The Witcher Netflix Series Casts Henry Cavill of Superman Fame as Geralt

tbh i just don't know why they keep bothering with turning games to movies and shows.

has it ever worked out great?

shows may be better since they can pace thing better and go more in depth but still.

Should have been Mads Mikkelsen. Henry Cavill's too pretty boy for this role.

you know Henry Cavill is a pretty good actor so i think he can do the part, it's not his fault the DC are as well written and directed as a school play

with someone other than Snyder at the helm his Superman could have been amazing

still now Snyder is gone there is some hope IF DC decide to carry on with the DCEU that is

Urgh. That's some terrible casting right there.

I'll allow it.

Called this a little while ago.

HC was very positive when the subject came up in one of the Mission Impossible interviews. Deep game knowledge and had been reading the books - sounded a lot like prep/petitioning!

@jdv95 in fairness, most game to film adaptations are of the shallowest source material and farmed out to crummy directors with crummy budgets.

@FullbringIchigo the issues with the DCEU films are WB and DC exec's. MoS is a good film - but it needed a Superman follow up to bring the character up to being Superman. Instead, WB insisted on milking the Batman teat some more rather than let Snyder build the world properly.

Anyway - I like Cavill - he can put in a strong performance and any 'looks wrong' issues can be handled with hair and make up.

@KALofKRYPTON i don't know if it was milking Batman or just trying to skip to where Marvel is to be honest

but your right he could have done with a second stand alone film first

No way this actually happened now I'm hyped for the series!
Anyone that watched MI Fallout knows that Cavill is a badass and will pull this off

@AFCC yeah he was great in that film, i even thought he could pull off Bond after that

of course with the current climate in films that wont happen and it will probably be Idris Elba but he would be good too, although he is getting on a bit so i doubt he could do that many

@FullbringIchigo It's the same thing to the same effect. They wanted to skip to the avengers money stage. No property makes them more money than Batman. It's a real shame they wouldn't wait.

Look at the DC streaming service - so ravenous are they for their own streaming service, it wont even launch with the show that was supposed to launch it!

Elba is terrible choice for Bond (and probably wont do it). They missed their chance to use Colin Salmon as Bond if they wanted to go black. If they really feel they must (which is a nonsense), and even if they don't - cast someone late 20s/early 30s at least. Leather puppet Daniel Craig looks as sadly ridiculous as the late, great Roger Moore did in A View To A Kill.

@AFCC Yeah, Cavill was definitely a bad ass in the new Mission Impossible movie! I'd also say he did an incredible job as Superman, so...I'm definitely pumped for this one now!

@KALofKRYPTON you know i have kind of given up on the DC films and shows after that Titans trailer, they obviously have no idea what they are doing

as for new Bonds well all they have to do is add a scene at the end of the next film where the current Bond passes the name and number onto a new agent, that way anyone can play him and they don't have to either reboot again or pretend it's the same character like they used to (hey that could even mean they could do a Doctor Who type team up film in the future if they wanted too)

@nessisonett Mads should play the evil villain, regardless of what the game/film is

@FullbringIchigo Shazam will be great. I do like them for the most part - just too many greedy suits ruining things. MoS is good. BvS is alright, the extended version far superior than the theatrical. It all just needs more Superman!

@KALofKRYPTON well who knows what they are doing, Affleck might be out as Batman, they are doing a Joker movie that has nothing to do with the other films and they have about 4 different TV continuities

it's like they are just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks

on a side note some people think Keaton should come back as Batman in the DCEU, although that might make all those old Batman films canon to it and i don't think i can deal with this again

I think I read somewhere that he was asking for the job, he's a keen gamer and finished Witcher 3 several times. So should be good for the source material.
My wife fancies him too so should be able to watch it without complaints.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/supermans-henry-cavill-wants-to-play-geralt-in-netflixs-the-witcher-series

@jdv95 they keep trying because it just takes one to have the impact that XMen had for Comic films for them to be the new thing

So, not a cartoon then? I guess Castelvania had me thinking this would be a cartoon, in which case his "pretty boy looks" wouldn't matter.

So is this going for sex and violence serious Game of Thrones or Hercules and Xena parody? Not sure I'd watch a comedy but I'm a big LotR fan so I'd settle for that serious PG-13 rated middle ground.

@jdv95 To be fair, the Witcher series was a set of novels before it was ever a game, so it should be more of a book being turned into a series.

Least Henry is branching out from the Superman role and he won't be stuck in that role for his career

@jdv95 The Witcher games draw inspiration from the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski.

I've heard that this series is going to be a retelling of the books which are fantastic. Can't wait.

@AhabSpampurse

He is actually a pretty good actor, don't blame him for superman which has made people think.hes a awful actor, as the blame lies with Zack Snyder and Warner brothers not him.

Let's get ScarJo to be Yen

@suikoden that's true, he's been a great Superman in some mediocre DC movies. Immortals was fantastic.
He's definitely not my first choice, but he'll be fine. Would of gone for Idris Elba, but internet fanboys would of gotten mad about skin pigmentation mutation blablabla

I'm with it. Cavill is a good actor imo and he has stated that he really likes the games and books. Might not have been my first choice, but I think he'll make for a good Geralt.

WHY DID THAT DEMON SAY MARTHA? WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!

I'm excited for this... Cavill has acting chops (and one amazing mustache) ^^^

@suikoden I have no beef with his acting chops, I think he's been perfectly fine in pretty much all of his roles. I just can't imagine him as the grizzled character that Geralt is. IMO he's too young and too pretty.

Hmmm im surprised but i like Henry Cavill. I'll keep a look out for this

@jdv95 to be honest who's forcing you to watch them?Plus it's a tv show not a movie

So much hate for this choice across the Internet. I reserve judgement. I’ve learned my lesson from Heath Leger as Joker.

All I care about is the casting for Triss and Yennifer and how they'll choose which to put Geralt with 🤔 #teamtriss

@jdv95

You do know it was a group of books long before the games, granted the game made it knowing to the masses , but already had a big following and this will be based on the books, and as others said castlevania was good

@FullbringIchigo That was Clooney!

Also, perhaps if they are planning on doing a wider spread of films perhaps based on the (once monikered) Elseworlds stories, Keaton could be a great idea for a Kingdom Come based film. In fact, KC would make an absolute belter of a movie! Sadly, you would need someone with Snyder's sensibilities to get it done right I think.

@KALofKRYPTON i know but it was the same continuity as the Keaton and Kilmer films, just a different actor

@FullbringIchigo It's pretty loose. As Schumaecher came on board they're totally different films each half of the quadrilogy. Michal Cough and Pat Hingle are the only continuous cast members, and even then - only Cough's character remaining largely unchanged over the 4 films.

@KALofKRYPTON true but they are like the Bond films (before Casino Royale rebooted of course), same character, same continuity but different actors like how George Lazenby's Bond married and it was referenced in a Timothy Dalton film

@FullbringIchigo The Bond series has long played the 'just go with us on this' game yeah; slight tonal shifts with casting changes etc - but much the same formula beyond the 60's cool, 70's fun, 80's grit, 90'/00's extravagance and the latter 00's/10's extra gritty grit.

Batman and Returns, Forever and & Robin just couldn't be more different takes in tone and intention really.

@KALofKRYPTON true but officially they are continuations of the first 2 even with the actor and tone change hence why it they all had Michael Gough as Alfred and Pat Hingle as Commissioner Gordon or why Chris O'Donnell was Robin in both the Kilmar and Clooney films

according to WB Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman and Robin are all one continuity