The Year of Michelle Yeoh Continues in The Witcher: Blood Origin

Even if The Witcher hadn’t been a bona fide hit, the prequel sequence Blood Origin would have had us watching the minute it introduced Everything Everywhere All at Once star Michelle Yeoh was solid as a lead. And with this new have a look at Netflix’s Blood Origin miniseries, we’re much more all in… as a result of it’s frickin’ Michelle Yeoh.

Summoning energy, fantastical landscapes, and magic, this teaser trailer focuses on Yeoh because the elf Scían, whose journey begins on the hilt of a sword:

The official abstract: “Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin tells a story lost to time—one of seven outcasts who unite against an unstoppable power that took everything from them. Their blood quest giving rise to a prototype Witcher in a conflict that brings about the ‘conjunction of the spheres,’ when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.”

The ensemble solid consists of Laurence O’Fuarain (Fjall), Sophia Brown (Éile), Michelle Yeoh (Scían), Mirren Mack (Merwyn), Lenny Henry (Balor), Jacob Collins Levy (Eredin), Lizzie Annis (Zacaré), Huw Novelli (Callan “Brother Death”), Francesca Mills (Meldof), Amy Murray (Fenrik), Nathaniel Curtis (Brían), Zach Wyatt (Syndril), Dylan Moran (Uthrok One-Nut), and Joey Batey (Jaskier).

You’ll word that “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher” bard Jaskier will seem within the present, regardless of current a full 1,200 years after the Conjunction of the Spheres. Our guess is that he sings the story to a crowd, presumably as a framing gadget for the sequence, however we’ll discover out for certain when The Witcher: Blood Origin drops on Netflix December 25.

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