The showrunner of the series, Lauren S. Hissrich, confirms that they picked up an important aspect of the Projekt RED CD titles.
The Witcher series is not based on video games developed by CD Projekt RED, but takes the original novels written by Andrzej Sapkowski to color their stories. That does not mean that the creators of fiction have not taken references from video games. This is recognized by Lauren S. Hissrich, showrunner of the series, in an interview with Writer Experience. Although the creative states that she is not a player, she has seen the title of the Poles in motion, at which time she decided to take one of her main characteristics.
"I'm not a player, but when I started with the project, I ran into a friend of mine, Matt Owens, who is an inveterate player, and basically I insisted that he let me play," said Hissrich. He says he saw him play and drink some beer and noticed the visual part of the world. "What I will say is that that is probably that was the biggest element I took from the video game." The idea was to translate a fantasy that was not excessively dark, but kept the color. In addition, they also introduced small Easter eggs from video games.
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“Usually, people think that fantasy is really dirty, sandy and horrible, that everything is dark. And the truth is that The Witcher has a lot of color and life, a lot of everything. That's something I saw in the game, I observed that the world could be beautiful. ” According to Hissrich, even in the real-life tragedy, "the sun rises," even when war knocks on the doors. “I think there are little Easter eggs in the series that are there to tell the players that we see them, that we know they are there. We know you love The Witcher not only for books. ”
Jaskier is no longer a womanizer
One difference with respect to books and video games is that the bard Jaskier has abandoned his more womanizing side. That decision was conscious and was made because they did not want the character not to take advantage of innocent women. "We did not want to be interpreted as someone who is snooping around and trying to take advantage of innocent women," said the showrunner. "The solution was not to surround him with a bunch of innocent women who were waiting for them to take advantage of them."
The Witcher is available on Netflix since last December. Although season 2 will be delayed until 2021, the same creative team prepares an anime movie, The Night of the Wolf, which will star a young Vesemir, according to the official synopsis.
Source | Writter Experience (via ComicBook)
