![]() In the upcoming second season of The Witcher, Vesemir will make his debut, not as an anime stud but in live-action form, as played by Killing Eve's Kim Bodnia. So, looking at Vesemir as a father figure and looking at Geralt as a very serious, no-nonsense Witcher, it kind of began to make more sense that Vesemir would be a very different type of character and very different type of Witcher." You tend to develop your personality in reaction to your parents. So it felt that if we went back and met a Vesemir who was just Geralt 2.0 - or in this case, a prototype - one, it's not interesting, it's just now how families work. You could not pick three more different individuals to become a surrogate family. "I think Witcher is a story about families, and how families, generationally, are so different than the people who came before," he explains. There's no room for Geralt to be happy-go-lucky but Vesemir - who escapes poverty by voluntarily joining the order and gains strength, fortune, and some manner of fame as a result - should act differently.īeyond that, DeMayo says there's another reason why this young Vesemir is a hotshot: Because Geralt isn't. Nightmare of the Wolf takes place long before this era, when the order is closer to something that might be considered its prime - even if there's a looming rot in the order's core. In the time of the core Witcher series, the monster-hunting order is a shadow of what it once was, and Witchers are feared, ostracized, and othered. "In backwards engineering that, I came to this idea that he could have been a very swashbuckling, kind of a braggart, casanova, charismatic character." And I kind of looked at that and went, 'What was this guy like in his early 20s?'" DeMayo explains. There's a bit of a mischievous quality to him. "The idea for Vesemir came from looking at how he interacts with Ciri in the books and in the video games as an older man. In his prime, he looks and acts unlike Geralt and other Witchers we're used to - something writer and producer Beau DeMayo says was intentional. Nightmare of the Wolf's Vesemir, in comparison, is downright suave. The difference is that Geralt seems somber, burdened, and perpetually grimy. Geralt of Rivera, played in the show by the undeniably handsome Henry Cavill, is clearly a bit of a looker himself. Hot characters, even hot Witchers, aren't unheard of. It's more than just Vesemir's appearance that's a bit of a surprise for Witcher fans. When Han, who works for the Korean animation company Studio MIR, went about designing the young Vesemir, he went back hundreds of years to create a character who "shouldn't be too handsome, but he had to be quite good-looking and appealing because he's the main character." (Based on fan response to the trailer, however, it's possible Han underestimated how handsome Vesemir turned out.) "I imagined Vesemir in his current status, which is an old man, but then, this is a story about a younger Vesemir," Kwang Il Han, Nightmare of the Wolf's director and co-executive producer, tells SYFY WIRE through an interpreter. Not so in Nightmare of the Wolf, which tells the story of his rise as a swashbuckling Witcher - and the downfall of the Witcher organization. Fans know him as the white-haired father figure to Geralt (and grandfather figure to Ciri) in the books and games. Witchers - magically and chemically enhanced monster-hunters - live much longer than normal humans do, so while Vesemir normally looks pretty good for a man who has been alive for hundreds of years, he's still old. 23, is a prequel to the main events of The Witcher franchise, taking place hundreds of years before most of the events in the TV show, video games, and original books. Nightmare of the Wolf, which hits Netflix on Aug. ![]() But, in the anime, which takes place long before the events of the show, he's young. Typically, Vesemir, a veteran Witcher, is an old man. The anime movie focused on Vesemir, a character who appears in the games, books, and in the upcoming second season of the live-action Netflix show. When the first trailer for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf premiered last month, one thing really stood out to longtime fans of The Witcher franchise.
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