{"id":26561,"date":"2022-12-03T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1750395"},"modified":"2022-12-03T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T20:46:07","slug":"the-witchers-jaskier-joins-blood-origin-prequel-as-trailer-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-witchers-jaskier-joins-blood-origin-prequel-as-trailer-is-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher\u2019s Jaskier joins Blood Origin prequel as trailer is revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lauren Morris\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Saturday, 03 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Michelle Yeoh takes on an \u201cunstoppable empire\u201d with her band of outcasts in the full-length trailer for Netflix\u2019s The Witcher: Blood Origin<\/a>, with Joey Batey reprising his role as Jaskier in the upcoming fantasy drama.<\/p>\n

The two-minute clip takes viewers back 1,200 years before the events of The Witcher<\/a>, when Chief Druid Balor (Lenny Henry) ruled the entire continent and the Elven civilisation was at the peak of its powers.<\/p>\n

In the trailer, we meet the seven warriors who are \u201cbound together\u201d on a blood quest to create the first prototype Witcher, led by Sophia Brown\u2019s \u00c9ile \u2013 a former Queen\u2019s guard warrior who becomes a travelling musician \u2013 and Michelle Yeoh\u2019s Scian, a sword elf on a mission to retrieve a blade that was stolen from her nomadic tribe.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to rise up,\u201d \u00c9ile says to a crowd before meeting vengeance-seeking warrior Fjall, played by Game of Thrones\u2019 Laurence O\u2019Fuarain.<\/p>\n<p>The pair team up to face the challenge ahead, which is caused by the monoliths creating tears between worlds and opening up a gateway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no coming back,\u201d Scian declares before she unleashes her sword skills on a group of attacking soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer also teases an appearance from Joey Batey, who joined the The Witcher as Jaskier in 2019.<\/p> <p>The four-part series, which is one of the first spin-offs to come from The Witcher, also features Mirren Mack (Merwyn), Nathaniel Curtis (Br\u00edan), Dylan Moran (Uthrok One-Nut), Minnie Driver (Seanchai) and an array of other stars in its extensive cast.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix released a <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/the-witcher-spin-off-blood-origin-new-trailer-newsupdate\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">teaser trailer<\/a> for the prequel last month, with It\u2019s a Sin\u2019s Nathaniel Curtis telling <a href=\"\/\/radiotimes.com\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">RadioTimes.com<\/a> earlier this year that the project was <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/the-witcher-blood-origin-script-nathaniel-curtis-newsupdate\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">\u201csuch a beautiful thing to be a part of\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Witcher: Blood Origin arrives on Netflix on Christmas Day 2022.\u00a0<a title=\""https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/"\" href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. 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