Henry Cavill quits The Witcher

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-Henry Cavill has decided to quit The Witcher ahead of the 4th season so he can focus on new projects (or reboot projects *Superman*)

-Liam Hemsworth will take up the role of the main character in Cavills place.

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[t_snake]

That's utter bullshit. Just end the show.

[screamingintune]

exactly what I said

Liam Hemsworth? NOPE

[disheveledhair]

I like Liam and I’m a big nope on this too.

[euraylie]

I don’t even watch the show and that was my reaction

[fauxkaren]

WTF? Henry was such a great Geralt! And he clearly really loved the story.

Whoa.

Recasting the main character midway through a story is wild.

[a_files06]

It's very Spartacus but less tragic thankfully

[wwgrogudo]

RIP Andy.

[ladyserenity84]

That loss still hurts my heart.

[sjpheartshim]

I don't know why they don't just cancel it, you know it won't survive past season 4.

[rabbitncavylove]

I read they’re shooting season 4 and 5 back to back. So at least two seasons

[syvlie0o0]

Lmfaooooooooooooooo

[theactualworst]

I was waiting for this post! I even made my own because I was so WTF??

I can’t believe he’d walk away from this to do Superman… Has he not been reading the DC/WB news lately??

I don’t see the show lasting past season 4 tbh.

[fauxkaren]

I wonder if it is contractual?

Like his WB/DC contract takes precedence? (Maybe that contract has him for 7 movies or whatever and he'd always have to prioritize filming those over filming the Witcher which will just not work for Witcher's filming schedule/production)

[aristobrit]

No, he has no WB contract. They quit making those movies for the reason. Man of Steel only made $43 million profit on a budget of $220M. That's not a ratio that inspires an immediate sequel.

It looks like he's been talking to WBD for the past month since he filmed his Black Adam cameo, and they said in order to go forward, you have to quit Witcher, so we have access to you for filming a Superman movie. Kind of a prove your loyalty kind of thing.

He only had a 3 season contract with Witcher, and he already signed up for that Guy Ritchie WWII movie that will film from January to June. WBD needs time to get a script and director, but it appears they want to fast track Superman since David Zaslav believes in milking the top 3 DC characters.

[sjpheartshim]

Right? Especially since this was supposedly his passion project since he loved the video games so much