The Witcher season 2 video reveals challenges of shooting during pandemic
Production on the second season of the Netflix show has wrapped.
Netflix on Friday dropped a video celebrating the end of The Witcher season 2's coronavirus-delayed production, and the vid gives us a sense of the measures the cast and crew had to take while filming during a pandemic. The upcoming season of the wildly popular show doesn't have a release date yet, but that's likely to be revealed soon.
Star Henry Cavill, who plays infamously sweary mutant monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia, thanks a masked crew before showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich reveals that they shot over 158 days in 15 locations, with 89 cast members and 1,200 crew members.
Everyone was "decked out in face shields, face masks, goggles and slathered in hand sanitizer," Hissrich notes.
The first season hit the streaming service in December 2019, and Netflix has also green-lit a prequel called Blood Origin, set 1,200 years before Geralt's story.
The show is based on a series of Polish novels that kicked off in 1992. They've since been adapted into a beloved video game series, multiple comic books and one poor 2001 movie.