One of the very big changes is that after the departure of star Henry Cavill at the end of Season 1 of Season 3, we are moving towards Season 4 of Netflix's "The Witcher." Liam Hemsworth will take over the role of the title character, Libyan monster hunter Geralt, in the announced 4th and 5th seasons. 

"The Witcher" has consistently been one of Netflix's most popular shows, both the prequel series "The Witcher: Origins of Blood" and the animated film "The Witcher: Wolf's Nightmare."But changing the lead roles after 3 seasons is a dangerous move that could change the overall atmosphere of the show.

It still takes quite a while for fans of the fantasy series based on Andrzej Sapkowski's novel to see Hemsworth play the role. The show is confirmed to be wrapping up at the end of its final fifth season, where we know so far about "The Witcher" Season 4

Hemsworth's casting was announced in 2022-10, but before Season 3 premiered, the audience will have to wait for Geraldton to return. It could still take a while before he can see his debut as a player. Production for Season 4 has just started in 2024/4, and given the extensive location shooting and post-production effects work required for shows like "The Witcher," the season premiere is probably more than 1 year away. 

By comparison, Season 3 began production in 2022-4 and premiered in 2023-6, so if the show sticks to a similar schedule, "The Witcher" Season 4 should be released sometime in the summer of 2025.

The good news is that with Seasons 4 and 5 shooting in succession, the wait between Seasons 4 and 5 should not be as long as the wait for the previous season. It's even possible that Season 5 will premiere in late 2025 or early 2026, but the summer of 2026 seems to be a stronger possibility.

It's hard to call the video Netflix released for "The Witcher" season 4 a trailer, but while it gives viewers a first glimpse of Hemsworth in the role of Geralt and no hint of what Geralt or anyone else will do for the new season, the clip offers about 30 seconds.

Hemsworth is the most important addition to the cast of "The Witcher" Season 4, as he looks to the camera at the end to make the costume, makeup and hair designer look almost eerie like the Geralt version of Cavill. But there are also some other big names. Laurence Fishburne plays Regis, a character familiar to readers of "The Witcher" novels and players of the very popular "Witcher" video game. He is a barber and surgeon who holds some secrets and begins to get entangled with Geralt in the new season.

Other new additions this season include Shalt Copley as bounty hunter Leo Banhart, James Purefoy as Court Adviser and Spy Skelen, and Danny Woodburn as Dwarf Zoltan. They join a cast of already vast characters that spread across the vast world of continents. 

This is the official breakdown of the full cast of Netflix's "The Witcher" season 4.

With the announcement of "The Witcher" ending after the fifth season, Netflix confirmed that the last two seasons will cover all of the remaining novels of Sapkowski's original "The Witcher Saga". It's a lot of material, and there's a lot more to take for each season than the show was previously crammed into individual seasons.

Series creator and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hisslich has also been deprived of his freedom by Sapkowski's work, which is one of the reasons Kabir is rumored to have left the show.1 Therefore, the story of "The Witcher" will come to a conclusion at the end of the 5th season, but it may take a very different route from the novel.

For now, there are plenty of plot elements for the "Witcher" to pick up from the end of season 3. Geralt sets out on a mission to save Ciri (Freya Allan), who has found her own new ally with a group of young exiles known as rats. She's also giving up the power she had before, which may or may not come back in the new season. Geralt added support to his efforts to track down Ciri, thanks to bard Jaskier (Joey Batey) and archer Milva (Meng'er Zhang), who joined with him at the end of season 3.

"This is the beginning of what [the book's] fans know as Hansa. It's a group that travels with Geralt for the rest of the book. This will be his new family," Schmidt Hisslich told Netflix's Chudam. "So, we start to see Hanza's build and see that there's an amazing emotional connection there as well."