news culture The Witcher: Netflix series fans want Henry Cavill back, here’s what they’re ready to do
Henry Cavill, the British actor who lent his features to Geralt de Riv in the series The Witcher, will not be there for the fourth season. A departure which is the straw that broke the camel’s back for many fans who mobilized.
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- Netflix in the eyes of The Witcher fans
- Henry Cavill’s departure? The drop of water
Netflix in the eyes of The Witcher fans
Last weekend, fans of Henry Cavill and the series The Witcher on Netflix fell from the skies: the British actor will no longer play Geralt de Riv, The protagonist of the show. He left his place to Liam Hemsworth (The Hunger Games especially) via a long message published on his Instagram account. A departure that the spectators found difficult to understand and which some do not seem to digest. This is evident from the initiative of some who ask the SVOD platform to make come back superman for the continuation of Geralt’s adventures. Take effect, some started a petition which has already collected more than 40,000 signatures at the time of writing :
Let’s show them in large numbers (and therefore lost money, because that’s all they really care about) that none of us The Witcher fans will support them and ditch the show (and potentially our subscriptions) after the end of season 3 of The Witcher.
In addition to their mobilization, therefore, it is their subscription to Netflix that they are ready to terminate on the grounds that the platform has taken a decision that was contrary to the satisfaction of the fans.
Henry Cavill’s departure? The drop of water
An initiative that may seem aggressive, but which is at least justified by the organizers. For days, rumors have been swirling about the reasons to be found to explain Henry Cavill’s departure from the series. Some explain that he would have less time to devote to the adaptation of the literary saga of Andrzej Sapkowski due to his return to Superman. Others are based on rumors that can be read on the web: Cavill, an amateur of many video games and a fan of the character Geralt, would have had differences with the production and the scriptwriters about the writing of his character.
The reason The Witcher is such a popular series is the fans’ love for the source material of the books and games, which the writers and series director hate and actively mock.
You can read that on the petition page. These remarks allude to recent remarks by Beau DeMayopen for a few episodes of the first two seasons of the series as well as for the animated film The Wolf’s Nightmare. During a question and answer session organized on Instagram around X-Men 97, he said that some screenwriters present had “openly mocked the original materials“. A finding that probably broke the camel’s back when Henry Cavill’s departure was announced.
