No, Henry Cavill’s bad Superman news doesn’t mean he’s coming back as The Witcher
Sources at Netflix confirm that Cavill's lack of upcoming superhero work don't mean he'll be coming back to his other job, either
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Despite fan hopes that the sudden, uh, “free space” in Henry Cavill’s upcoming filming schedule might mean an about-face on a shocking bit of news from Netflix a few weeks back, Deadline confirms tonight that, no: Henry Cavill is not coming back to play The Witcher again, no matter how many Supermen he isn’t.
Cavill announced that he’d be giving up the part of Geralt Of Rivia, professional monster-hunting man, back in October; although he’ll appear in the show’s still-upcoming third season, his witchering duties for the fourth will be handed over to Liam Hemsworth. And that’s set in stone, per sources apparently close to the show, regardless of any other big casting changes in his life.
We’re referring, of course, to news that broke last night, when the actor revealed that he’d had the part of DC Studios’ Superman yanked out from under him like some sort of fancy Kryptonian rug, after James Gunn announced that the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned studio was going in a different direction for its next Superman movie. Although nobody’s ever said this in a professional capacity, it’s generally been assumed that Cavill walked away from Witcher at least in part because he’d been offered to take up the cape again after several years away from the part; it’s not for nothing that the announcement lined up closely with his cameo appearance in Black Adam, his first time playing Supes since 2017's Justice League.
All of which means that Henry Cavill, for the first time in a decade, is something of a free agent at the moment: No superhero obligations, witchers’ work, or even impossible missions on his dance card. (Although he’s currently on the hook for Matthew Vaughn’s upcoming spy thriller Argylle, which has its own weirdness surrounding it.) It’ll be interesting to see what he does next, but it’s almost certianly not going to be getting coins tossed at him in exchange for decapitating a griffin.
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What a complete and utter disaster from start to finish. I wouldn’t blame Henry Cavill if he just wanted to go on vacation and possibly build PCs and paint some Warhammer figurines for a bit instead.
i just read he’s now attached to star and exec produce a Warhammer 40K series for amazon! everything’s coming up henry!!
EDIT: Never mind, there actually is a Warhammer 40K show that he’s involved in! That’s some fast moving news.
Cleraly he’s spending all his free time on Dragonflight right now.
Lol, as funny as that would be, AFAIK, he doesn’t play anymore. At least, I recall him saying he no longer did in a past interview.
Or go to work for Disney/Marvel instead.
If he wanted to join the MCU, I definitely think they could find a role for him in an upcoming film or series.
i think fans are suggesting either Hyperion (one of marvel’s Superman rip-offs) or Captain Britain. But of course there are countless other options as well
I read that and got excited that he would be making Hyperion as in excellent book by Dan Simmons. Apparently not.Well I hope they succeed making something good out of the 40k. But I fear it will not succeed as over-the-top grimdark horroshow would not sell. Altough I would love to see that.
Dude. Darktide just came out recently, i’m sure he’s fine for now.
He has the same management as Dwayne Johnson. Everything can be blamed on them. Playing hardball with Warner brothers from 2018 to 2022. Doing a black Adam cameo (complete with a stupid announcement post) before a deal was actually locked in to return. Leaving the witcher. It’s all Johnson’s stupid gung ho management team.
Hmm. Fuck.
Looks like SOMEONE is available to play Captain Britain in the MCU.
Yes, Michael sheen!
Depressing if true
His career is just fine. He’s got roles in Matthew Vaughn and Guy Ritchie movies coming up, a Warhammer show that he’ll produce and star in was just rumored today, so on.
GW just confirmed it to be true as well
Johnson is going to be raging somewhere that his black Adam movie went from a phase one franchise starter to a dead duck before it even hits blu-ray.
Or maybe he just wants to spend time with his family, you know?
It’ll be fine when he’s the next James Bond
I’m curious how long they’ve got Hemsworth under contract for the role, though. If he stinks and they only got him for one season at a time with an option for more, they actually could turf him out and bring Cavill back for Season 5 (if it gets one – I doubt the main Witcher series will get more than four or five seasons because Netflix). Whatever he does next, I’d like to see Cavill’s comedy acting – if he’s got it. I wonder if he could do a hilarious live-action Sterling Archer.
He’d still need to be dubbed by H. Jon Benjamin, though.
That would be hilarious (shades of Darth Vader and Star Wars), but I’d be amused to see Cavill do it as well. Live-action would inherently kind of require a bit of a different way of doing Archer than animation, while hopefully keeping the essence of the character.
Maybe they can switch Witcher’s every 3 years. It’s a mutation thing. Totally canon.
Geralt’s soul jumping from body to body, possessing a new Witcher every time. Not sure if that could be a thing in the Witcherverse, but it does have some potent magic.
The rumor is that Cavill departed the series after frustration with production and how far away from the books they were heading. As for comedy/live action Archer, watch The Man From Uncle, he’s great in it. The movie feels a little like a live action Archer show.
He was a poor Geralt, anyway. He was just doing an impression of the American voice-acted Witcher 3 version.
Well ain’t that a Bitcher.
it’s crazy going back and watching his superman announcement video on instagram and seeing the comments are only like 5 weeks old.
I think a lot of this is Discovery stupidity. They immediately made it clear that Walter Hamada was done, but he still had a contract until 2023, so they couldn’t just fire him. Hamada knew he was done and eventually quit over batgirl but was convinced to stay until black Adam released. Hamada pretty clearly checked out (who can blame him?). He even refused a production deal, because he wanted to be gone from the company entirely. Discovery meanwhile loudly wanted a new DC head but while they were trying to find someone, they were hedging their bets that maybe Johnson would be a massive hit with black Adam. Johnson saw a leadership vacuum, and having zero self awareness and nothing hit ego, already assumed his movie would be a smash hit and pre-emptively moved to declare his movie “phase one” of a new DC under control of his team. Discovery was clearly open to this, because what the hell else did they have? Hamada again had stopped caring and even if he told them this was fucking stupid, they weren’t listening to Hamada. Once it became clear the film was a critical and commercial flop, they went with Gunn and then it was reboot time. All within 5 weeks. Because this is how discovery works. Complete and utter stupidity. Along with Johnson being a complete moron with a bigger ego than any actual talent.