“Yeah, I don’t know. We’ll see,” Andoh told Radio Times (opens in new tab). “The books are so huge. And they’ve gone so many different ways in the stories. Nenneke is in the books a lot. But it depends what they want to do with, you know, this version of it.”

Andoh appeared in two episodes of The Witcher season 2 as Nenneke, the priestess at the Temple of Melitele who offered counsel and guidance to Geralt and Ciri. Fans of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books and short stories will be acutely aware that Nenneke returns later in the series – though not in the Time of Contempt, the novel that The Witcher season 3 is set to adapt.

We’re likely to find out soon whether Nenneke is back in the third season. That’s because The Witcher season 3 has begun filming. There’s even a synopsis to tide us over in the meantime, which teases Ciri and Yennefer upping sticks to a familiar location. 

It reads: “As monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent compete to capture her, Geralt takes Ciri of Cintra into hiding, determined to protect his newly reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Entrusted with Ciri’s magical training, Yennefer leads them to the protected fortress of Aretuza, where she hopes to discover more about the girl’s untapped powers; instead, they discover they’ve landed in a battlefield of political corruption, dark magic, and treachery. They must fight back, put everything on the line – or risk losing each other forever.”

Even if the Continent doesn’t come calling for Andoh, she’s likely going to reprise her role as Lady Banbury in Bridgerton season 3. For more on some of Netflix’s most bingeable series, check out our collection of the best Netflix shows.

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Allegedly injuring himself on an assault course “involving swinging axes” where he’d been “20ft high in trees and on a safety harness” at Arborfield Studios, The Sun (opens in new tab) reports that Cavill has now been advised to rest, consequently “mess[ing] up the filming schedule”.

“The filming has been hit because of what happened to Henry. He was on an assault course and injured his leg,” a source told The Sun. “He just suddenly pulled up and was clearly in a lot of pain. It wasn’t clear if an object had hit his leg or it was some sort of hamstring or muscle injury.

“It wasn’t bad enough to need an ambulance but it’s messed up the filming schedule as he can’t walk properly,” the source added. “He has to wear heavy armour in the scenes and he just wouldn’t be able to do it with his leg injury.”

It’s the second time in recent weeks production has drawn to a stop. Just a month ago, filming was halted when more positive Covid-19 cases were confirmed on set (opens in new tab), but filming had reportedly started up again after the team got the all-clear.

No delays have been announced and The Witcher season 2 is still set to hit Netflix in 2021 – in a Reddit AMA (opens in new tab) earlier this year, showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich wrote: “We don’t yet have a target launch date for season 2, past 2021… We don’t want to rush the product.” 

In related news, new public casting calls (opens in new tab) recently offered a glimpse of what we might expect from The Witcher prequel series, The Witcher: Blood Origin. Though the calls stopped short of revealing names, we did learn that producers are looking for performers for two unconfirmed characters, codenamed G and Z respectively, and the casting agent is keen to welcome actors with similar disabilities to that of the characters themselves.

We learned that The Witcher (opens in new tab) was getting a live-action prequel back in July (opens in new tab). Set 1,200 years before the adventures of Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer on The Continent, The Witcher: Blood Origin will chart the origins of the very first Witcher. The Witcher Netflix series showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich also on board as executive producer, and the show is expected to run as a six-part limited series. 

With Blood Origin being joined by The Witcher season 2 (opens in new tab) and an animated movie adventure starring Vesemir (opens in new tab), it’s clear that the world of The Witcher is only just getting started. 

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Redanian Intelligence (opens in new tab) reports that Danica (Imogen Daines) – previously glimpsed in a short scene laying next to Geralt in season 1’s third episode before he took off for Temeria to go monster huntin’ – is back for the second season.

For the most part, season 2 will be a “much more focused” story (opens in new tab), which means no crisscrossing timelines and confusing chronological orders. What there is going to be, though, is flashbacks.

“We get to do flashbacks, we get to do flash-forwards, we get to actually integrate time in a completely different way that we weren’t able to do in season 1,” showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich previously told The Wrap (opens in new tab).

Either Danica forms part of those flashbacks (we only see part of her history with Geralt, after all), or she returns in season 2 – which is set roughly a couple of decades after her original appearance – as a more fleshed-out character.

If it is the latter, let’s hope The Witcher takes its own writers’ advice (opens in new tab) and makes it clearer this time when exactly everything is taking place. My head still hurts from trying to figure out why Jaskier was babyfaced for decades. The Continent’s face balm isn’t that good.

The Witcher season 2 is currently filming and is set for release in 2021.

For more from The Witcher season 2, check out what we can expect from all the new characters (opens in new tab) set to appear.

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“There’s a grace and an art form to animation, and especially anime, that allows a different flavour,” Beau DeMayo told ComicBook.com (opens in new tab) of the upcoming film that will chart the origins of Vesemir, a mentor to Geralt set to be played by Kim Bodnia in The Witcher season 2 (opens in new tab).

Nightmare of the Wolf isn’t here to be a stopgap before season 2, either. It’s going bigger. DeMayo says it aims to tell a story “we could never tell in our live-action scope.” That includes traditional Witcher fare (“magic and monsters and adventure and romance,” DeMayo teased), as well as the script including “certain things it takes advantage of in terms of animation that only animation can do.”

DeMayo adds: “There are things that you can animate in an animated form that will look so amazing, so badass, that if you did it in action, in live-action, it’s just going to look goofy or it’s just going to register as a little false to the human eye.”

What that means is open to interpretation, but we can possibly expect larger, more complex battles, monsters not bound by CGI budgets, and several action sequences that Henry Cavill and company couldn’t have achieved as part of the mainline Witcher series.

Nightmare of the Wolf will launch on Netflix later this year.

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The report says that Hivju will portray Nivellen, who appeared in Andrzej Sapkowski’s short story “A Grain of Truth”. The alleged confirmation comes via a cast sheet and describes the character – codenamed “Nigel” by the production team – as a “charismatic, witty, and funny man” from an aristocratic family. 

In the original story, Nivellen is a cursed man who has beastly powers and lives in a secluded manor house – think the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. 

The initial reports came after director Stephen Surjik accidentally announced the casting on Instagram. In a now-deleted post, Surjik wrote that they were scouting locations for The Witcher season 2, and tagged Henry Cavill (Geralt), Anya Chalotra (Yennefer), and Hivju. While social media activity is not always a definitive barometer of what’s happening next, it was certainly enough to get fans excited. 

In other The Witcher casting news, Peaky Blinders actor Paul Bullion is reportedly set to play Lambert (opens in new tab), while Yasen Atour will portray Coen.

Still obsessed with The Witcher? Get the full picture with our Witcher timeline (opens in new tab), plus have all your finale questions answered with our guide to The Witcher ending (opens in new tab).

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When a humble bardWrote a catchy songYou tweeted and asked usWhat’s taking so long?The Witcher Soundtrack Vol. 1 debuts everywhere 24 January. “Toss A Coin” single out now: https://t.co/Id6mEUhRf0 pic.twitter.com/PNMxBeFlkSJanuary 22, 2020

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The announcement from the official Netflix The Witcher account also reveals that we’ll get the entire soundtrack on January 24, which will likely include Jaskier’s bawdy pub song from episode two, the music he plays in Cintra during Pavetta’s banquet, and a bunch of the show’s score. I can’t wait to drive my roommates nuts with this. 

As we previously reported (opens in new tab) when we spoke to the song’s composers, Toss a Coin to Your Witcher underwent some heavy workshopping before it became the song that has entranced us all (there was even a rap version). Once The Witcher dropped on Netflix the song spread like wildfire, with people far more talented than I making techno remixes, metal covers, and more. But until now, you couldn’t stream it on Spotify – this meant if I wanted to listen to it on my commute I had to load up the scene on Netflix before heading into a tunnel on the L train. This is far more convenient.

No one will judge you if you’ve daydreamed about stepping off the platform and onto the train just as Jaskier’s voice swells, imploring you to donate some money to your local witcher. Maybe you’ve considered running on the treadmill as the song builds, pushing yourself a bit further in honor of Geralt’s rippling muscles. Maybe you’re practicing for the next karaoke night, knowing full well this song would bring down the house. Whatever your use for Geralt’s anthem, rest easy knowing it’s available now for your streaming (and repeating pleasure).

While writing this piece, I listened to the song eight nine times. I’m keeping track.

If all this coin tossing has you impatient for The Witcher season 2 (opens in new tab), we’ve got all the info you’ll need.

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“God, we hope so!” Hissrich said when questioned about whether every accidental Starbucks cup was removed from her show. “No, I mean, it’s interesting. I was in VFX a couple of weeks ago, and someone’s keen eyes – we were watching something for something else, and someone said, ‘Are those car headlights?’ And you’re like, ‘Yep, those are car headlights.’ There are not a lot of cars in The Witcher.”

“So, you know, the good news is that by the time an episode makes it to air, hundreds of people have watched it. And so we hope that there is nothing like that.”

Hissrich also spoke to GamesRadar+ about the oft-used label for The Witcher as the ‘new Game of Thrones’: “The comparison is ultimately incredibly flattering, because at the end of the day, for a new television show to be premiering into a world, and for people to be saying, ‘I think it could be as successful or as popular as that show’ – that’s incredible.”

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