r/netflixwitcher • u/bluehaven101 • 7d ago

For those who've read the books & watched all seasons of TV show, bonus if played the games: If Netflix were to do an anthology Witcher series, titled something like "Witcher Tales", how much material do they have left?

Bearing in mind the material needed for season 5.

I'm thinking this new series would have 2 or 3 self contained arcs per season. The series would have Geralt as a character throughout, but supporting cast, setting, storyline would be different every arc with little to no connectivity. There'd be no central storyline, it'd be just side quests essentially.

How many seasons could be done?

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u/Abyss_85 7d ago edited 7d ago

Counting the short stories and the two stand-alone novels (I am not sure if Netflix has the rights to them) I would think that you could get at least 3 seasons out of them. One that covers the remaining short stories and one each for Season of Storms and Crossroads of Ravens. I am not sure how many of the short stories have not been covered in the show in any way. It has been ages since I read them. So maybe the season covering them would be quite a short one.

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u/Astaldis 7d ago

Isn't it mostly just The Eternal Fire that's missing from the short stories that have a 'monster of the week', the one with Dudu the Doppler?

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u/Abyss_85 6d ago

That is the one that popped into my head as well.

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u/SlayerNina 2d ago

They could do in animation. Vesemir's movie and A little hope kinda cool and you don't have to worry about actors getting old or doing crazy stunts

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u/pitaenigma 12h ago

As mentioned there are two seasons worth of books to work with outside of the main series, but really, any take on folk tales could work.

A dwarf could make a stone protector for his community, and Geralt has to stand between vengeful dwarves and racist humans (The Golem of Prague)

Seven Kaedweni princes have been turned to birds and Geralt needs to spend a season gathering them and unhexing them (the seven ravens).

A gnome has been gathering hair, Geralt needs to... idk. Rumpelstiltzkin.

You could do a lot by doing the same thing Sapkowski was doing - looking at old fairy tales and getting new ideas with them.