The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, the second animated movie set in Netflix‘s Witcher-Verse, will not be releasing this 12 months in any case.
Introduced in a Geeked Week 2024 video starring voice actor Doug Cockle, who reprises his iconic function as Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher videogame collection within the forthcoming movie, Sirens of the Deep will not arrive earlier than 2024 ends. As a substitute, it’s going to now purpose to forged a spell on viewers worldwide on February 11, 2025.
The film’s official launch date was revealed alongside a brand new clip, which exhibits Geralt and Jaskier, one other fan-favorite character from The Witcher, having fun with a meal by a campfire as they talk about Essi, a rival bard and good friend of Jaskier’s.
Sirens of the Deep was anticipated to launch on the world’s greatest streaming service someday in late 2024. Certainly, Netflix mentioned as a lot upon The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep‘s official unveiling final November, however the streaming titan has, for causes unknown, handed the grownup animated flick a revised launch date.
For anybody who must know, Sirens of the Deep relies on ‘A Little Sacrifice’, a brief story companion piece to Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher e-book collection that expands on Geralt’s adventures throughout The Continent. Per a Netflix press blast that was launched alongside the film’s official announcement in late 2023, it’s going to see the well-known monster hunter “examine a collection of assaults in a seaside village” earlier than Geralt “finds himself drawn right into a centuries-old battle between people and merpeople”. It’s going to be as much as everybody’s favourite mutant, and allies previous and new, to forestall all-out battle erupting between the land-dwelling and sea-faring kingdoms.Â
Becoming a member of Cockle on the voice forged roster is Christina Wren (Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice), who’ll voice Essi. Joey Batey and Anya Chalotra, who play Jaskier and Yennefer in Netflix’s live-action tackle The Witcher novels, will voice their respective characters in Sirens of the Deep, too.
A brief hiatus for Netflix’s flagship fantasy franchise
With The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep not on account of launch till early subsequent 12 months, 2024 would be the first correct 12 months the place Netflix will not launch a brand new Witcher-Verse undertaking.
Certainly, since The Witcher‘s first season debuted in late 2019, Netflix’s live-action and animated retellings of Sapkowski’s adored e-book collection has all the time delivered one thing new for brand spanking new and established followers to get pleasure from and/or bristle with frustration over. The aforementioned debut of one of many greatest Netflix exhibits however, 2021 noticed The Witcher season 2 and The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf unleashed on the world, 2022 gave us the critically-panned The Witcher: Blood Origin, and 2023 noticed followers bid farewell to Henry Cavill after his closing outing as Geralt in The Witcher season 3.
2020 was the one different 12 months when a brand new Witcher manufacturing did not see the sunshine of day, however there have been mitigating circumstances, with the pandemic closely impacting season 2’s improvement. If not for Covid-19, then, Netflix doubtless would’ve launched a brand new season or standalone manufacturing, yearly for the previous 5 years.
Because it stands, with Sirens of the Deep not releasing till February 2025, The Witcher season 4 in the course of its improvement cycle, and The Rats‘ live-action spin-off being cancelled, there will be no Continent-based jaunts for viewers to take a look at. Nonetheless, with The Witcher affected by diminishing returns on the crucial and industrial entrance, taking a 12 months off could also be a blessing in disguise. In spite of everything, because of the 2023 Hollywood strikes, Marvel was pressured to scale back its output in 2024, and have a look at how the MCU’s flagging fortunes have rotated because of this. Why cannot Netflix’s Witcher-Verse get pleasure from the same renaissance interval in 2025 with Sirens of the Deep and, if it is prepared, The Witcher season 4?
