Netflix has announced that Star Trek: Discovery‘s Michelle Yeoh has joined the cast of the upcoming The Witcher prequel series, The Witcher: Blood Origin. Yeoh is specifically playing Scian, who is described as “the very last of her nomadic tribe of sword-elves.” The six-part, live-action limited series does not yet have a definitive release date.
Here is the logline previously provided by Netflix for The Witcher: Blood Origin:
“Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal ‘conjunction of the spheres,’ when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.”
As noted above, for The Witcher: Blood Origin, Declan de Barra will be showrunner and an executive producer while The Witcher showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich will act as an executive producer. The Witcher franchise creator and author Andrzej Sapkowski will also serve as creative consultant on the series. According to the original announcement of the series, Jason Brown and Sean Daniel of Hivemind as well as Tomek Baginski and Jarek Sawko from Platige Films will also be executive producers. You can check out all of our previous coverage of the upcoming limited prequel series right here.
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