The Witcher season 2 spell has been woven over at Netflix, with the proverbial coin of renewal having been tossed to the series by the streaming Valley of Plenty over a month before the premiere of season 1.
The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher was officially confirmed back in November, and with an 8-episode order, which matches the number of episodes for the hit inaugural season. Production on Season 2 will commence in London in early 2020, with a premiere set for fall 2021.
Indeed, Netflix’s gamble seems to have paid off, with The Witcher going on to become one of its biggest performers, due to a touted record-breaking 76 million household presence – notwithstanding ambiguity over the parameters for those metrics.
Indicative of Netflix’s retention of The Witcher‘s key creative personnel, Season 1 showrunner (and the show’s credited creator) Lauren S. Hissrich enthusiastically announced the Season 2 renewal, bestowing praise on the...
The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher was officially confirmed back in November, and with an 8-episode order, which matches the number of episodes for the hit inaugural season. Production on Season 2 will commence in London in early 2020, with a premiere set for fall 2021.
Indeed, Netflix’s gamble seems to have paid off, with The Witcher going on to become one of its biggest performers, due to a touted record-breaking 76 million household presence – notwithstanding ambiguity over the parameters for those metrics.
Indicative of Netflix’s retention of The Witcher‘s key creative personnel, Season 1 showrunner (and the show’s credited creator) Lauren S. Hissrich enthusiastically announced the Season 2 renewal, bestowing praise on the...
- 3/4/2020
- by jbindeck2015
- Den of Geek
Kim Bodnia (Killing Eve) has joined the Season 2 cast of The Witcher, Netflix’s fantasy drama series starring Henry Cavill.
The series that the streamer calls its biggest new show is epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.
Bodnia will play Vesemir, a charming relic of the witcher Golden Age. He is the oldest and most experienced Witcher in the series, as well as a father figure to Geralt (Cavill). As one of the survivors of the Massacre at Kaer Morhen, a haunting slaughter that nearly exterminated the Witchers, he is fiercely protective of the remaining few, who he sees as an endangered community who can find glory on “the Path” slaying monsters.
‘The Witcher...
The series that the streamer calls its biggest new show is epic tale of fate and family — the story of the intertwined destinies of three individuals in the vast world of The Continent, where humans, elves, witchers, gnomes, and monsters battle to survive and thrive, and where good and evil is not easily identified.
Bodnia will play Vesemir, a charming relic of the witcher Golden Age. He is the oldest and most experienced Witcher in the series, as well as a father figure to Geralt (Cavill). As one of the survivors of the Massacre at Kaer Morhen, a haunting slaughter that nearly exterminated the Witchers, he is fiercely protective of the remaining few, who he sees as an endangered community who can find glory on “the Path” slaying monsters.
‘The Witcher...
- 2/28/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dolittle actress Carmel Laniado is joining the second season of Netflix fantasy hit The Witcher in a supporting role.
Brit teen Laniado will join for a minimum of three episodes as Violet, a young girl whose playful and whimsical demeanour is a front for a smarter and more sadistic character.
We hear filming gets underway this month in the UK on the second season with cameras also expected to roll in Scotland and parts of Eastern Europe. The word is that the fantasy show is setting up shop at Arborfield Studios, 40 miles west of London. The first season shot in Hungary, Poland and Spain. Netflix was unavailable for comment.
Henry Cavill leads cast in the series about a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Despite mixed reviews, Netflix revealed last month that the show was...
Brit teen Laniado will join for a minimum of three episodes as Violet, a young girl whose playful and whimsical demeanour is a front for a smarter and more sadistic character.
We hear filming gets underway this month in the UK on the second season with cameras also expected to roll in Scotland and parts of Eastern Europe. The word is that the fantasy show is setting up shop at Arborfield Studios, 40 miles west of London. The first season shot in Hungary, Poland and Spain. Netflix was unavailable for comment.
Henry Cavill leads cast in the series about a solitary monster hunter who struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. Despite mixed reviews, Netflix revealed last month that the show was...
- 2/5/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
In the latest edition of Hollywood Insider's ‘Rendezvous At The Premiere’ - we focus on 'Dolittle' premiere. Watch the cast and crew walk the red carpet and give their reactions and views on the film. For more comments, watch the full episode. Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett, Emma Thompson, Rami Malek, John Cena, Kumail Nanjiani, Octavia Spencer, Tom Holland, Ralph Fiennes, Selena Gomez, Marion Cotillard, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Buckley, Frances de la Tour, Carmel Laniado, Jason Mantzoukas, Craig Robinson, Kasia Smutniak. Crew: Stephen Gaghan, Stephen Gaghan, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Thomas Shepherd, Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, Guillermo Navarro.
- 1/19/2020
- by Hollywood Insider Staff Writer
- Hollywood Insider - Substance & Meaningful Entertainment
Director Stephen Gaghan's "Dolittle" is a fantastical adventure based on the eponymous central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting.
Doctor Dolittle (Downey) is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their language. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world. Impressed with his work the Queen of England (Jessie Buckley) gives him a manor in the countryside, which he uses to house all sorts of animals from far and wide.
Over the years, the good doctor falls in love with Lily (Kasia Smutnaik), an adventurous explorer, and together they have adventures around the world. But when Lily attempts to cross the ocean all alone, she perishes in a storm.
Dolittle retreats from the world and squirrels away in his British countryside manor.
Doctor Dolittle (Downey) is a physician who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their language. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world. Impressed with his work the Queen of England (Jessie Buckley) gives him a manor in the countryside, which he uses to house all sorts of animals from far and wide.
Over the years, the good doctor falls in love with Lily (Kasia Smutnaik), an adventurous explorer, and together they have adventures around the world. But when Lily attempts to cross the ocean all alone, she perishes in a storm.
Dolittle retreats from the world and squirrels away in his British countryside manor.
- 1/17/2020
- GlamSham
Only less than three weeks into the new year and there’s a new flick opening today celebrating the centennial of a much-beloved character of children’s literature. Yes, the medical man who could “talk to the animals” arrived on the printed page, with words and pictures by Hugh Lofting, way back in 1920. It would seem that such a fantastical creation would get scooped up by the fledgling cinema arts. And in 1928 he was the star of a silent animated short by the legendary Lotte Reiniger. Aside from an early thirties NBC radio show he stayed on the shelves of bookstores for over 30 years until the execs at Twentieth Century Fox, encouraged by the “boffo” box office numbers generated by Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music, produced an epic “mega-musical” event. And though it earned two Oscars (for Best Song and Best Visual Effects) Doctor Dolittle almost bankrupted the studio.
- 1/16/2020
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Robert Downey, Jr. talks to the animals in Dolittle, an object lesson in cinematic incoherence that would be easy to dismiss as a hot mess if it could even raise a temperature. Instead, this out-and-out disaster dissolves in a puddle of botched intentions that will leave children sad and confused and adults scratching their heads. Dr. John Dolittle, the beloved British veterinarian created by author Hugh Lofting a century ago, has been previously used and abused by Hollywood, first in 1967 with a soporific musical version starring Rex Harrison, and later...
- 1/16/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been more than half a century since Rex Harrison spoke (and sang!) to animals as author Hugh Lofting’s eloquent veterinarian, and just over two decades since Eddie Murphy gave his own goofy modern portrayal. That’s enough time for Dr. Dolittle to fade from kid audiences’ collective consciousness, and just the right amount for Lofting’s first two books to enter the public domain, which explains why a new studio — Universal, where the two earlier incarnations hailed from Fox — has opted to revive the character yet again, this time enlisting the intensely charismatic actor Robert Downey Jr. to play the title role.
Trouble is, this latest “Dolittle” is downright sloppy. Director Stephen Gaghan’s period-set overhaul of the literary classic proves to be as predictable as it is obnoxious. In its defense, the film evokes an arm’s-length connection with its cute CG creature coterie and delivers heartening messages about psychological trauma,...
Trouble is, this latest “Dolittle” is downright sloppy. Director Stephen Gaghan’s period-set overhaul of the literary classic proves to be as predictable as it is obnoxious. In its defense, the film evokes an arm’s-length connection with its cute CG creature coterie and delivers heartening messages about psychological trauma,...
- 1/15/2020
- by Courtney Howard
- Variety Film + TV
Rex Harrison famously endured getting urinated upon by real sheep during the filming of the 1967 musical “Doctor Dolittle,” while the 2020 version of “Dolittle” sees Robert Downey Jr. removing bagpipes from a CG dragon’s rectum before receiving a faceful of gastric wind as a reward.
Whichever actor had it worse, it’s the audience who loses. Downey’s revival of Hugh Lofting’s legendary loquacious veterinarian, one who can communicate with any member of any species, splats onto the screen like horse dung, with few laughs and no charm. Even the actor’s legendary charisma, which this project sorely needed, gets tamped down by making a depressed widower the hero of a kiddie movie and by having that widower mumble in an accent that’s possibly Welsh, perhaps Irish, maybe Scottish, but definitely the enemy of comedy.
“Dolittle” doesn’t have a fraction of the verve of the similarly misguided “Cats,...
Whichever actor had it worse, it’s the audience who loses. Downey’s revival of Hugh Lofting’s legendary loquacious veterinarian, one who can communicate with any member of any species, splats onto the screen like horse dung, with few laughs and no charm. Even the actor’s legendary charisma, which this project sorely needed, gets tamped down by making a depressed widower the hero of a kiddie movie and by having that widower mumble in an accent that’s possibly Welsh, perhaps Irish, maybe Scottish, but definitely the enemy of comedy.
“Dolittle” doesn’t have a fraction of the verve of the similarly misguided “Cats,...
- 1/15/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The actor formerly known as Tony Stark’s new cinematic foray, Doctor Dolittle, is a zoo… in all the worst ways.
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The fact that Robert Downey Jr.’s new family movie is called Dolittle implies the “Doctor” is out. Perhaps then it is hoped we will mistake this as a new kind of origin story for the man who spent the last decade as Iron Man? Then again, Eddie Murphy’s 1998 take on the source material tackled that journey of becoming. Instead Downey’s healer-turned-hermit is just another malcontent who’s abandoned his title and its responsibilities, at least with regard to humans, and must spend this movie learning to reaccept his place in the world with the help of his animal family. Unfortunately, unlike the good doctor, you would be better off staying home.
As Dolittle is a movie for children, the audience proxies are two...
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The fact that Robert Downey Jr.’s new family movie is called Dolittle implies the “Doctor” is out. Perhaps then it is hoped we will mistake this as a new kind of origin story for the man who spent the last decade as Iron Man? Then again, Eddie Murphy’s 1998 take on the source material tackled that journey of becoming. Instead Downey’s healer-turned-hermit is just another malcontent who’s abandoned his title and its responsibilities, at least with regard to humans, and must spend this movie learning to reaccept his place in the world with the help of his animal family. Unfortunately, unlike the good doctor, you would be better off staying home.
As Dolittle is a movie for children, the audience proxies are two...
- 1/14/2020
- Den of Geek
Joseph Baxter Feb 5, 2020
Netflix's Henry Cavill-headlined series, The Witcher, landed a second season order over a month before its premiere.
The Witcher Season 2 spell has been woven over at Netflix, with the proverbial coin of renewal having been tossed to the series by the streaming Valley of Plenty over a month before this past December's arrival of Season 1!
The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher was officially confirmed back in November, set to manifest with an 8-episode run, which matches the number of episodes for the hit inaugural season. Production on Season 2 will commence in London in early 2020, with a premiere set for fall 2021. Additionally, the show’s main cast trio – Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer and Freya Allan as Ciri – are set to return.
Indeed, Netflix's gamble seems to have paid off, with The Witcher going on to become one of its biggest performers,...
Netflix's Henry Cavill-headlined series, The Witcher, landed a second season order over a month before its premiere.
The Witcher Season 2 spell has been woven over at Netflix, with the proverbial coin of renewal having been tossed to the series by the streaming Valley of Plenty over a month before this past December's arrival of Season 1!
The second season of Netflix’s The Witcher was officially confirmed back in November, set to manifest with an 8-episode run, which matches the number of episodes for the hit inaugural season. Production on Season 2 will commence in London in early 2020, with a premiere set for fall 2021. Additionally, the show’s main cast trio – Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer and Freya Allan as Ciri – are set to return.
Indeed, Netflix's gamble seems to have paid off, with The Witcher going on to become one of its biggest performers,...
- 11/13/2019
- Den of Geek
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