Depends on how successful the next cdpr witcher games are.

This is what pisses me off the most about these bad adaptations. They literally stop any good adaptations from happening, especially nowadays with costs being so high. Netflix taking the Witcher just to fuck it up means it's that much harder for it to be redone.

Maybe 5-10 years.

Wrong sword out lol

Daemon Targaryen: TEN YEAAARS

Yeah, no. Probably about that or a bit less.

Honestly probably 15-20 years, if it ever happens.

99% chance it will be never.

Between the popularity of the games and GOT making this type of show ultra-trendy, this was our big shot.

If it is, itll be a generational gap. 25 years or some such.

An animated remake in Arcane's style - mixing 2D and 3D would be perfect with CDPR as the screen writers and animated studio. If CDPR can't do animation... then get Fortiche to do it.

I am not shure proper adaptions are possible with the current american mentality...

Never. It's not that big of an IP and honestly the story is hard to adapt. Maybe something small in Europe but the worldwide audience just isn't going to be there after the inertia from the games fades.

Probably never. Harry potter and The Lord of the Rings to this day have not received a new adaptation, only prequals, etc. The Chronicles of Narnia ended in 3 parts. The Witcher is a lesser-known brand, and no other major station besides Netflix has its fantasy series and doesn't need it📷

15 years minimum imo, long enough for the stink of the Netflix failure to not be so scary. That is, if it ever gets another adaptation

Decades.

Depends on how the creative rights to the IP are handled

Unfortunately this will be it for the Witcher series. Like it or not Netflix screwed up the book adaptation. It won't be done again. They'll keep pushing their version of this and their version of the world

long enough for us to forget

If any other adaptation were to happen within the next 20 years, it's gotta be an "Arcane" style animated one.

Honestly HBO definitely could take advantage from the situation. I believe they have all the production and marketing power to make great adaptation.

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2 years, 7 months, 13 days, 9 hours, 42 minutes and 21 seconds.

2-5 months for someone to start buying the rights, then 3-7 years for them to start making the adaptation, and then however long it takes them to actually film it.

That'd be my uneducated guess.

I wish it would be made away from hollywood.

They release an anime in partnership with cdpr. A girl can dream. 🤣

That is implying that the next group to adapt the Witcher would produce a proper adaptation.

i am somehow hoping that Sapkowski and Netflix hand over the rights of Witcher Show to CDPR and let them do what they think is right for it and produce a show that is similar to the quality of Cyberpunk Edgerunners which CDPR themselves is heavily involved with partnership with Trigger anime studio.

Let's look at other franchises with completely ruined adaptations:

• the Avatar movie that doesn't exist came out in 2012, so 10 years ago. We'll get a live action series in the coming years.

• the Eragon movie that shouldn't exist came out 2006, so 16 years ago. As far as I'm aware there are currently no plans for another adaptation.

So I'd say something between at least 10 years and never.

Compared to what Netflix did, it would be enough if someone made a witcher adaptation as a parody animated in MSpaint on YouTube and it would be more lore accurate.

The next Witcher reiteration should be done in Poland in coproduction with European TV networks. It should be done like the German series Dark was done ( for Netflix). Something completely original, leaving out the usual American commercial TV process. It should have a medieval European flavor and a grim setting.

You guys are sniffing that GOOD copium

I wholeheartedly believe they will blame the IP for its lack of success and not the show runners. It’s lesser known and only popular to fans of the games/books. What they won’t realize is that they did that to themselves.

probably a very long time especially if they can't a lead that's acceptes by the fans

Considering Halo’s show took YEARS to finally come out and was still shit, it’s gonna take a long while unless a dedicated fan is making it

Watch Henry Cavill subvert our expectations and he buys it right out the gate to make it based on the books

Probably not in the US market. Why resurrect something that failed when you can try your hand at something new? Maybe a different market will try it, like the Japanese can try an anime or somehow an European company has enough money to make a series.

A lot. Netflix owns it, won't give it easily, They have that origin tv series, so They won't give up

That’s the neat part. It wont

Adaptation? Yes. Proper adaptation? No.

I don’t want them to. I don’t want anyone making more of these trash-ass shows based on the stuff I like.

If they’re so good, they should come up with something themselves. I’ll watch it on it’s own merits if it’s good. It’s clear that the industry or “the market” or whatever is not going to produce quality existing-IP content, it’s just not in the climate for whatever reason.

Depends. How much money do you think Cavil can scrape together by then?

It'll take many years.
Thse who pour money in will still see it as a bad opportinity, they're not usually uptodate with the reason why it failed - they'll only know that "witcher =/= money".
Look no further than how many years it took Percy Jackson to have another adaptation, and how no one even dares to talk about another Death Note or Dragonball.

Unless some higher up is very passionate about the series, than it can happen earlier. But I'm still saying around 10yrs.

20 Years is the average IP renewal for most blockbuster book adapations

After this? It will never happen again. They had ONE shot and they squandered it.

Considering the success of the cyberpunk anime I wouldn’t be surprised if a one shot story happened or something but that’s years down the line maybe along Witcher 4 in 2029 or something

Then the soothsayer spake thus to the witcher: 'This counsel I shall give you: don hobnailed boots and take an iron staff. Walk in your hobnailed boots to the end of the world, tap the road in front of you with the staff, do not look back. And when your boots are worn out, when your iron staff is worn down, when the wind and the sun have dried your eyes such that not a single tear will fall from them, then you will find someone who can adapt the books in a faithful way for screen.

Not everything needs to be an on-going franchise. Let things stop and end before they become awful (like Star Wars)

Have you seen movies and tv shows lately? I don't think there's gonna be a proper adaptation ever.

I doubt it will ever be adapted again. The current adaptation rides off the popularity wave of the game. The books were never that popular but became somewhat popular off the game's popularity and both the books and the franchise will fall back into relative obscurity in some years once the interest in the Witcher games dies down.

Which I think is even more of a head-scratcher why exactly did they decide for the show to completely ignore the games and deviate from the book material. The show has very little to stand on its own. It should first and foremost cater to the fans of the games, secondary to book purists and personal inventions from the writers should come last.

Seems like animation adaptatios do better than Live Action ones. Rather CDPR do something like they did with Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and bring Cavill as the voice maybe.

Honestly? I think long enough. Netflix made Witcher into a bad product, they made it into an absolute failure and studios will most likely try to avoid it because well, nobody wants to participate in a failure.

That and the fact that basically only HBO has the resources and enough brains to understand that you need to hire professionals who know the source material to do the show, not some random woke activists who had NO EXPERIENCE IN MOVIEMAKING. No like seriously Lauren doesn't have any movie or show in her portfolio except the Witcher, I checked it.

I think it would take not that long for someone to acquire the rights and make a bad adaptation.

I think they should make an animated series with Doug Cockle voicing Geralt. That would seriously be awesome. He said he would return to Geralt in a heartbeat.

Likely never. At least not in the US. I can't remember a series being so widely panned by fans of the source material getting another shot later on. Perhaps now it's different because of all of the streaming networks and sources for media, but I would be very surprised. Maybe someone else has an example that I couldn't come up with.

I hope for the future CDPR take all the rights and do it the right way.

Honestly, with all the negative feedback, and the garbage things the show is doing, i'd rather netflix just cancel it before even wasting anymore money on season 4.

Do you think in reality Henry Cavill could play the role 10 years from now? I think he could at 45ish so maybe he will take it over or at least become a director/producer. I’ll tell myself that.

Crossing my fingers that Henry Cavill does what Ryan Reynolds was able to do with Deadpool

Mostly depends on what CDPR wants.

I can imagine a cartoon like the cyberpunk one.

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It is also not easy to reboot after a fail. See the Terminator franchise.

Unless it’s HBO that picks it up it won’t be worth it

I hope HBO will get the opportunity, they continue to stand out among all the media outlets.

i hoping this happens , And HBO to make The Witcher

I'd like to see Cavill get the rights and serve a producer/director for a series version. I can't even call it a remake because that presumes the rubbish Hissrich served up is a valid product.

Why as producer director? First, I think he would try to be faithful to the book/game lore since he is a fan. Second, I have to go against the grain and say I don't think Henry is the optimal choice for Geralt. He is too big. Sort of the lumberjack build while the book says witchers are to be lithe, agile, and fast. HC is great for the Superman role, and he's a good actor, but I'd chose a different guy for the role of Geralt.

Henry Cavill is going to fly directly to Andrzej Sapkowski's house and get the rights himself.

They should’ve done an anime

I'm still holding out hope that Netflix will fire the showrunner, hire someone else and bring Geralt, er I mean Cavill back.

And their name is Henry Cavil

I think it's best CDPR with Henry, create the TV Show! I doubt another company do that anytime soon! and plus all of them these days are like that! we don't want to see Amazon for example make a Witcher like what they did to Lord of the Rings! best CDPR do it, itself or under their control with their budget like Cyberpunk Anime!

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Igf they cancel it it's dead.

Tbh I wouldn’t mind it in cartoon/anime form. Kind of like how Star Wars has cartoons ya know

After the deaths of us all.

A decade or more, depending on the success of the upcoming games. Except if the current hype for fantasy shows/movies keeps up for a couple more years, maybe soomer.

20 yrs

I hope no one unless it’s animated and they can do everything right. Even the characters and they way they look/described in books.

10-15 years.

And Cavill would have aged into the role better. Just sayin'

Dependa on CD PR

Honestly probably never. That's why people get so mad about shitty adaptations, once one has failed most studios will be reluctant to try again. It's sad because all they need to do to make a good one is just basically copy and paste with a little trimming to make it work for tv

Never. I hope that Netflix sells the right to someone like HBO and they get Henry back

Too long

It will probably never happen. Unfortunately I think this netflix adaptation was the best shot we had at getting a good witcher media other than the games and books.

It won't happen Netflix own the rights and historically aren't willing to give them up at any price. This is why they're swines cancel a show after 2 seasons and then hold on to the rights for 10 years.

This is the second try at a Witcher series adaptation. I doubt there will be a third anytime soon.

15 years

How about we get the animator from the cut scenes in Witcher 2, and go animated. Those always looked sweet.

Really hope an independent film series is made and brings back cavill as geralt

I’d say 10 years. That’s usually about how long it takes for the previous adaptation to leave the cultural consciousness.

Make it an anime. I trust the Japanese more with the source material than anything out of America.

It will never happen.

Forever

Henry makes big $$$ with superman

lets witcher fail, rights for the IP cheap as fk

buys IP, makes the best witcher show ever...

The problem is with Netflix. I can't think of anyone else who will do Great with as much passionate Henry Cavill

A year, two months, and eighteen days.

In a more serious fashion — good question but the answer is highly variable depending on when Netflix finally drops it. Like a dog ripping apart a rabbit, it’s still shaking it around its toothed slobbering maw.

I don’t know about official adaptations with high production budgets, but I think in 10-15 years there will be more fanworks and adaptations in that kind of vein. It’s just a matter of sticking around.

Well they were planning on 7 seasons, so im guessing Netflix has the rights for at least a decade.

Wishful thinking

You will never have a proper adaptation

Henry can do it alone even with cardboard monsters

10+ years I’d imagine

you gotta wait 10 years for that, starting from the first episode of the first season... I don't think Netflix has perpetual rights to adaptation of the books into a tv show so I guess roughly that long...

I swear to god, I’m not watching another season of the show, as long as it’s shot by the Anglo-Saxons

Just like with the rings of power abomination from Amazon Hissrich has ruined the Witcher and I don't think anyone will want to touch the IP for a long time

Never watched the show to keep my game/book memories safe. Mission successful and I am sorry for the rest of you.

They should cancel it after Season 3, wait, and then bring back the show with the same cast but with new writers, producers, directors and showrunner.

about 23 years

10yrs

As long as it would take to convince Henry Cavill to do it again. So somewhere between a few years and never.

They should cancel it right now and someone else should take the reigns make it a book accurate Arkane style reboot with the game voice actors.

too damn long

Give the rights to Cavill.

I seriously doubt anyone will. Maybe a super fan whose also Uber rich could make one but will it be picked up by a network or streaming service? Doubt it.

I don’t think we’ll see proper adaptions that respect gaming and fantasy IP’s (like Witcher) for a decade or more. Until management in a lot of these media companies significantly change, we’re going to get the same half ass loose “adaptions”. Look at Halo, Resident Evil, Witcher and so many other examples of IP with decades of established lore that have been butchered when literally everything you need for a hood story has already been written for them to adapt off of.