Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Prequel Casts Jodie Turner-Smith in Lead Role
Jodie Turner-Smith will play the lead role in The Witcher: Blood Origin. The six-part limited series is a prequel to the Netflix series, The Witcher.
Set 1,200 years before The Witcher, The Witcher: Blood Origin will feature Turner-Smith as the warrior Éile. The show will center around the character as she leaves the Queen’s court to be a roaming musician, but an event forces Éile (Turner-Smith) to return to her warrior roots. Additionally, the show will reveal the creation of the prototype Witcher and how the worlds of elves, men, and monsters come together.
They saying Jodie Turner-Smith is gonna be in the witcher in a prequel series ohmygodddddd this is about to amazinggggg
— Orangesunflower02 (@Orangesunflowe3) January 25, 2021
I woke up to news that Jodie Turner-Smith is going to be in ‘The Witcher’ prequel and it knocked me out again. Please, I can’t handle all the awesomeness. pic.twitter.com/wouvPNSK8G
— ferdosa (she/her) (@atomicwick) January 25, 2021
The Witcher: Blood Night, along with the other The Witcher television, film, and video game properties, is based on the book series of the same name by Polish author, Andrzej Sapkowski.
After the success of The Witcher, Netflix ordered two additional properties based on the original intellectual property – The Witcher: Blood Origin and The Witcher: Nightmare of The Wolf. The latter will be an animated film detailing the origin story of a character from the series, Vesemir. The film is expected to drop later this year.
Turner-Smith recently starred in Lena Waithe’s Queen and Slim and will star in the films After Yang and Without Remorse later this year.
Declan de Barra, Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, Jason Brown, Sean Daniel, Tomek Baginski, and Jarek Sawko will executive produce the show. Additionally, de Barra will serve as the show’s showrunner with Sapkowski acting as a creative consultant. While no release date has been announced yet, you can stay up to date with the new series by following Netflix on Twitter.
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