By Brittany Spurlin | Source tilecache.org
1/25/2021

Toss a coin to your Witcher producers.

Netflix’s The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel series to the streamer’s 2019 hit The Witcher, has found its lead in British star Jodie Turner-Smith. Turner-Smith will play Eile, an elite elven warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess who has left her clan to follow her heart as a nomadic musician. Keeping with the series’ theme of destiny, a grand reckoning on the Continent forces Eile to return to the way of the blade in her quest for vengeance and redemption.

Turner-Smith is best known for her role as Queen in the 2019 film Queen & Slim, as well as Netflix’s Nightflyers, TNT’s The Last Ship and HBO’s True Blood. Upcoming roles for Turner-Smith include A24’s After Yang and Amazon’s Without Remorse.

Blood Origin is set approximately 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher. The six-episode limited series will explore a “story lost to time,” including the creation of the first Witcher and the events that led to the conjunction of the spheres.

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, showrunner on The Witcher, is confirmed as an executive producer of Blood Origin along with Declan de Barra. Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish author of the short stories The Witcher is based on, will serve as a creative consultant.

There is no set release date for Blood Origin yet, but the writers room began on Sept. 17 and wrapped Dec. 18. As fans of The Witcher await more casting news and for production to start, the story is set in stone.

Photo courtesy of Netflix/Jodie Turner-Smith

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