The Witcher season 3 has reached an end after two parts and eight episodes, but that doesn’t mean our heroes’ journey across The Continent is over. After violent coups, dangerous plots, secret portals, and plenty of fights, Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri are all separated, and who knows when they might get back together again.
Netflix is definitely bringing The Witcher back for season 4, and while we have a few ideas about what’s to come, including the series’ already infamous recasting, there are still quite a few questions left, including when it might come out.
Yes, there will be. Netflix’s most official statement on this has been casting Liam Hemsworth as Geralt next season, but that is enough to say for sure that a fourth season is being planned. This isn’t too much of a surprise, since The Witcher remains one of Netflix’s most popular series, though the two most recent seasons never reached the viewership heights of the first one.
The Witcher season 4 hasn’t even started filming yet, as far as we know, so it’s likely to be a pretty long wait between seasons — and as with every series or movie right now, the ongoing writers and actors strikes in Hollywood is likely to push any release date back even further. The Witcher also frequently goes quite a while between seasons. Season 1 was released in 2019, while season 2 didn’t come out until 2021, and season 3 just arrived this year. With all that in mind, it’s likely that we won’t see the show’s fourth season until sometime around 2025 at the earliest.
Liam Hemsworth will take over the role of Geralt from Henry Cavill in season 4. We’re still not sure how this swap will happen in the show, or how big Hemsworth-Geralt’s role will be in season 4, but we do know Cavill
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