The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf Trailer: Every Monster Has a Price

Before Geralt’s grunts, there was Vesemir’s smirk. Netflix has launched the primary trailer for The Witcher prequel anime, Nightmare of the Wolf, which sees a younger Vesemir (Theo James, Castlevania and Divergent collection) monitoring down a witch—because the tide begins to show in opposition to him and his fellow monster hunters.

The animated collection, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, tells the origin story of Vesemir, who will likely be performed by Kim Bodnia in season two of The Witcher however is being voiced by James on this prequel. It’s all a few good-looking, rogueish, and fairly bearded monster hunter who escaped a lifetime of poverty with the assistance of the mysterious Deglan (The Hobbit and Castlevania’s Graham McTavish), who claimed him by way of the Law of Surprise. We see him taking contracts for numerous monsters, slashing and slaying because the day is lengthy. But every thing adjustments when he comes throughout a contract for a witch named Tetra (Sherlock’s Lara Pulver).

Here’s the synopsis: “The world of The Witcher expands in this anime origin story: Before Geralt, there was his mentor Vesemir — a swashbuckling young witcher who escaped a life of poverty to slay monsters for coin. But when a strange new monster begins terrorizing a politically fraught kingdom, Vesemir finds himself on a frightening adventure that forces him to confront the demons of his past.”

Nightmare of the Wolf—which additionally stars Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) as Lady Zerbst—is run by The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Beau DeMayo, together with co-executive producer Kwang Il Han and the famed Korean animation studio, Studio Mir. This is the primary of two at the moment deliberate prequels for The Witcher—the opposite being a live-action restricted collection referred to as The Witcher: Blood Origin, which is concerning the Continent’s first Witcher. The live-action Blood Origin is at the moment readying manufacturing, and no anticipated launch date has been introduced. The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf debuts on Netflix on August 23, and season two of The Witcher arrives on December 17. And sure, there’s a bathtub within the animated collection.

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