Elven Michelle Yeoh would be the reward value opening from below the tree this yr.

Netflix has confirmed that The Witcher: Blood Origin—a prequel sequence concerning the calamity often known as the “Conjunction of the Spheres” that gave rise to the world of the Continent seen in Andrzej Sapkowski’s smash-hit fantasy world—will debut on Christmas Day this yr, simply in case you deliberate on doing something apart from sitting in entrance of a TV for a number of hours.

The sequence, starring Sophia Brown as Éile, an elven warrior turned nomadic musician, additionally options Laurence O’Fuarain as Fjall, and beloved Everything Everywhere All at Once (and 7 billion different issues) star Michelle Yeoh as Scian, a mystical swordmaster on the hunt for a robust lacking blade. The trio discover themselves thrust collectively because the Conjuction creates a world of Elves, males, and monsters—and sees the rise of a brand new form of warrior to guard such a world from its darkest shadow within the type of the mutated Witchers.

During the Blood Origin section of the occasion, Netflix revealed that Minnie Driver (Speechless, The Riches) has been added to the forged of the sequence. Driver will play a Seanchai, a shapeshifting collector of outdated lore who can hop between time durations and different worlds. She’ll additionally function the present’s narrator. “I’m pivotal in helping people understand where this origin story comes from,” she mentioned in Netflix’s Tudum weblog.

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The Witcher: Blood Origin begins on December 25.

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