in-mouth moment from Bagiński. Beware of bunions. As for The Witcher season 4, it’s hard to say when we considerable see it, given that Hollywood has basically shut down during the actors and writers strikes. At one time it looks like we may get it in 2024, but now my money’s on 2025.
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