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RSS FeedsNetflix's Witcher Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Says They Won't Adapt The Games
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20 july 2019 05:15:42

 
Netflix's Witcher Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Says They Won't Adapt The Games
(GameSpot PSP News)
 


Netflix`s Witcher show has become one of our most anticipated series of 2019, and with good reason. The Witcher universe is rich with characters, stories, and lore, whether from the original books by Andrzej Sapkowski, or the popular games that followed later.During The Witcher`s lively Comic-Con panel, showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich took the stage with actors Henry Cavill (Geralt), Freya Allan (Ciri), and Anya Chalotra (Yennefer) to debut the new trailer and some exclusive footage, which raised our expectations even higher. After the panel, we got the chance to chat with Hissrich, and her answer to our biggest question surprised us.At the panel, Hissrich revealed that `The Last Wish`--a collection of short stories that`s considered the first book in the series--was her item into the Witcher universe, and the book she loves the most. In a group interview later, she elaborated, explaining that much of The Witcher`s first season on Netflix is based on The Last Wish.`The Last Wish was the first book I read, so--you know how, with anything, the first time you experience a world, you fall in love with it in a totally different way. I love all of the books, but that was really my entrance into the world. So yeah, I drew a lot from it,` the showrunner said. `It really is [the] worldbuilding in The Last Wish that I found to be the most important thing.``When I first started talking to Netflix about the show, I think everyone assumed that we would start with the saga [the books that make up the main Witcher story], because that`s sort of the most serialized storytelling and would lend itself to bingeing,` she continued. `And I said, `You can`t do that without setting up the world first.` I guess that was a big challenge, too, was where to begin.`The next logical question, of course, was whether the Netflix show will draw from CD Projekt`s acclaimed and beloved video games as well. The answer? Nope--even if Netflix`s Witcher show goes on so long that it runs out of bo ...


 
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