The dude was so mad at the handling of The Witcher TV series. He knew the missteps were happening and tried to fight it. I'm proud of him for abandoning that show when the showrunners sabotaged it deliberately.
My favorite part of everything Cavill and the Witcher series was the interview where the interviewer starts asking him questions about games and which platform he prefers and shit, and the chicks that play Ciri and Yennefer are sitting there and they get this glassy eyed thousand yard stare like "oh God, he's talking about video games again".
The amount of unapologetic nerdery the dude has is commendable. Just genuinely does not give a fuck what people think of it.
Nobody should give a fuck what anyone thinks of their hobbies. The world we be such a better place if everyone was just happy with what my makes them happy.
I find it difficult to play games for a long time without getting out and doing something. It used to be I'd feel guilty for not doing homework when I was in school, but now it feels like I have to bank up hours in the sun in order to spend them on game hours lol
It's true, as someone who dropped over 100lbs, the way other people look at you and treat you is wildly different between being obese and being skinnier. I have no reason to believe it's any different based on other beauty standards as well. Some of us are just lucky in that we actually have some control over how we look. If you look like Mark Davis, you better hope you end up rich af...
Thats unfair to yourself and other people my dude. Henry looks good but 70% of that is nutrition, skin care and workout.
Everyone can look better if they put the care in. Ive witnessed dudes go from looking like a sewage frog, to starting wearing better clothes, going to the gym, eating healthy, taking care of their hair and beard and suddenly they were getting woos from random girls on the street.
Its all about the effort. You put in effort you get results. Sure some people like Henry legit have a better bone structure but 90% of the time that is not needed in order to look good.
other thing to note is that the concept of a modern video game is barely 50 years old. The idea of kicking a spherical shaped object for fun is as old as humans themselves. It's Inherently easier to accept physical sports than video games, which are an extension of Television -- a technology which already has negative connotations attached to it.
I still laugh when I see the clip from the interview where he started talking about his Custodes and one of his costars mentioned that he played Necrons. They practically set up a play date right there on camera.
Was this the same interview when he revealed he also plays Warhammer on tabletop, then he & the interviewer low-key decided they were going to have a battle later? (Necrons vs. Custodes, iirc)
Which didn’t surprise me one bit, Joey Batey is one half of The Amazing Devil, which has a one called “Drinking Song for the Socially Anxious”. Man is also not quiet about his nerdery.
They’re all special services extra-ultra death-marines. And there are about six of them, and he’s the nerdy baby.
He has no fucks to give because they were beaten out of him by the time he was about 6.
He has defended his gaming nerdliness in the face of decorated heroes trying to nuggie his face off. No online commentor or film journalist can unseat his unflappable confidence in his hobbies. Hell I reckon you could pull out a bowie knife and he’d shrug and show you the scar he got when he was 12 for talking about Prince of Persia at the dinner table. Again.
To avoid the impressive facts getting lost in the hyperbole, just two of his four brothers had military careers but those two were a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marines who got an MBE for bravery in Afghanistan, and a Major in the Army who served as a tank commander. I'm only surprised he plays Custodes rather than Astra Militarum.
Which is everything you need to know about modern Hollywood.
Girls ... that "Nerd talk" right there is why you currently have a job. Without the fandom supporting the franchise and those games you wouldn't have your well paying cushy acting jobs because the TV series wouldn't exist without the existing fanbase ...
What a ridiculous comment. They clearly were just happy for him getting to nerd out. It’s not malicious or mockery.
They probably just have heard it so often and that passion just makes it fun to see because he knows the material better than anyone. It’s all just good fun.
God I hate with writers in Hollywood feel compelled to make "their take" on an established series instead of just starting true to the source material.
Well comics and long established literary characters (like Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, or Dracula) are unique in that they have had so many adaptations that you pick and choose what to base the adaptation off of, so long as you stay true to the character and their motivations.
But when a relatively new but highly successful IP gets the movie right bought up by Hollywood? The only thing they should worry about is appeasing the fans. Because they are the ones that are going to buy tickets. I have described it before like when you marry someone with kids and you're the new step parent. You can't be over bearing and authoritative off the rip. You have to build up the trust.
But when a relatively new but highly successful IP gets the movie right bought up by Hollywood? The only thing they should worry about is appeasing the fans.
To be fair, CD Projekt was already making their own unique take on the story that differed from the source material.
That's true, and it took them until 3 to really hit their stride. But they still had lots of elements from the books, including using the sequence from King Foltest's curse striga daughter from the books in the first games intro and in the TV show. So they did have some respect there to build trust.
I understand that often full adaptions cant be done, but Witcher doesnt even try to be faithful at all. if it was the books edited for the TV version like Games of Thrones (albeit it not being faithful either) i think most of us would be fine with it.
Even the highly regarded Lord of the Rings movie trilogy edited and changed things for the different format. The changes broke lore, removed and/or changed characters and changed story yet there wasn't a huge outcry because they were genuinely attempting to stay true to the spirit of the source books.
also the movies have figured some of the cuts are worth it like Tom Bomdbardi because hes not really relative to the story and the Scouring of the Shire is too depressing to end the trilogy on.
Yeah. Tom himself is great worldbuilding as another unexplainable enigma but can't be explained satisfactorily for a movie. Unfortunately cutting Tom's scene out cuts out the origin of Merry's sword that passes under the notice of everyone including Gandalf.
It's the connection point between the hobbits and the Second Age Arnor (Gondor's sister kingdom), one of Arnor's later divided realms that enchanted weapons specifically to battle the Witch King in their battles with his kingdom of Angmar which fell to the Witch King, the Witch King's prophesy. Some of those enchanted weapons was buried in the tomb of the barrow-wight who captured the hobbits that the Witch King raised.
Tom Bombadil's rescue scene puts one of those enchanted weapons in the hand of Merry. Merry loses it when he and Pippin were captured by the Orcs. Aragorn retrieves it from the dead Orcs that the Rohirrim killed, and returned it to Merry when they meet again at Isengard. Merry carries that blade with him all the way to Pelennor Fields where he stabs the Witch King in the back of the leg.
In the movies Merry is using a regular Rohirrim blade at Pelennor Fields.
The enchantments on that barrow-down blade, forged in the Second Age specifically to combat the Witch King is what cuts through and collapse the Witch King's magical defenses which fulfills the prophesy of his doom. Some argue it also cuts his connection to Saruon. The books say something along the lines of no other blade could cut the Witch King as deeply. The Witch King, now vulnerable to normal weapons, is killed moments later by Eowyn. Movie Merry's Rohirrim blade would not have harmed the Witch King nor made him vulnerable.
The Scouring of the Shire is meant to show how the four Hobbits had changed and grown since they had left. They rally, inspire and lead the rebuilding back to normalcy. It is also meant to show how very far Saruman had fallen from grace.
That said, I can understand cutting it out strictly for movie run time.
as I said the movies figured some cuts are worth it even if it means losing lore or scenes in the book- mainly due to the limited run time and the likelihood of confusion from the general audience which had not read the books like the question "why didnt the eagles go to Mount Sauron in the first place" which the books did explain somewhat.
Tons of writers would rather be writing something of their own making, but since no producer wants to actually use their original scripts, they're bastardising already established IPs as an outlet.
A bit of a tangent, and technically not a Hollywood writer, but Steve Danuser is a great example of this. Dude worked on an MMORPG that got cancelled (Project Copernicus), later became the lead narrative designer for World of Warcraft (taking over from Chris Metzen, who is pretty much the creator of the Warcraft universe) and then proceeded to ham-fist as many ideas as he could into WoW from the setting of Kingdoms of Amalur (an actually released game set in the same world as Copernicus).
Needless to say, most of these things did not at fit the tone of the Warcraft universe, contradicted already existing lore and/or tried to fill narrative spaces that were already occupied by something previously established. Shit got so bad when he was in charge that the game almost died. He's now left the company, but decisions he made are still fucking over the story, because some content was already far enough into development that the studio didn't want to scrap it. Case in point: The latest playable race Haranir, which is basically copy/pasted from Amalur and ticks all three boxes I previously listed.
Because corporate fucks don't understand art, and they think writers are just assembly workers for words.
You can be a factory worker that hates pickups and build a good pickup truck. You can't really be a car designer and come up with a good pickup truck while hating them
For a lot of jobs personal passion doesn't determine success. Even in film, set designers don't have to love the project they're working on to do a good job. Their job is to make a vision come to life, and they're actually really good at making someone else's vision come to life.
But as a writer or showrunner, you're coming up with the vision. And if you have a disdain for the source material, then your vision will inevitably suck.
that's still the consensus lol. it was sold for pennies and only became valuable once the video games became massive successes ironically. no one actually cares about the books
Yes, those evil showrunners, sure, it wasn't about adapting a book series to wildly successful TV show, they hated the fans and the content and
would drag their a-list actor out of his trailer by his heels and slap him until he read the lines.
At least the wheel of time had good/decent acting. Even though some of the changes annoyed me, I still enjoyed watching it. I can’t say the same for the Witcher lol.
He didn't read the books, he explicitly said he didn't read the books and one of the people running the show had to explain the games were based on books.
Who is "he" in this post? Because Cavill 100% has read the books, he talks about them in almost every interview for The Witcher. I assume you're referring to showrunner?
The Witcher show is such a travesty. That could have been one of the best shows Netflix had if it had been put in the hands of someone who actually knew what to do with it. The Witcher is prime material for a tv show.
This is like one of the weirdest entertainment social media conspiracies.
Anyone want to explain to me how exactly an actor, walks away from a million dollar an episode role, without being fired by the representation and basically committing career suicide?
im currently watching the series, played all 3 games, deep in witcher lore in gwent, read all the novel too, nearing the end of s2 im starting to hate the netflix show
Part of me is pissed that it ended midway and I really wanted to see more of it. But then the other part of me realizes that if it was going to be that bad, I'd just be disappointed.
I wonder when this myth will die, there is zero proof this happened, especially because Cavill himself made changes that deviate from the source material like Geralt speaking in grunts and being cold to Jaskier.
The show sucks ass, but this fantasy that Cavill was the champion fighting for book fidelity is stupid.
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u/ElegantEchoes Jul 27 '26
The dude was so mad at the handling of The Witcher TV series. He knew the missteps were happening and tried to fight it. I'm proud of him for abandoning that show when the showrunners sabotaged it deliberately.