The Witcher - The Last Wish

Ok then, so here is my first attempt at editing streaming content. As a fan of Sapkowski’s books for the last 23 years, I was anticipating this adaptation but was eventually disappointed by it. Too much unnecessary filler, pointless attempt to make Yennefer main character which she never was in the books, omitting things crucial to the story, logical errors, geographical errors, too many things to count… It can’t be fixed the way i would want it to be, but I could at least make it a little closer to my beloved books, at least first one of them, as the show later deviates from the books more and more, making the story unrecognizable (season 2 is a complete mess which I dont think can be fixed like the first one could).

So here’s a 2,5 hour long edit of episodes 1-5 of Netflix show. The goal was to keep it closer to the book, in a form of a few short stories presented one after another (there is no “The Voice of Reason” framing story as it was not in the show, and since “Grain of Truth” short story was changed in the show, and moved to season 2, it’s not present here either).

Geralt is the only main character here, we stay with him most of the time, there’s no Ciri (yet), and Yennefer shows up when Geralt meets her.
Episodes 2 and 3 were switched here for better flow, so Jaskier doesn’t disappear just after he is introduced. Because of that, prostitute’s line mentioning bard was cut.

There are also additional audio tracks (english and polish), re-scored with music from Witcher games soundtracks and “Hexer” TV show music by Grzegorz Ciechowski (which I consider to be the best witcher related music ever created), but for all those who enjoyed Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli’s work, there’s original audio track too.

I think this is as close to a proper adaptation of first Witcher book, as we can get with this material.

PS. The sequel will follow (based on episodes 6-8), but it won’t be that close to the corresponding book (“Sword of Destiny”) as more than half of it was completely omitted in the show.

Part 2 " Sword of Destiny" (based on episodes 6-8 of S1) also available.
Part 3, “Blood of Elves” (based on S2 and removing most of absurd Netflix inventions) in the works now, may be ready for xmas release.
Part 4 “Time of Contempt” (based on s3, it may end up as parts 4 & 5), scheduled for a next year release

Part 4 in the works - will be one 3 hours long movie. There are chances for easter release, but I dont promise anything.
As usual, re-scored audio will be available.

“Time of Contempt” is part 4 of Witcher fanedit project, that is meant to be closer to the books, and stripped of large amount of Netflix-fiction that makes the show practically unwatchable.

“Time of Contempt” is based on season 3 of Netflix show.

Several changes were made that include:

• almost complete re-score with music from Witcher games (including Gwent and Thronebreaker) and Hexer Tv show. Some AI extensions were done to some of the tracks to help fit them with the scenes, and some tracks got AI-remixes just to not be repeated in their original version over and over again.
• some dialogue lines were altered with the help of AI which made some additional changes possible.
• Teryn has just one scene and whole subplot with kidnapped girls and Stregobor being framed is gone
• Galatin is reduced to some random elf that appears in few scenes but isnt ever addressed by name
• Dijkstra and Philippa plotline is heavily trimmed down (just as many other secondary or episodic characters)
  -Radovid has just three scenes now and there’s no non-book romance with Jaskier obviously
• focus is mostly on Geralt and Ciri
• Yennefer role is reduced but she still has more to do here than she has in the book as it’s impossible to cut all Netflix-fiction concerning her character.
• Some book sequences were trimmed down (Ciri on the desert), as they were just boring, too long and stuffed with pointless additions (flashbacks)
• Thanedd was re-edited into chronological order even if the original episode structure was more like in the books, but I needed this sequence to be shortened.
• The whole Thanedd battle was trimmed here and there (for example - majority of Triss and Istredd scenes were removed).
• dryads in Brokilon are able to succesfully heal Geralt so Yen doesn’t show up there (and she doesnt have her narration/monologue at the end)
• I’ve decided to keep some cool non-book Geralt’s fight scenes.

And a LOT more of various changes.

Running time: 184 minutes, polish and english audio available.