Ciri in The Witcher season 3 – Picture: Netflix
While the third season of Netflix’s The Witcher was in manufacturing, the streamer quietly began the event of The Rats, a brand new prequel collection centered on a bunch of teenage renegades who can be launched on the finish of Season 3. Here’s what we all know up to now in regards to the new upcoming spin-off.
The new collection is created by The Witcher author Haily Hall, who additionally serves as showrunner. Shadow and Bone and The Sandman director Mairzee Almas can be connected to direct an unknown quantity of episodes. The Witcher showrunner Lauren Hissrich and government producer Tomek Baginski are additionally producing this collection.
The Rats collection nonetheless hasn’t been formally introduced by Netflix even after the discharge of season 3, quantity 1, however it has been frequent information for a lot of months now with solid and crew already actively filming on location.
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The preliminary details about the collection was revealed by Redanian Intelligence again in November 2022. What’s on Netflix additionally has sources that acknowledged the venture was in improvement, with it being internally known as Riff Raff.
What’s the plot of The Rats?
Artwork of The Rats by JustAnor
The plot of The Rats isn’t based mostly on any guide or storyline from The Witcher writer Andrzej Sapkowski, however slightly takes the characters and creates its personal backstory for them earlier than they meet Ciri on the finish of The Witcher Season 3.
So far, we solely have a brief logline:
“Six teenage thieves must rely on their criminal skills as they plan the biggest heist of their careers against the most dangerous crime ring in the kingdom.”
Who is solid in The Witcher spin-off The Rats?
Cast Grid for Netflix’s The Rats collection
The gang of teenage criminals known as The Rats consists of Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh, Iskra, Reef, and Asse.
They are performed by Ben Radcliffe, Christelle Elwin, Fabian McCallum, Aggy Ok. Adams, Juliette Alexandra, and Connor Crawford, respectively. They all make their first look in The Witcher Season 3 and can reprise their roles on this spin-off.
Additionally, the 80s and 90s motion star Dolph Lundgren has been solid as a ruthless rogue witcher from the School of the Cat known as Brehen. Brehen briefly seems in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Season of Storms the place he has a confrontation with Geralt of Rivia. In The Rats, Brehen’s position is unclear.
Other suspected solid consists of Deoudone van der Merwe, Warren Masemola, Stevel Marc, Max Boast, and Daniela Norman.
What’s the manufacturing standing of The Rats?
The Rats collection received into manufacturing beneath the codename ‘Riff Raff’ in Cape Town, South Africa. Filming began there in late April and was initially anticipated to conclude in September 2023, nonetheless, as Redanian Intelligence stories in July 2023, the collection has wrapped filming.
Behind the scenes photos from manufacturing on Riff Raff / The Rats spin-off
That’s led to hypothesis about what kind Rats (or Riff Raff) will ultimately materialize as. The variety of episodes in The Rats is presently unknown, however it could possibly be as little as 4, like The Witcher: Blood Origin.
What’s the Netflix launch date for The Rats?
Netflix hasn’t introduced the collection but, not to mention its launch date, however judging by what we all know up to now; an early to mid-2024 launch could be seemingly.
This is one in every of two main spin-offs Netflix is presently engaged on for The Witcher, which itself is renewed by means of to season 5. The different spin-off is one other anime film named The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep.
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