The production of the third season of The Witcher is now officially underway.
The hit fantasy drama, which kicked off its second season in December, is now back in production, as Netflix officially confirmed with an on-set photo showing stars Henry Cavill (Geralt), Anya Chalotra (Yennefer), and Freya Allan ( Ciri) enjoying a well-deserved break between shots in a very snowy place.
Our family is reunited again. #TheWitcher Season 3 is officially in production! pic.twitter.com/rlBl0j3lTAApril 14, 2022
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Along with announcing the revival of the series, Netflix also revealed the plot synopsis for The Witcher season 3. You can read it in full below:
As the continent's monarchs, wizards, and beasts vie to capture her, Geralt drives Ciri of Cintra into hiding, determined to protect his newly reunited family from those who threaten to destroy it. Charged with Ciri's magical training, Yennefer leads them to Aretuza's protected fortress, where she hopes to discover more of the girl's untapped powers. instead, they discover that they have landed on a battlefield of political corruption, black magic, and treachery. They must defend themselves, risk everything, or risk being lost forever.
The Witcher season 3 synopsisIt's no surprise that the show returns to production just four months after the start of the second season.
When TechRadar spoke to The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich when the second season was scheduled to premiere on Netflix, she revealed that the third season of the series was almost written and on its way to being refined.
Pressed for details on what we could expect from the third season, Hissrich revealed that creator Andrzej Sapkowski's second main novel in The Witcher saga, The Time of Contempt, will provide most of the material for the new series.
She said: "I'm really excited about how Season 3 is going. Because it's based on my favorite book in the series, which is The Time of Contempt. I feel like Seasons 1 and 2 set the stage for everything that's to come.
On top of that, Hissrich also revealed to Collider that a "big Blood of Elves story," the first novel in The Witcher saga, will be part of the third season story.
Will the third season of The Witcher be the last?
Good God, no. Netflix has big plans for The Witcher, with a prequel, The Witcher: Blood Origin, set to be released in 2022. Set 1200 years before Netflix's main series, Blood Origin will cover the creation of the first Witcher. The show will also follow the events leading up to and during the Conjunction of the Spheres, the cataclysm that results in multiple universes and their human, elven, and monstrous races colliding.
On top of that, a family anime series and a second anime film were announced in September 2021 to follow 2021's The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf.
Netflix has yet to renew The Witcher for a fourth season, but Hissrich is planning seven seasons and stars Henry Cavill and Freya Allen have firmly committed to staying the course.
You can expect to see a lot more of The Witcher in the years to come, and we'll keep you posted on the progress of season three here with our full guide.