The Witcher Season 3 Character Posters; Trailer Drops This Thursday

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Returning to Netflix on June 29th, Netflix released character posters for The Witcher Season 3 – with an official trailer set for Thursday.

With only a little more than three weeks to go until Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of The Witcher returns to our screens for the first of its two-volume third season, it looks like fans have two days to look forward to this week – and that first day is today. What follows are the character profile key art posters for Henry Cavill‘s Geralt, Anya Chalotra‘s Yennefer, Freya Allan‘s Ciri, and Joey Batey‘s Jaskier. Pretty cool, right? But the best part is that the posters were released to coincide with the news that the official trailer for Cavill’s final run as Geralt will be hitting on Thursday.

With Volume 1 of the third season (and Cavill’s final) set to hit screens on June 29th (and Volume 2 set for July 27th), here’s a look back  at an official teaser trailer for Netflix’s The Witcher (followed by some previous thoughts from series creator & showrunner Lauren Hissrich regarding what’s to come):

Hissrich explained to EW that even though the upcoming season wasn’t written with Cavill’s departure in mind, the actor will see a “heroic sendoff” during his final run. In addition, Hissrich drops a tease about how this season impacts Geralt in such a way that it sets up a “new mission” for him in the fourth season. “Henry [Cavill] has given so much to the show, and so we want to honor that appropriately,” Hissrich explained. “What is so interesting is that season 3, to me, is the closest thing that we’ve done as a one-to-one adaptation of the books,” she added, referring to the season’s partial adaptation of Time of Contempt. “Obviously, we can’t do every page, but ‘Time of Contempt’ gave us so many big action events, plot points, defining character moments, huge reveals of a big bad. There’s so much to do that we were able to stick really, really closely with the books.”

And that means a number of opportunities for Cavill’s Geralt to further grow as a character while setting up what’s to come in the Hemsworth-starring fourth season. “Geralt’s big turn is about giving up neutrality and doing anything that he has to do to get to Ciri. And to me, it’s the most heroic sendoff that we could have, even though it wasn’t written to be that. Geralt has a new mission in mind when we come back to him in season 4. He’s a slightly different Geralt than we expected. Now, by the way, that’s an understatement,” Hissrich added.

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