Netflix's Witcher - Season 2 Nilfgaard Armors Will be „Totally Different”
Lauren S. Hissrich, the showrunner of The Witcher series, convinces that its second season will bring about a fundamental change in the appearance of the Nilfgaardian armors. Besides, she has shed some light on the mystery about how the work on the set of The Witcher looks today.
The controversial armor of Nilfgaardian soldiers was one of those elements in the first season of Netflix's The Witcher that pained the eyes of many viewers extremely hard. Lauren S. Hissrich, the showrunner of the series, recently took part in a podcast from the Writer Experience series, in which she argued that Geralt's new adventures will bring about a fundamental change in this subject (via Redanian Intelligence), and that the armor of the "black army" will look "totally different" than before. We've only one question, namely why wasn't this done before?
Niflgaard armor (but not only) to be redone
Well, the showrunner doesn't hide the fact that both she and the rest of the creators made a lot of mistakes in the production of the first season of The Witcher. As he says:
"It [the work on season 2 - editorial note] is a chance to look at the mistakes we’ve made in season one and do it better,"
However, it is not only about the armor of Nilfgaard soldiers, but also about other elements which did not work out as they should in the adaptation of Sapkowski's stories. So what can Hissrich and his team improve now?
(...) tell stories better, improve some things, look at what didn’t work, get rid of it and start over.”
To conclude the topic of problems with the first season of The Witcher, it is worth reminding that Tomasz Baginski, the executive producer of the series, also spoke in a similar tone at the time. He also argued that by working on the second season, his team is already in a much better position.
Behind the scenes of The Witcher
The armors of the "black" were not the only subject Hissrich spoke about. The showrunner also revealed the current stage of production of the second season of The Witcher, and shed some light on "behind the scenes" of work on the set.
Like the first, the second season of The Witcher will consist of eight episodes, with a total of four directors working on them. The Redanian Intelligence website claims that the list of the latter includes Stephen Surjik, Edward Bazalgette and Sarah O'Gorman. O'Gorman's CV states that she will get two episodes, which leads us to a conclusion that the other names got a similar share. Especially since Hissrich revealed that the series is not shot on a linear basis - instead, the producers are working on two episodes at a time.
It is worth adding that before a person can sit on the director's stool, he or she has to go through a kind of training camp where they learn "everything they need to know about the story and stories we present, as well as who the witchers and the monsters are". Then the showrunner makes sure that the person behind the camera "understands the scripts, our intentions, goals and everything we are trying to do". Only then does Hissrich give the director a free hand, allowing "their creative vision to take control".
When the podcast was recorded, Lauren S. Hissrich had been in London for over two weeks, and The Witcher's second season was in pre-production. The film crew received 125 days to shoot, and although the show-runner has not concealed the fact that her team had more time to create the first season, she also admits that while working on the second, she has things a bit more under control.
According to the information obtained by Redanian Intelligence, the shooting of the second season of the Witcher is to start "any minute now", and Arborfield Studios in Londer is currently being transformed into Oxenfurt.
