Netflix continues to mine the video game industry for new content.
With the online streamer already making progress on an animated Castlevania series – Dredd producer Adi Shankar is involved, and it’s set to make its bow before the year’s end – today brings word that Netflix is now teaming with Platige Image to engineer a live-action, English-language show based on The Witcher franchise.
As if that wasn’t exciting enough, the press release name-drops Andrzej Sapkowski, the esteemed Polish fantasy writer and founding father of The Witcher saga, as a creative consultant, though it’s currently unclear which of Sapkowski’s eight novels Netflix will choose to adapt.
It will, however, orbit around an “unconventional family,” according to executive producers Sean Daniel and Jason Brown (The Expanse), who noted that that central unit “comes together to fight for truth in a dangerous world. The characters are original, funny, and constantly surprising,...
With the online streamer already making progress on an animated Castlevania series – Dredd producer Adi Shankar is involved, and it’s set to make its bow before the year’s end – today brings word that Netflix is now teaming with Platige Image to engineer a live-action, English-language show based on The Witcher franchise.
As if that wasn’t exciting enough, the press release name-drops Andrzej Sapkowski, the esteemed Polish fantasy writer and founding father of The Witcher saga, as a creative consultant, though it’s currently unclear which of Sapkowski’s eight novels Netflix will choose to adapt.
It will, however, orbit around an “unconventional family,” according to executive producers Sean Daniel and Jason Brown (The Expanse), who noted that that central unit “comes together to fight for truth in a dangerous world. The characters are original, funny, and constantly surprising,...
- 5/17/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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