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2025 is meant to be an eventful year for The Witcher franchise across multiple media formats. Andrzej Sapkowski will release his new Witcher book, Crossroads of Ravens, internationally in 19 countries this September. CD Projekt Red has been making all sorts of reveals and first looks into The Witcher 4, the next game. On the Netflix side of things, we got The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep anime earlier this year, with season 4 on the horizon, although it’s been very quiet.
What’s the latest with season 4? Will it still release in 2025? Here’s everything we know.
Who is behind The Witcher Season 4?
Netflix has officially announced the writers and directors team of Season 4 when they entered production back in April 2024.
- Writers: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (401), Tania Lotia (402), Rae Benjamin (403), Troy Dangerfield (404), Matthew D’Ambrosio (405), Javier Grillo-Marxuach (406), Clare Higgins (407), Mike Ostrowski (408)
- Directors: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan (401 & 402), Tricia Brock (403 & 404), Alex Garcia Lopez (405 & 406), Jeremy Webb (407 & 408)
As you can see, the writers are the same as those in Season 3, with some returning from Seasons 1 and 2. Directors here are mostly new, except Alex Garcia Lopez, who directed two episodes back in Season 1.
The Witcher Season 4 has been in production since October 2024 and is currently in post-production.
How will The Witcher address Geralt’s recast?
Henry Cavill’s exit was announced back in October 2022, and it took the entire Witcher fandom by surprise. In the same announcement, Liam Hemsworth was declared as Cavill’s replacement as Geralt of Rivia, and since then, there have been many speculations as to how The Witcher would address that change. One would think that putting Liam Hemsworth in Geralt’s costume and calling it a day would be enough, as that would be treating this as any other recast ever (including Sam Woolf replacing Christ Fulton as Rience in Season 3). Still, the people behind The Witcher felt different.
We have since learned exactly how The Witcher Season 4 will go about this, and it will start with the very opening scene of the new season. The Witcher Season 4 will introduce Nimue, a young girl who is alive some 100 years after Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer have passed and have become a legend. Nimue, played by Eve Ridley, is very interested in these stories and seeks every opportunity to learn more. Luckily, there is Stribog (Clive Russell), a wandering storyteller who comes to Nimue’s village once in a while and tells various tales to local kids in exchange for food.
Season 4 of The Witcher will open with Stribog telling one of these stories to Nimue and other kids. The kids keep interrupting him with other versions of the story they heard. Meanwhile, we get a montage. Geralt fighting Vilgefortz, with each cut having some slight differences. Once he’s in his black shirt as seen in Season 3, other times he’s fighting the same fight in his Season 2 armor, and so on. We saw The Witcher re-enacting that Season 3 fight for Season 4 with Liam Hemsworth.
The point of all that is that Stribog is meant to tell the kids (and the viewers, it appears) that this is how it really went down and this is how Geralt really looked.
What can we expect from the plot of The Witcher Season 4? Who is returning?
Judging by the final episodes of The Witcher Season 3 and the overall story trajectory of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, we can tell that the next season of The Witcher will have its focus on three main groups, centering around the show’s three main characters. Geralt will be with his Hansa searching for Ciri, Ciri will be with The Rats, and Yennefer will be with the Lodge of Sorceresses.
Geralt is on his way to Nilfgaard with Joey Batey‘s Jaskier and Meng’er Zhang‘s Milva. Joining his team or Hansa throughout Season 4 will be fan-favorites from CDPR’s games, Danny Woodburn‘s Zoltan Chivay and Laurence Fishburne‘s Regis, as well as Eamon Farren‘s Cahir.
Yennefer’s path also seems not too dissimilar to Geralt’s in the sense that by the end of Season 3, she has formed the Lodge of Sorceresses, and we expect Yennefer to assemble this team one by one in Season 4. The founding members as of Season 3 include Anya Chalotra‘s Yennefer, Anna Shaffer‘s Triss Merigold, Rochelle Rose‘s Margarita Laux-Antille, Therica Wilson-Read‘s Sabrina Glevissig, and Safiyya Ingar‘s Keira Metz.
The Rats
Others who are expected to join the Lodge are Cassie Clare‘s Philippa Eilhart, who formed and led the Lodge in the books, Micaela Simson‘s Francesca Findabair, and Mimi Khayisa‘s Fringilla Vigo. Season 4 may or may not introduce three more: Sheala de Tancarville, Assire var Anahid, and Ida Emean.
Ciri’s journey in Season 4 is with The Rats. This gang of teenage criminals consists of Giselher, Mistle, Kayleigh, Iskra, Reef, and Asse. They are played by Ben Radcliffe, Christelle Elwin, Fabian McCallum, Aggy K. Adams, Juliette Alexandra, and Connor Crawford, respectively. We’ll see quite a lot of The Rats in Season 4, but sooner or later, they will run into Sharlto Copley‘s Leo Bonhart.
Noteworthy: Netflix was developing The Rats as a standalone series but ultimately dropped it midway through production.
Other returning characters should include Jeremy Crawford as Yarpen Zigrin, Bart Edwards as Emhyr var Emreis, Frances Pooley as Fake Ciri, Mahesh Jadu as Vilgefortz, Graham McTavish as Dijkstra, and Hugh Skinner as Radovid.
The official synopsis for season 4 is as follows:
“After the shocking, Continent-altering events that close out season three, the new season follows Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri who are faced with traversing the war-ravaged Continent and its many demons apart from each other. If they can embrace and lead the groups of misfits they find themselves in, they have a chance of surviving the baptism of fire and finding one another again.”
New cast members of The Witcher Season 4
Here’s a list of the new cast members joining The Witcher in Season 4:
- Liam Hemsworth as Geralt of Rivia
- Laurence Fishburne as Regis
- Danny Woodburn as Zoltan Chivay
- Linden Porco as Percival Schuttenbach
- Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart
- James Purefoy as Stefan Skellen
- Eve Ridley as Nimue
- Clive Russell as Stribog
- Edmund Kingsley as Jocephus of Muroc
- Jack Myers as Roderick de Wett
- Andrew French as Rispat la Pointe
- Gary Oliver as Marshal Vissegerd
- Rowan Polonski as Nazarian
- Christopher Sciueref as Ceallach
- Aaron Zicman as Young Cahir
- Leanne Ho as Young Milva
- Joanna Zorian as Nikita
- Patrice Naiambana as Lupus
- Gareth David-Lloyd in an unknown role
- Joelle Rae in an unknown role
- Esme Lonsdale in an unknown role
What is the release date for The Witcher Season 4?
As of June 2025, Netflix still hasn’t made any significant announcements regarding The Witcher Season 4. We don’t know the release date, we don’t even know a release window. It’s only alluded that the release date will be sometime in 2025, and that window was reiterated at the Netflix Upfronts. There have been no signs of a delay until 2026, although we are literally halfway into the year.
Don’t forget that The Witcher season 5 is also on the way, which will close out (hopefully with a bang rather than a whimper) the franchise on Netflix. Production got underway earlier in 2025.
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Rating: TV-MA
