The Witcher Film Now In Production, Picks Up Hollywood Partners

Have you been enjoying The Witcher games and really wishing your non video game friends would get into it with you? That is about to get much easier.

Production on The Witcher movie is now moving forward, with Platige Films gaining an official partner in the Sean Daniel Company. SDC is known best for their work on The Mummy films. Word spread discreetly on a Witcher film last year when Platige’s creative director, Tomasz Baginski, revealed he was working on it in an interview. This seems to be the first time we are getting a formal English press release on the film.

The movie will be based on two short stories from The Last Wish, namely, The Witcher and Lesser Evil, and is intended to be an introduction to the Witcher universe. Of course, the Andrzej Sapkowski novels all this other media come from have become international bestsellers in their own right, often compared to Game of Thrones.

We already know Tomasz will be director on the film. Also tapped as screenwriter is Thania St John, a veteran of the small screen. Among her screenwriting and producing credits are the original 21 Jump Street, Life Goes On, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roswell, Wild Card, Huff, Eureka, Drop Dead Diva, and Unnatural History.

Of course, Platige itself has worked closely with CD Projekt RED on cinematics for the three Witcher games as well as those of Cyberpunk 2077, and Tomasz received an Oscar nomination for his short The Cathedral.

The Witcher movie will be coming in 2017. It should be interesting to see who Platige and SDC are casting in the lead role. Who would you like to play Geralt on the big screen? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.