Avoiding spoilers as a fan of a TV show, movie, or game is becoming increasingly hard in our ever more interconnected world, but the same goes for the developers of those properties trying to maintain that secrecy too. Fortunately for fans of The Witcher series and its upcoming show, the creators are taking anti-spoiler-tactics seriously to avoid everything being ruined before we've even seen in the first episode.
Set to debut in 2020 on Netflix, The Witcher series will take a leaf out of the book of shows like Game of Thrones, and offer a gritty, high-budget, adventure series set in a medieval world with some fantastical elements. But what the creators don't want is all of their exciting ideas leaking out into the public eye years before the first episode has even shown.
With that in mind, series creator Lauren Schmidt Hissrich has a special technique for stopping those spoilers during the next step of development: the casting process.
It's Friday night in LA, and it's been a seriously great week here at #Witcher.
So.
Let's talk casting. Yes, I said the magic word! Casting is starting soon, and no, I can't tell you who our top picks are so don't ask. But. There is something very important you need to know. pic.twitter.com/9dfkhBIyo0— Lauren S. Hissrich (@LHissrich) June 23, 2018
Normally, she said, casting involves actors reading off lines from the pilot script. But with an international cast, that could mean emailing key scenes to people who may not get the part. That's no good when it comes to maintaining secrecy around a plot, so they're crafting fake scenes just for the casting process.
That means that if Witcher "spoilers" appear online in the next few weeks, they may be legit, but they won't affect the show whatsoever.
