Coming from The Witcher Franchise, The Witcher Sirens of the Deep is a new upcoming animated series following our grumpy hero. This new series is predicted to be released by Netflix since it is a Netflix original on February 11th, 2025. The two main characters are Geralt and Jaskier, who begin their adventure, as shown in the trailer, sitting by a campfire. They eat and talk, with Jaskier convincing Geralt to socialize with other people again, specifically for love. The rest of the trailer hints at the context of his new job, which is located in a place between the land and sea.
The Witcher Saga
Before diving into the new ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘ series, it’s important to first recap the basic information of the setting and characters. The franchise began as a book series of fantasy short stories following the Witcher called Geralt of Rivia, titled ‘The Witcher Saga‘. It was written by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski and technically began in 1994 before receiving English translations. The novels are based heavily on Polish fantasy mixed with modern culture yet stray away from the stereotypical dark fantasy. Yes, it has monsters and fighting, but there is far more in-depth information about how gray the world is.
Graphic novels of Sapkowski’s work were created in 1993, which soon led to more comics being created. The first Witcher film was internationally titled ‘The Hexer‘. Both for the first movie and TV that were released in 2001 and 2002. The first game based on The Witcher was a pen-and-paper roleplay game before a computer version was developed in 2007. The video game branch for the franchise began developing ever since that year, and more films followed about The Witcher.
The popular Netflix series, The Witcher, which caused many to become more familiar with the franchise, began in 2019 and has three seasons. It helped to establish the world setting, fantasy, and characters for non-reader fans. Next was a movie made in 2021 titled, ‘The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf,’ an animated prequel to the live-action series. After that was the miniseries, ‘The Witcher: Blood Origin,’ made in 2022, live-action and a prequel, taking place 1,200 years before the Netflix 2019 series. Thus, finally, the next film to be added to the franchise, ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘, is based on one of the original Witcher novels.
The Witcher Sirens of the Deep
This animation series, ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep,’ takes place in the same universe as the Netflix series. It revolves around the two characters, Geralt of Rivia and Jaskier the Bard. Geralt has been hired to investigate and help protect against attacks happening in the seaside villages. Upon being there, he begins to learn that the attacks have to do with an old conflict between the humans of the villages and the merfolk. There are threats of war being broken out between the two, so he has to quickly figure out how to resolve the conflict before it escalates to that.
As one can guess from the title, trailer, and description, there will be themes of the sea and sea folk in this animation. ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘ will be unlike the previous films before, as most fantasy-based creatures were land dwellers. The voice actor for Geralt in ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘, will be Doug Cockle. He was the same voice actor for Geralt in the video game series, and he is also excited to be voicing Geralt fighting people and merfolk in the new film. The official trailer with his special message on the new animation is on Netflix’s YouTube channel.
More From Netflix
Many videos can be found on YouTube about ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘, but they are all snippets that give no more information than the official trailer. In Netflix’s Tudum article about ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘, they explain the plot more. The premiere date is clearly stated to be February 11th, 2025, with the story taking place in a new place on the continent. ‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep‘ will show a new place and expand the world of The Witcher universe.
The voice actors starring in the series will be Doug Cockle, along with other stars from the live-action Witcher series. Batey will be starring, along with Anya Chalotra for Yennefer of Vengerberg. There will be a newcomer joining the universe as well, Christina Wren. She will voice a new character in the upcoming animation, Essi Daven.
The article also states clearly that it is not a sequel, as it takes place during season one of Netflix’s 2019 The Witcher. The book that the plot is based on in The Witcher Saga is the short story called “A Little Sacrifice.” However, the writers for the film adaptation will be Mike Ostrowski and Rae Benjamin. The one who will be directing the film adaptation is Kang Hei Chul, the storyboard artist for The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf. Lastly, the animation studio responsible for this upcoming film is Studio MIR, who was also responsible for animating a previous Witcher film.
Conclusion
‘The Witcher Sirens of the Deep’ is an upcoming animation series based on a short story from Sapkowski’s The Witcher Saga. It is currently in development with many planned voice actors from the 2019 The Witcher live-action film, including the original voice of Geralt from the video game franchises. The film will debut next year in the spring, with more worldbuilding of the Witcher universe. There will be new characters and mythical creatures coming to the screen, with many trusted and experienced people working on this project.
