‘The Witcher’ prequel is reportedly in hassle, producers need fewer episodes and extra Jaskier

When doubtful, all the time depend on the best bard the Continent has ever seen to get you out of hassle. Based on a brand new report, The Witcher: Blood Origin is being minimize all the way down to 4 episodes as an alternative of the preliminary six, and the producers need to have extra of Jaskier because the narrator within the collection.

The information comes courtesy of Redanian Intelligence (per GamesRadar), a dependable outlet devoted to protecting information of Andrzej Sapkowski’s world. According to them, the producers have determined to chop two entire episodes’ value of footage from the collection, which suggests we’ll now have 4 episodes to sit up for within the prequel collection.

What’s extra, there’s going to be extra concentrate on Joey Batey’s Jaskier because the narrator of the story. There aren’t any particulars moreover these tough adjustments, however the powers that be presumably weren’t glad with the uncooked footage they’d shot of the deliberate six episodes, therefore why they determined to tie extra into the primary collection and play it secure.

As you may think about, some followers are dismayed, whereas others don’t actually know what to make of this report.

But hey, if Blood Origin goes to be a sizzling mess, not less than we’ll have some comfort within the type of Jaskier. The extra Jaskier the higher. Toss a coin to your favourite bard.

Announced in 2020 as a part of Netflix’s try at increasing the favored world of The Witcher saga, Blood Origin is meant to get into the cataclysmic occasion generally known as the Conjunction of the Spheres, greater than a millennium earlier than the story of Geralt. That’s when monsters of all shapes and types entered the world, necessitating the existence of the primary technology of monster-hunters known as Witchers. The spinoff is not going to solely depict the creation of the primary monster-hunters, but in addition take care of the downfall of Elven civilization because the people slowly populate the Continent and develop in numbers.

As of but, the streaming juggernaut hasn’t introduced a release date for Blood Origin, aside from confirming that it’ll come out someday in late 2022.