Lauren Schmidt Hissrich and Declan de Barra also talk about bringing Jaskier back, and designing the Conjunction of the Spheres.
Editor's Note: This interview contains spoilers for The Witcher: Blood OriginIn the new Netflix series The Witcher: Blood Origin, viewers are transported back 1200 years before Geralt , Yennefer , and Ciri ever crossed paths. The series follows a flourishing Elven society, and sees the creation of the first proto-Witcher, all events leading up to the “Conjunction of the Spheres.”
DECLAN DE BARRA: It was an organic process. We had the basic pilot and then we were constantly shaping it as we were going on. "What can we do to make this better? What can we use to make this stronger?" And you're constantly rewriting. Then Lauren had the great suggestion of, what if we used Jaskier's device to tie it back? And it just seems so clear and obvious now, but at the time in the fog of war, you go, oh wow. Yeah, of course.
Lauren, with the success of The Witcher, I want to know how far have you actually thought about the long term story of The Witcher? Have you thought about if we get to go to seven seasons, I have this or is it sort of season by season? SCHMIDT HISSRICH: Thank you for saying that. And I think, just one tiny, tiny little thing, which is that, I think a lot of people believe that you sort of go into a season of television saying it's going to be this book, but clearly that's something that we have not been able to do because there are some books that are like Blood of Elves, which season two sort of loosely was based around.
We'll talk a little bit about the time travel because that's a whole thing that you guys open up with this. DE BARRA: No, it was... Once we discussed Avallac'h going forward, that was the obvious because in the books he's so concerned and obsessed with Ciri, dark Avallac'h. She’ll call him dark Avallac'h, once he no longer innocent and wide eyed. So it seemed the obvious place for that to go as a connection for the fans. So it sets up where it goes in the books and in the TV show.
DE BARRA: It shifted around a lot. Once it was going to be Éile and then the idea of sacrifice- Witchers are always sacrificing themselves or someone is sacrificing an innocent essentially to become a Witcher, is always this element of sacrifice and sacrifice. The idea of sacrifice between two lovers where someone co-ops or steals the other person's sacrifice because they love them, without admitting that they loved them. That was something really strong.
I definitely want to ask you about the skull that is found towards the end of episode four. What would you like to say about that skull? DE BARRA: We're in a really unique time in the world. COVID did a number on everyone. There's so many shows up in the air, everybody's competing for everything. Locations, wood, electricians, everything like that. Plus you're doing it in a plague. Plus everybody's emotionally exhausted. So I mean, I just can't thank everybody enough that who worked on this, everybody was so tired emotionally and physically as well.
SCHMIDT HISSRICH: We haven't discussed that yet, but at this point I think what we see happening across all sort of streamers, I wouldn't rule it out. I do think that obviously we don't put anything out that we're not incredibly proud of. So that dictates our entire launch date. And I think it'll be interesting. Again, we have a way still a very long time, eight, eight-ish months or so until Witcher Season 3 will come out. So God willing, we get it all out at the same time.
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