Netflix axes blockbuster show's prequel series in another blow to fans after major casting shake-up
Netflix?has axed an 近づいている prequel to one of its most successful series as part of its 最新の string of programming 削減（する）s.
Fans of The Witcher were emotional after seeing the lead actor Henry Cavill's final scenes?last year and the 決定／判定勝ち（する） to axe spinoff series The ネズミs will not help their 原因（となる）.
The news comes just days after it was 発表するd that there would be two more 一連の the main show, with Liam Hemsworth taking over the 肩書を与える 役割, before it reaches a 結論.
The ネズミs was going to be?焦点（を合わせる）d on the group of renegades Ciri (Freya Allan) joined at the end of season three in a six-to-eight episode season.
It would have been a second prequel series for The Witcher, after 2022's 血 Origin featuring Michelle Yeoh told a backstory 1,200 years 事前の to the fantasy series.
Netflix has canned a spinoff to hugely successful series The Witcher after 発表するing there will only be two more 一連の the main show. Pictured: Henry Cavill as the 肩書を与える character
The ネズミs was going to give a backstory to the ギャング（団） of thieves who leave with Ciri (Freya Allan, pictured) at the end of last year's 分割払い of the show
前線d by?Henry as Geralt of Rivia for its first three seasons, The Witcher has given fans of the streaming 巨大（な） 24 episodes over the last five years.?
The story is 奮起させるd by ポーランドの（人） writer Andrzej Sapkowski’s 調書をとる／予約する 一連の the same 指名する which first landed on 棚上げにするs in 1990 and was turned into a ビデオ game series in 2007.
The final two seasons are said to adapt the remaining of his 調書をとる／予約するs Baptism Of 解雇する／砲火／射撃, The Tower Of The Swallow, and Lady Of The Lake while 約束ing to 申し込む／申し出 a 結論 to the series that is both epic and 満足させるing.?
The ensemble cast also 含むs Anya Chalotra, Eamon Farren, Joey Batey and Anna Shafer, の中で others.
The 最新の spinoff had been penciled in two years ago - as they built up to the ギャング（団） of thieves ending up with Ciri in The Witcher's then-近づいている third season.
However, filming 報道によれば only lasted two months from May last year, rather than the six 推定する／予想するd. This 量d to just one or two of the episodes.
There is a 可能性 that what was 発射 last summer will be embedded into The Witcher season four as flashbacks for the renegades who do return to the main show.
It would have been the second spinoff to the Netflix show after? 血 Origin featuring Michelle Yeoh (centre) in 2022
Liam Hemsworth (left) will be taking over as The Witcher in the show's next 版, 予定 in the next year or two
Casting director?Sophie Holland told 最終期限 in the build-up to season three: 'I had a really lovely 適切な時期 recently with a very special - almost standalone - episode of season four of The Witcher, which is 調査するing a 完全に new group of people.
'We 設立する a boy called Connor Crawford and we were able to put him in this group of kids in The Witcher.?You 会合，会う the characters in season three and then they come into their own in season four.'
On April 18, The Witcher's X account 地位，任命するd a clip of its new and returning cast members doing a （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する reading of part of the new season.
Centre-行う／開催する／段階 was Liam Hemsworth, who has 本体，大部分／ばら積みのd up かなり?for his new 役割, joined by castmembers Anya as the sorceress Yennefer of Vengerberg, Freya as Geralt’s 区 Ciri, Joey as Jaskier the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業d, Cassie Clare as the witch Philippa Eilhart and Mahesh Jadu as the mage Vilgefortz of Roggeveen.
The Witcher season four is 推定する／予想するd at either the end of this year or in 2025.?
