The final season with Henry Cavill starts streaming on Netflix later this month.
Despite the name, Summer Game Fest isn’t entirely about games — case in point, we got a brand-new trailer for The Witcher’s third season. The clip shows off just about everything the series is known for: bloody battles, terrifying monsters, fiery magic, and Geralt looking very awkward at a social affair. And, of course, he spends lots of time talking about how neutral he is.
Season 3 of The Witcher starts streaming on Netflix on June 29th — or at least, some of it does. Just like Stranger Things before it, the latest season of the fantasy show will be split into two parts. Volume one will debut in June, while the second volume will premiere in July.
Monster slayer Geralt of Rivia (Henry Cavill) has spent years in The Witcher claiming neutrality. As he says in the Season 3 trailer, “Neutrality — it won’t get a statue, but it’ll certainly help in keeping you alive.”
But things are different for our hero now that he’s a family man entrusted with the care of Princess Cirilla of Cintra (Freya Allen), someone so powerful, who contains so much chaos — the most difficult force to control — that she’s being pursued by multiple factions on the Continent.
As Cavill told Tudum ahead of the new season, “Now, there is a real threat. It’s genuine; it’s no longer theoretical — it’s practical. And it’s very, very dangerous. They are walking into the lion’s den everywhere they go.”
You can see some of that very real danger in the trailer, which features Geralt, Ciri and Yennefer (Anya Chalotra) fighting some of the many monsters, mages and other forces working against them this year.
Season 3 is inspired by the second installment in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher book series, Time of Contempt, and will finally see our hero reckoning with his feelings after two seasons of steely, tough-guy detachment. As creator Lauren Schmidt Hissrich explained to Tudum in April, “For years, Geralt has claimed neutrality, shunned politics and publicly asserted that witchers don’t have emotions — all to make his life as a killer easier to navigate. We’ve seen him battle monsters and monstrous humans; we’ve watched as he’s hardened himself in order to survive. This season, he can no longer do that.”
The new episodes are “the culmination of what we’ve been building toward all along,” said Hissrich. “We get to see everything on the Continent change, which is super exciting.”
Netflix has steadily been expanding its Witcher universe since the first season debuted in 2019. We’ve had a second season, an animated film, a live-action prequel series starring Michelle Yeoh, and now, a third season so big it’s being split in half. And while star Henry Cavill will be replaced by Liam Hemsworth starting with season 4, it doesn’t appear the franchise will slow down one bit — it’s already been renewed for season 5.
Meanwhile, the Witcher games have cemented their place as some of the bestsellers in the medium.
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