TheWitcherNetflix boss LHissrich on what sets the show apart from GameOfThrones and the key change she made to Henry Cavill's Geralt on set
Based on the books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, “The Witcher” begins with Geralt of Rivia thrashing around in a swamp with a fearsome, spidery beast. The violent fight ends with him ramming a sword through its open mouth and emerging from the waters like some kind of demi-god. The comparisons with Daenerys emerging from the flames in “” — and the HBO series in general — are being made left and right, and they are well-founded. “Game of Thrones” co-showrunners David Benioff and D.B.
In fact, Hissrich says she learned a lot from watching “Game of Thrones” and the polarizing fan reactions to its eight groundbreaking seasons. However, there were plenty of instances where Schmidt Hissrich chose or was forced into making adjustments for the small-screen adaptation. The most obvious examples of changes deal with the characters of Yennefer of Vengerberg and Princess Ciri . Both are present in the books, but Hissrich felt the series needed an extra injection of female power, so she and the writers scoured “every little indication, every last sentence” for scraps with which to build their backstory.
In the first episode, Ciri’s home kingdom of Calanthe is ransacked, her father is killed in battle, and her mother throws herself from the keep’s tallest tower. Three episodes later, Geralt and his goofy companion Jaskier arrive at the castle for a banquet several years prior to the attack. Hissrich says the decision to kick things off in media res and then slowly reconstruct events was made partly in order to deepen Ciri’s character.
“At first, Henry showed up and said all the lines he was supposed to say, and we realized as we started editing the episode that we didn’t actually need all of this,” she says. “We all slapped our foreheads and realized at the same time that unlike the video games, unlike the books, we can count on the actual actors, who don’t have to speak all the time, who can make a certain facial expression or grunt. Geralt’s a big grunter, to communicate something without words.
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