Having locked down its lead in Henry Cavill, Netflix series The Witcher has now announced the cast who will be joining him. The likes of MyAnna Buring, Jodhi May, Freya Allan and Anya Chalotra are now aboard.
Allan and Chalotra are leading the pack, playing Ciri, Princess of Cintra and Yennefer respectively. May is on as Queen Calanthe, while Fortitude's Björn Hlynur Haraldsson will be her husband, a knight known as Eist. Adam Levy's playing the druid Mousesack, while Buring will be Tissaia, leader of the magical academy at Aretuza, where Yennefer studies. She'll be alongside Fringilla (Mimi Ndiweni) and Sabrina (Therica Wilson-Read), while Millie Brady is outcast Princess Renfri.
Though it will draw from the video games, the series – with executive producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich in charge – will be based primarily from the root source material, a series of books written by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. An epic tale of fate and family, the story finds Geralt of Rivia (Cavill), a solitary monster hunter, struggling to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.
Eight episodes will comprise the first season, but there's no word on a date for it to hit the streaming service.
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