I am not a giant Witcher fan however I’m a giant film and TV fan, so I attempt to preserve updated on all of the videogame-related movies and TV exhibits. A number of occasions per week, if not each single day, I scan the information, press releases, and leisure websites for any data about new game-related diversifications.So how on earth did I miss that there was an entire new dwell motion Witcher film. On Netflix. Starring Dolph Lundgren. And it got here out in October of this yr. It wasn’t simply me: a bunch of us at PC Gamer, film followers and Witcher followers alike, missed it too.It is known as The Rats: A Witcher Story, a feature-length particular that serves as a prequel to Season 4, and you may watch it proper now on Netflix—although judging from proof I am about to current, I am undecided Netflix actually desires you to.
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Exhibit A: Netflix did not do a heck of loads to inform individuals about this film. I get mail from Netflix in each my skilled and private inboxes, they usually despatched nothing about this particular. Zilch. I even have an account on a Netflix press website that has completely zero point out of it. Odd.Weirder nonetheless, I searched the official YouTube channel and there is not any trailer or perhaps a teaser for it. That strikes me as particularly weird: you produce and movie and edit a whole 1 hour 22 minute live-action Witcher film and do not even throw collectively a single 30-second teaser in your YouTube channel that has 32 million subscribers? I do know Dolph Lundgren is not precisely a Henry Cavill-sized draw, however he is—dare I say it—no less than a Liam Hemsworth-sized draw. When you marketed Lundgren as a Witcher, you’d on the very least get some curious eyes on it. And even when it stinks, absolutely you need individuals to observe it? Is not Netflix fairly openly eager on whole views above all different issues?The one try at consideration I can discover for The Rats: A Witcher Story is the one article on Netflix’s website I linked above, and I do not suppose they despatched it to anybody. Like, anybody in any respect. I discover no point out of it on Selection or Deadline or The Hollywood Reporter or any of the opposite ordinary leisure websites. A complete media blackout!That could possibly be why there’s however a single critic evaluate on Rotten Tomatoes. It is constructive, although! That is one thing! The 100+ viewers opinions, nonetheless, common out to a smelly 17%.Maintain updated with crucial tales and one of the best offers, as picked by the PC Gamer group.Anyway, it is simply bizarre for a film distributor to make an entire film and never inform anybody about it, so I assumed I would convey it to your consideration in case you wished to spend a while this vacation season consuming a brand new Witcher-related film that Netflix would not appear to need you to observe. When you do test it out (or have already), tell us within the feedback in case you appreciated it.
