WHICH WITCHER?

NETFLIX GUY blames "Americans and young people" for dumbing down

- Andy Chalk

Former Gerlat Henry Cavill has made a point of saying he "pushed really, really hard" to stay true to the Witcher books, while also claiming that some of the writers on the show "actively disliked" them.

Some aspects of Andrzej Sapkowski's novels have been simplified for the TV show, and in an interview with Polish site Wyborcza, executive producer Tomek Baginski said: "[A] higher level of nuance and complexity will have a smaller range."

Baginski said he encountered a "perceptual block" with American audiences some years ago, when he was promoting an unfinished film project called Hardkor 44, a sci-fi retelling of the Warsaw Uprising.