The Witcher Netflix series will reportedly be adapted by the driving force behind Marvel's Daredevil and Defenders shows.

Writer and producer Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will, according to Variety, be the showrunner and executive producer for The Witcher. She co-wrote and co-executive produced Daredevil and Defenders.

The Witcher Netflix series was announced in May. It's a joint venture between Polish company Platige, which has been making cinematics for The Witcher games for years, and Netflix. It has nothing to do with game maker CD Projekt Red but Witcher author and creator Andrzej Sapkowski is involved as a consultant.

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What would The Witcher 1 prologue tutorial - where amnesiac Geralt is hauled in from the woods by his witcher pals and taken to the iconic castle Kaer Morhen - look like remade in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt? After all, Kaer Morhen and Geralt's pals all appear in The Witcher 3.

Well I'm glad you asked! Because one enterprising modder, erxv [this article previously and erroneously stated Daniel Hindes], has answered.

This Witcher 1 Prologue Remaster takes voiceovers, cinematics, and one of the notorious sex cards from The Witcher 1 and reapplies them to characters and scenarios made for The Witcher 3, copying as closely as possible the opening hour of The Witcher 1.

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Have you ever wondered what a Witcher musical would look like on stage at the theatre? Would Geralt sing and dance? With Roach? Would there be magic, monsters and romance?

Well wonder no more because it's actually happening, this November, in Gdynia, northern Poland, at the Teatr Muzyczny im. Danuty Baduszkowej. The show, called simply Wiedzmin (the original Polish title for Andrzej Sapkowski's book series) will occupy the main stage for four days in November, January, February, March and May.

It's a big production. The director's assistant, Paweł Bernaciak, told me there would be up to 51 people on stage, including actors, dancers, acrobats and even breakdancers, and with a full orchestra in the pit below the stage. Witcher characters Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer are all to feature in an adaptation of five short Witcher stories from the Last Wish and The Sword of Destiny books.

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