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Liam Hemsworth will replace Henry Cavill as Geralt for The Witcher’s last two seasons.
Netflix has announced that The Witcher will officially return for a fifth and final season, with Liam Hemsworth reprising his role as Geralt now that Henry Cavill has departed the project. The fifth season will be filmed back-to-back with Season 4, which just began production this week with a table read.
The Witcher will end in Season 5
Netflix has confirmed that The Witcher is coming to an end, but not an untimely one. The series begins production on its fourth season this week, with Liam Hemsworth stepping in to replace Henry Cavill as the titular witcher, Geralt of Rivia. The streamer’s start of production announcement also includes a brief summary of Season 4’s main story:
After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three, the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding one another again.
It appears Season 4 will once again see Geralt, Yennefer and Ciri separated and working to reunite against all odds - which lines up with the events of the book this season is based on, Baptism of Fire. Season 4 will likely also have to adapt some elements of Book 6 in the series, The Tower of the Swallow, unless the series somehow plans to squeeze in the entirety of Book 6 and Book 7, The Lady of the Lake, in one impossibly packed final season.
Season 5 of The Witcher will end the show, but it doesn’t sound like this is an early cancellation. Despite there being three books left to adapt in the series’ final two seasons, it does seem doable at its current pace. The series will likely only return later in 2025, seeing as Season 4 only began production this week, but the wait for Season 5 shouldn’t be as long. It’s clear that the showrunners have a plan to bounce back from the loss of Henry Cavill in the series, though Cavill himself is already moving onto a Warhammer 40K project for Amazon.