First was an update of WOW now we get The Witcher, what game will be next?
Video game movies seem to be hitting their stride as a string of movies appear on the horizon. Both Director Duncan Jones Warcraft and Justin Kurzel’s Assassins Creed will be making their way onto the big screen next year, but now the popular game series Witcher joins them.
In a press release by Polish film company Platige Image, they announced that they have joined forces with Sean Daniel Company, the team behind The Mummy franchise, to adapt the novels on which the games are based. According to Platige Image the film adaptation will be directed by Tomasz Bagiński, the man who was behind the cinematics on the Witcher games and also was nominated for an Oscar for the animated short film The Cathedral.
Currently the creative director at Platige Company, Bagiński’s feature length Witcher film will focus on Geralt, the main protagonist of the The Witcher novels and games. With themes from the short novels The Witcher and Lesser Evil providing much of the frame work for the film, fans will relive the events from Lesser Evil that details how Geralt gained the moniker of ‘the butcher of Blaviken.’
Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans will also be excited by the presence of Thania St. John, who has written for numerous television show including the seminal slayer-with-a-tude series. Who has been tapped to write the screenplay for the film scheduled for release in 2017, the first in which is
It is also worth noting that the film wont be the first to be based on the Witcher, with Polish film The Hexer released in 2001. The film started life as an unreleased 13-episode Tv series that was chopped down to 2 hours. Directed by Marek Brodzki, who has worked with Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List, the film was poorly received by critics and fans alike. The film was eventually released as the 13-episode intended series but although more coherent than its predecessor, the series was much maligned and criticised for changes to its source materiel.
Since Project Cd Red released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt earlier this year, the game has already garnered much praise including talk for game of the year amongst gaming sites. With a beloved series such as The Witcher on its hands, it will be interesting to see how the adaptation will handle fan expectations and film-goers pre-conceived apprehensions when it comes to game adaptations.
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