Netflix’s The Witcher prequel, The Witcher: Blood Origin, has found one of its lead characters, Shadow and Act has learned.
Queen & Slim star Jodie-Turner Smith has landed a lead role in the six-episode limited series.
The series logline: Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
Smith will play Éile, “an elite warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess, who has left her clan and position as Queen’s guardian to follow her heart as a nomadic musician. A grand reckoning on the continent forces her to return to the way of the blade in her quest for vengeance and redemption.”
Declan de Barra will executive produce alongside showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich. The Witcher: Blood Origin is one of two The Witcher spinoffs, the other being an animated film, The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf.
The in-demand Turner-Smith will be seen next in A24’s After Yang opposite Colin Farrell and Amazon’s Without Remorse, opposite Michael B. Jordan. Both films are She’ll also star as Queen Anne Boleyn in a three-part mini-series for the U.K. broadcaster, Channel 5.