{"id":107838,"date":"2020-01-23T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/the_rumours_were_true_a_netflix_witcher_anime_movie_really_is_in_the_works"},"modified":"2020-01-23T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:10:00","slug":"the-rumours-were-true-a-netflix-witcher-anime-movie-really-is-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/the-rumours-were-true-a-netflix-witcher-anime-movie-really-is-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rumours Were True, A Netflix Witcher &#8220;Anime&#8221; Movie Really Is In The Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/106e7dc9a4362\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/106e7dc9a4362\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"The Witcher\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/106e7dc9a4362\/the-witcher.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/106e7dc9a4362\/the-witcher.900x.jpg\" alt=\"The Witcher\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>After the success of the books and video games, Netflix is cashing in on <em>The Witcher<\/em>. Most recently we saw it release season one of its digital series starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, and now the streaming giant is interested telling more stories from the same universe.<\/p>\n<p>After ongoing rumours, it has confirmed The Witcher &#8220;anime&#8221; film is indeed a <em>thing<\/em>. This was confirmed by the official <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hatsuu95\/status\/1220062005211619328\">@NXOnNetflix<\/a> Twitter account, which went on to explain how this upcoming movie was titled <em>The Witcher: Nightmare<\/em> of the Wolf and is being handled by The Witcher&#8217;s showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich and writer Beau DeMayo.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The rumors are true, a new Witcher story is in the works! The anime film, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, will take us back to a new threat facing the Continent. Brought to you by the Witcher team <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LHissrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LHissrich<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeauDeMayo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BeauDeMayo<\/a>, and Studio Mir the studio behind Legend of Korra.<\/span>\u2014 NX (@NXOnNetflix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXOnNetflix\/status\/1220044349335130112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As noted, the story will be about a &#8220;new threat&#8221; facing the Continent, and Studio Mir \u2013 the studio behind <em><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Legend_of_Korra\">The Legend of Korra<\/a> \u2013<\/em> will be helping out. This follows the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-01-22-the-witcher-tracking-to-be-our-biggest-season-one-tv-series-ever-says-netflix\">recent news<\/a> that the first season of Netflix&#8217;s Witcher series was viewed by 76 million households for at least two minutes. <em>Odd, we know.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Would you be interested in an animated film based on The Witcher? Tell us down in the comments.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the success of the books and video games, Netflix is cashing in on The Witcher. Most recently we saw it release season one of its digital series starring Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, and now the streaming giant is interested telling more stories from the same universe. After ongoing rumours, it has confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}