On Tuesday, Netflix dropped a clip from The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep on the firm’s Geeked Week 2024 occasion. The clip for the upcoming animated movie leans on the acquainted dulcet growls of Doug Cockle, who voiced Geralt of Rivia in the video games.
Cockle introduces the clip with an enthusiastic tease of the merpeople Geralt will battle within the movie. “That’s right — he’s gonna cross swords with merpeople of all things!” Cockle exclaims within the clip. “Amazing stuff, it’s gonna be so cool.” Hey, can’t blame a voice actor for hyping their mission.
The scene exhibits Geralt and Jaskier (voiced by Joey Batey, who additionally performs him within the live-action sequence) sitting by a campfire. Jaskier, after complaining concerning the city’s “small-minded fools,” picks up on Geralt’s obvious curiosity in Essi and tries to play Cupid for the brooding white-haired monster slayer.
The clip additionally reveals The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep’s official launch date. The movie will start streaming on Netflix on February 11, 2025, after initially being introduced for late 2024.
The movie is predicated on A Little Sacrifice, a brief story written by Witcher universe creator Andrzej Sapkowski. Set between episodes 5 and 6 of the Netflix sequence’ first season, the movie has Geralt “hired to investigate a series of attacks in a seaside village and finds himself drawn into a centuries-old conflict between humans and merpeople.” It’s from the South Korean animation studio Studio MIR, which additionally animated the 2021 prequel movie The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.
Beneath, you possibly can watch the Geeked Week clip, together with the delightfully growly-voiced Cockle’s introduction.
