Before Liam Hemsworth has his chance to play Geralt of Rivia, season 4 will be a pivotal moment for the franchise, either reviving interest or worsening the already divisive reception, with many viewers criticizing the show's excessive changes to the source material books.
The Witcher season 4 will be out sometime in the back half of 2025, but it's not the only piece of media for fans to look forward to. Netflix has an animated Witcher film coming out in February of this year, with much of The Witcher show's cast reprising their roles, including Anya Chalotra and Joey Batey, who play Yennefer and Jaskier, respectively. Despite Liam Hemsworth taking over for Cavill in the live-action saga, he won't be the one voicing Geralt of Rivia in Sirens of the Deep, creating a strange preface for his performance later this year.
Doug Cockle Voicing Geralt In The Witcher: Sirens Of The Deep Raises The Bar For Liam Hemsworth
The Witcher Video Games' Voice Actor Returns
Doug Cockle is an American actor best known for voicing Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher video game franchise, and he'll be returning to the role for Sirens of the Deep. This means two actors will be playing Geralt in 2025: the one who fans of the franchise have considered the definitive version of the character for years and the unproven newcomer who's taking the place of a fan favorite. There's nothing concrete to suggest that Liam Hemsworth won't be fantastic as Geralt, but he undoubtedly has a viewer base to prove himself to.
Now, to bring in another already beloved performer will only increase the pressure on The Witcher season 4,
The Witcher has proven to have an enormous audience pool who are dedicated to these characters from reading the books and playing the video games. Part of what made Henry Cavill so special as the lead was that he, too, was a fan of the franchise and had enormous respect for that same source material. Any backlash toward Hemsworth isn't about him but rather the absence of Cavill. Now, to bring in another already beloved performer will only increase the pressure on The Witcher season 4, lest animation take over as the primary medium for this series.
The Witcher’s New Movie Just Proved What The Netflix Show Got Wrong
Netflix’s The Witcher movie looks great, but it’s also a reminder of what the show got wrong about Geralt and what made him so interesting.
Is The Witcher: Sirens Of The Deep's Geralt The Same One From The TV Show?
Sirens Of The Deep Is Connected To The TV Series
The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep's story is set in the same universe as the Netflix series, making it even more strange that now three actors will have played this version of Geralt. Aside from the movie's narrative explicitly occurring during the events of the TV show's first season, actors from the show are reprising their characters in voice roles, as previously mentioned. This makes it even more bizarre that Liam Hemsworth won't be making his first The Witcher appearance in the movie.
Based on the novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski and the video games, The Witcher follows the story of Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. "Ciri" Cirilla is the Princess of Cintra, who has magical abilities and whose fate has been linked to Geralt's. Yennefer of Vengerberg, a sorceress who trains to become a mage before deserting her duties and going solo, is also a main character in the Netflix series. The show's storylines are intertwined but told throughout different timelines, all of which eventually catch up to Ciri's, whose timeline of events is the most recent. Set on the Continent where men, monsters, and elves exist together, the characters all have separate journeys, though their destinies bring them into each others' orbits.
- Network
- Netflix
- Cast
- Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Adam Levy, Amit Shah, Liam Hemsworth, Laurence Fishburne
- Franchise(s)
- The Witcher
