Henry Cavill has told IGN that he'd be interested in the role of Geralt in Netflix's forthcoming adaptation of The Witcher

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Cavill has been pretty open in the past about his love of Skyrim and World of Warcraft. (Famously he ignored a call from Zack Snyder to tell him he'd won the role of Superman in 2013's Man of Steel because he was playing WoW.)So at a recent junket for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, IGN asked Cavill what he was busy playing these days."The Witcher 3. I just replayed all the way through," said Cavill. "Love that game. Really good game."With that in mind, we asked if he'd be interested in the role of Geralt in Netflix's adaptation. "Absolutely. Yeah, that would be an amazing role."Cavill also went on to reveal his love of the source material, Andrzej Sapkowski's series of fantasy novels. "The books are amazing," Cavill tells us. "The books are really, really good... The books I started reading, and they are well worth a read."The Witcher show was announced back in May 2017, with Netflix adapting Sapkowski's series of eight novels which in turn inspired the hugely-popular CD Projekt Red RPG games. Netflix appointed showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich, who has previously worked on West Wing, Daredevil, and The Defenders. The series has recruited writers who have also worked on the likes of Netflix's Jessica Jones and Amazon's The Tick, While we know the script for the pilot episode is finished , there has yet been no word on casting.Hissrich is currently scouting locations for the show, which is expected to be 8-episodes long and released in 2020 at the earliest.

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