• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.mlEnglish
    58·
    8 months ago

    He has other shit going on, yes, but Cavill left the show because the writers weren’t sticking to the source material.

    • argueswithidiots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      48·
      8 months ago

      The best part about this, and the one I don’t see echoed enough, is that Cavill is a nerd. And I mean that in the best way. He ignored the call casting him as Superman because he was in a WoW raid.

      He is invested in the Witcher series because it means something to him. He’s played the games, read the novels, and he was constantly pushing back on the writers and producers for straying. “Geralt wouldn’t do that, or Yennefer wouldn’t say that…” Etc. I love that he was passionate enough about it to stick to what he knew was correct.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      8 months ago

      It was a lot more than that. He said from the beginning he was onboard for like 7 seasons if they stuck to the source material. Season 1 they immediately started fucking with main characters. The showrunners made it clear they wanted to make their own story, but had to use The Witcher IP.

      The best scenes in the first season were ones that Cavill insisted were changed and that he worked on specifically to stay truer to the source material and his character.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I stopped watching with how badly they changed the story midway through season two so the switch to Liam didn’t really make a difference to me. I don’t understand why show runners sometimes work on material they clearly don’t like. I guess a gig is a gig

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    God I am so the opposite. I don’t give a shit. They’re actors the whole point is they’re supposed to be able to pretend to be people. I can’t stand when Studios pretend that a role belongs to a single actor. Recast that shit. Elizabeth Shue did it with Back to the Future 2 and it was excellent.