Why it might be a surprise hit of 2017: >peaking franchise with a lot of great characters and plot >1/10th of the bloated Warcraft budget >SFX made by director's company (so pretty much for free) >talented director with nothing to lose behind the camera >decline of the capeshit -> renaissance of fantasy cinema
Problems: >will it be released worldwide? If yes, China is going to pretty much bankroll the sequel, if no, there might never be another Witcher movie >directorial debut >The Sean Daniel Company and Thania St. John (though hopefully it's still Platige Image doing most of the ground work) >PI CGI can look pretty artificial at times, maybe they got better
I know, we know almost nothing about it, but I believe it's going to be great.
>Year 2016 of the lord >Getting hyped for game adaptation movies
How cute and innocent
Alexander White
book adaptation*
Bentley Parker
The game was amazing. No way the movie lives up to it
Tyler Fisher
Same to be honest
Logan Brown
Books were even better
Wyatt Morgan
A key part of the Witcher series is world building. Normies could give a fuck about world building and a movie wouldn't have the time for it anyway, so it's going to be shit.
Parker Cruz
Baginski grew up on Witcher novels and he said that while the games are great there's no comparison for him. That's why CDPR doesn't want him to use the name 'Witcher' as a title.
Colton Watson
>could give a fuck
Asher Mitchell
There were plenty of 10/10 book adaptations, and none 10/10 game adaptation. That's the difference. > movie wouldn't have the time for it That's why we need a series.
Michael Diaz
Who is Sup Forums's pick for Geralt? Im definitely going with Brendan Fraser.
Gavin Thomas
Pretty much. HBO should do it or one of the other cable channels.
Point is there needs to be plenty of violence and fucking.
Jack Richardson
I didn't even know they were making a movie, just finished the last expansion today.
T'was fun. Hearts of Stone had the best writing/plot/characters in the game in my opinion.
Wyatt Clark
I thought the characters were a bit forgettable besides regis. But yeah the plot was probly the best out of the 3 main quest lines
Benjamin Sanders
>needs to be plenty of violence and fucking There wasn't that much(like in GoT) of sex tho
Isaac Bailey
>China Is the Witcher series even popular in China? And aren't movies with ghosts and shiet haram/banned?
Asher Gonzalez
>garbage fantasy shit
fuck off Sup Forums
David Miller
>Hearts of Stone had the best writing/plot/characters in the game in my opinion. Agreed.
Bentley Campbell
Why did you even bother to post?
Jeremiah Edwards
oh please.
Aiden Wilson
Hearts of Stone was fantastic, 10/10 witchering. If the expansions came in the reverse order (B&W first except the epilogue, then HoS with the epilogue) it would be perfect. Still as it is, Witcher 3 is pretty much one of the greatest RPGs of all time, if not the greatest.
Thomas Morales
I meant more that they need to be open with it and not need to censor it like on some fantasy shows.
Literally the first thing that happens in the first book is some girl comes into his room and fucks him. That's how he's introduced.
Then after knowing her for a day he fucks Yennifer in front of an audience after defeating a warlock or something.
They really need to be able to be as adult with it as they want.
Henry Hill
They just had a movie with a fucking mermaid. The witchcraft excuse was just to fuck with SONY.
Alexander Flores
Because he forgot what his penis looked like since his stock swallowed it years ago and the only thing that can get him off it to try and piss people off over the internet.
because he is fat.
Jeremiah Edwards
Yeah, sure. I just hope it won't turn into some show for teenagers like GoT. >muh fuging >muh killing
Josiah Perez
>They really need to be able to be as adult with it as they want. Well, in the old polish movie they were NSFW
Gabriel Lee
I admit I was a bit let down by Blood and Wine after HoS. Sure the visuals were fantastic and the fairytale mission looked amazing, but the plot and characters were pretty disappointing. Boss fights also weren't as good as Gravedigger or the wraith in the painting ones.
That whole mansion mission in HoS was so memorable. Really made me feel for Iris and at the end I couldn't even bring myself to let Olgierd die.
Nathan Gomez
The perfect recipe for Witcher tv show: 20% existential crisis 40% slavic soul 20% fugging 20% killing
Christopher Ramirez
Yeah I saw some clips of that series.
Gonna have to sit down and watch it all someday.
Hunter Cooper
I Agree nononononononononono, don't do it m8, don't you ever think about doing that.
Adam Miller
Agreed This is the perfect recipe
Levi Barnes
Uhh... Just make sure you have a lot of alcohol at your disposal.
Jaxon Cook
Haha
Well I've read all but the last 2 books (the one that just came out and the last one which hasn't been translated yet) and played the games so I guess I'd like to experience everything just for the sake of it.
I couldn't finish any of the witcher games. they stories, setting and characters are great and interesting but the combat is so shit, grindy and boring, it feels like a chore.
Cooper Hall
They finally got the combat system right in 3rd one I think.
Levi Brown
The books were pretty unmemorable as far as fantasy goes. The games were garbage as well, except for 3.
People need to stop trying to claim that the entire series/universe is some godly thing because of 1 good game.
Carter Howard
How about you stop being a fat fuck, eh fatty?
Jayden Long
It's not for you
Robert Sanchez
HoS is fucking excellent but B&W is worth it for Beauclair alone.
>tfw walking from the top of the palace to the bottom of the docks
Lincoln Parker
lol i might watch if tomb raider reboot turns out ok, maybe vidyakino will happen
Zachary Price
Books were huge outside the anglosphere even before the games happened.
Charles Butler
>Not going in the reverse direction I thought novigrad wouldn't be topped for years as the greatest video game city but bam just one year later based poles did it
Leo Sanders
Aren't they a big deal in Central Europe?
Matthew Wood
I like Novigrad and Beauclair, but best vidya city is Yharnam
Jacob Long
Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, but also Germany, France, Spain, Portugal. It's weird but a decade before it was translated to English it was already available in most european languages.
Easton Rivera
I want Clancy Brown as Vesemir And Bruce Campbell as Dandelion
Chase Ward
Yharnam is a different beast, but yeah its equally good but i prefer my cities with the busy crowded streets and a good dose of comfy; the kind of place i wouldnt mind taking a vacation to.
Logan Butler
Dude, Yharnam is the best health resort in the world. It's also great for sightseeing.
Isaiah Hall
This guy was great as Geralt. Too bad that pretty much everything else around him was terrible.
Nathaniel Lewis
Is it going to be in Polish?
Cooper Miller
Would be better in long-form, as an HBO series or something.
Isaac Long
>The film will be an introduction to the Witcher’s world and is planned to be the beginning of a series. Thania St. John, an experienced Hollywood scriptwriter, author of such television productions as ‘Grimm’, ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’, is working on the script as well as on its film and television continuation.
But they'll probably need some sort of main antagonist so it'll be shit cause that's always the worst part about the witcher games
Adam Collins
I wouldn't mind another Vilgefortz.
William Ward
>But they'll probably need some sort of main antagonist so it'll be shit cause that's always the worst part about the witcher games It's based on two short stories with no big villain.
Carter Lopez
>he thinks a video game movie could be a "surprise hit"
lol OP is a naive moron
Samuel Rogers
Why should I care about the Witcher? The story isn't really that good Fuck every game is good entirely because of the world and people in it, the main story has always been shit
Nathan Wright
Fuck me I wish I could get the game working. 760 GTX Nvidia card and 16GB of ram and my frames are so bad on the lowest settings the game is unplayable, people still going around saying it's the greatest RPG ever
Jaxson Perry
But the story is shit.
"Oh, let's take a bunch of classic fairytales, slap a subversion on them and call it a day".
Fuck the plagiarist.
Where's my White Wolf? Where's that Elric adaptation Universal has been sitting on for the past twenty years?
Brody Peterson
Just buy PS4 :^)
Jackson Bell
edgyfist go home
Juan Roberts
...
John Bennett
You've never read any of the books.
Adrian Murphy
>will it be released worldwide? If yes, China is going to pretty much bankroll the sequel, if no, there might never be another Witcher movie >China >allowing a movie that will potentially have ghosts in it about that
Aaron Butler
>implying problem were ghosts and not general Sony incompetence
problem is that commies allow to release only limited number of western movies and those places are occupied by big Hollywood production
Julian Kelly
They just released a movie about mermaid. The issue was never ghosts.
Noah Garcia
you're full of shit. Geralt is introduced by killing some peasants in a bar just to get attention from some higher ups because he wants to get in touch with Foltest so he can solve his daughter's curse. After he was injured curing Foltest's daughter he was brought to a "hospital" where a "maid" had sex with him and he was dreaming of Yennefer the whole time and felt guilty afterwards.
Landon Hill
>The books were pretty unmemorable as far as fantasy goes fake bookfag confirmed. They are praised for their unique take on fantasy.
Matthew Ramirez
and he fucks Yennefer after binding his fate to hers forever just to save her from the djinn and they were alone.
Aaron Brooks
On a serious note, who the fuck are they going to cast as Geralt? Din Beasil? Jason Stratham? I honestly don't think anyone could pull off a decent Geralt
Jonathan Martin
Kingkiller Chronicles > Bitcher > GoT
Thomas Cooper
This.
Carson Long
what is up with this? Neither the Witcher books/games or asoiaf contain a lot of nudity or sex. Is it just because of GoT?
Charles Bell
Viggo Mortensen
Mason Torres
M A D S M I K K E L S E N
Brandon Collins
To be honest, Witcher worldbuilding is pretty shit. It doesn't make sense the the almost all-powerful sorceresses and mages simply dont enslave normal people and rule supreme
Carter Morris
He's a manlet?
Nolan Moore
I'd honestly rather them go with an unknown. At least an American unknown. I think that'd be the best option. No expectations.
Kevin Davis
Too old. If they get it right, there is going to be a tv series or a lot of movies coming up. Right now Mads is perfect, but ten years down the line?
1) They have limitations 2) They constantly try to assume control 3) They fight within themselves
Nathaniel Martinez
>witcher >good characters >good story
Andrew Jenkins
they can, among others teleport mind control cause explosins the size of a cruise missile
They would be even powerful in a modern day world. Realistically speaking, there is not much a medieval society could do against them
Leo Allen
>only knows witcher from the prologue to w2 when he ragequit
Nolan Davis
they aren't all-powerful, though. If a sorcerer would try to become king, he probably wouldn't have the people behind him and someone could just kill him in his sleep or chain him up dimeritium which is pretty much their kryptonite. There are of course also other people like witchers that could take out a sorcerer in a fight.
Jackson Moore
>If a sorcerer would try to become king, he probably wouldn't have the people behind him and someone could just kill him in his sleep or chain him up dimeritium which is pretty much their kryptonite. same problem a normal king would have. Only that he doesnt have magic superpowers.
And I mean, a single mage can destroy an entire human army or burn down a city, it doesn't really makes sense to show how they are persecuted like jews
Jose Cox
those are all very limited though and they need to gather up energy to do them. Mind control is also not very subtle.
Christopher Nguyen
>666 Nice trips. Anyway: >teleport in the books it's last resort as teleports malfunction a lot >mind control temporary and could be deflected or blocked >cause explosins and afterwards they're drained
Let me remind you that Yennefer, one of the most powerfull sorceressess in the witcher uni almost died using all of her power trying to heal Geralt.
Cameron Moore
they are infertile. it would create power struggles every time one died.
Asher Rogers
All of this talk about magic kings. Imagine witcher king, i.e. Lambert conquering some small state.
Ethan Baker
they could create a mage theocracy. Like Vatikan or something.
>in the books it's last resort as teleports malfunction a lot well i dunno, in the games they teleport pretty casually. And while their other powers have limits, they would still be incredibly useful even today, not to speak of a medieval world.
I am just saying, if a bunch of mages got together and said "ok humans, we are taking over now", there wouldnt be much the normal humans could do to stop them
Jayden Carter
>a single mage can destroy an entire human army or burn down a city this is just bad writing in Witcher 2 but I guess a mage could create a small fire to burn down a city but so could pretty much anyone if they are lucky
Ryder Baker
>in the games That's your problem. Geralt's 'I hate portals' is a big meme in games, but in the books it's a real concern as it can fuck your shit up, cut you in half, hell, even Ciri got dropped from one like 50ft in the air. Mages and sorceressess hate each other much more than they hate normal people. You know, delusions of grandeur. And they try to control the world from behind the courtain.
Nathan Cooper
triss in witcher 3 as well but the games play up everyones powers except monsters and the like
Logan Myers
isn't it explained in the books that he once saw a guy get cut in half by a teleport?