Netflix Orders Limited Series ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin’

Netflix has announced The Witcher: Blood Origin, a limited series from “The Witcher” universe. “Blood Origin” will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to the Netflix series “The Witcher.” The logline: Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of “The Witcher,” “Blood Origin” will tell a story lost to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one. “The Witcher: Blood Origin” will follow the Elven civilization before its fall, and most importantly reveal the forgotten history of the very first Witcher.”

Declan de Barra will act as executive producer andshowrunner and Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as Executive producer. Andrzej Sapkowski will serve as creative consultant on the series. Jason Brown and Sean Daniel from Hivemind, and Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko from Platige Films will all serve as executive producers.

“As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” said Declan de Barra in a statement. “A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read ‘The Witcher’ books – What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans? I’ve always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization’s true story behind.”