The creators of ‘The Witcher’ deny that Henry Cavill’s departure affects the series

The last few weeks have been full of controversy around Henry Cavill, because on the one hand his return as Superman has been confirmed, but after a few days Netflix has announced his replacement of ‘The Witcher’ with that of Liam Hemsworth. Rumors began to surface that the company didn’t want to abide by the original story, and now the creators are coming out to deny the information.

In social networks, Lauren Hissrich and many of the authors of ‘The witcher’ they denied the rumors which teased the original story of Andrzej Sapkowsk’s CD Projekt Red books and video games. The showrunner of the Netflix series also agreed to an interview for Tech Radar to clarify everything that had been said about Henry Cavill’s exit.

The creator of ‘The witcher’ He doesn’t think Henry Cavill’s departure will affect the series, and called on fans to show their support for Liam Hemsworth, who will keep the role of Geralt de Rivia: “We know that Cavill’s departure is very important news. There have been a lot of rumours, and we understand fans go there, but what we ask is that you watch Season 3 so we can continue. Also, it’s time for ‘Blood Origin’, it’s their time to shine.

Rumors that the creators of ‘The witcher’ they didn’t want to respect the original story, was born after Beau de Mayo, one of the writers of the Netflix series, announced his departure, claiming that the group who had heard the writing team mock the story on which the series is based. Which led to the belief that the platform had no interest in respecting Geralt’s legacy.

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Netflix wants to regain support for ‘The Witcher’

With an active campaign by fans to bring back Henry Cavill in the role of Geralt, now the writing team of “The Witcher”, led by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Matt D’Ambrosio and Troy Dangerfield, have used their social networks to declare himself a fan of novels and video games, trying to recover the love and support of followers for the third season of the series.

As expected, some netizens did not welcome the response of Hissrich and the authors of “The Witcher”, who filled the initiative of the creators of the fantasy series with responses. By the way, one of them called Beau de Mayo a “liar” and accused him of changing his version of what he was really thinking: “Some idiot you worked with made up a bunch of lies for your fans and covered up that he got fired for being an idiot and now that’s the narrative.”

The writer said it was “very frustrating to see your hard work stained by those lies,” after seeing the massive negative response to Henry Cavill’s departure, to a story they haven’t seen anything yet. At the moment, it is known that ‘The Witcher 3’ will be inspired by ‘Time of Contempt’, the second book of the saga, and for which there is still no release date.