Netflix’s ‘The Witcher’ Set Video Leak Showcases Nilfgaardian Armor - Sensationalist Headlines

I don't want to rain on anyone's parade but Frank Herbert advised on Lynch's Dune and he absolutely loved the vision for the movie he approved about 8 hours of film, that got shot down real quick by the studio, so they had to butcher it in editing, which is what led to the disappointing drivel we got even the most 'on' creator with an ironclad story can slip up when his work is translated into another medium, something tells me Sapkowski wouldn't be too bothered by any major changes and Netflix wouldn't think twice about ignoring any veto

Which is a fair take, but in this case, since Sapkowski has been burned on adapatations in the past (the Metropolis Witcher game, The Hexer) combined with his general attitude towards adaptations never really being able to live up to the source material, his involvement I think speaks a bit more in this case.

I would've figured that would count against this adaptation, sort of roll into a "it'll be shit either way so fuck this" defeatist attitude, but you may be right about that

For shits and giggles lets break down that Waypoint interview that PCGamesN quoted Literature and video games are like East and West. There's nothing wrong with adapting books into a different medium, but you can't say that it's all in the same boat. That it all started with a comic book, then came the TV show, then a film and then a book. And that all of it fits together. Bullshit." Doesn't think adaptations ever fit together, consistent with earlier statements "A video game serves a different purpose," Sapkowski tells me. "It works differently. How much substance can there be in the lines of text when the hero walks through the woods and talks to a squirrel? Where's the literature in that? Where's the room for depth or sophisticated language with which games could elevate culture? There's none." I don't entirely agree with him here - although I think part of this comes down to understanding literature as more than a plot. Game narratives and book ("literature") narratives serve different purposes. They are written differently for different purposes. A games narrative and writing shouldn't be like a books. So up to there I agree with him. Where I disagree with him is the last statement, but this I think comes down to how you construe it. "sophisticated language" to me sounds like he's talking about prose, and in games you probably don't want much, if any, standard sort of prose. So in that sense I'd agree, in games there isn't room for the same kind of cultural writing as in books. I don't agree with his final conclusion, but up to that point it's about the disconnect in how the two mediums are written. You're not going to get the "Cetacean" chapters from Moby Dick in a game, something like that wouldn't work well in a video game, while it works well in literature. "I have nothing against the game itself. I think it's a high-level product. All the benefits CDPR received for it are absolutely well-earned. I have nothing against video games in general. I have nothing against the people who play them, even if I don't and never will," Sapkowski says. "The whole animosity started when the game began to spoil my market." How are some of them supposed to know—especially in Germany, Spain or the US—that my books are not game related? That I'm not writing books based on games? They may not know that, and CDPR bravely conceals the game's origins. It's written in fine print, you need a microscope to see it, that the game is 'based on' [my books]." So again, this isn't really hating the games, but rather, the perception that the books are based off the games. "The belief, widely spread by CDPR, that the games made me popular outside of Poland is completely false. I made the games popular. All of my translations in the West—including the English one—were published before the first game." While I'm not sure about if CDPR ever spread that belief, he's not wrong in that the translations of the books in the West were at least starting to be published before the first game. And those decisions were made independently of the game existing or not.

That's the worst looking thing I've ever fucking seen.

Shouldn't have demanded a shitty deal and then tried to sue over his own stubborn idiocy Maybe then people would trust him at his word!

CD Projekt approached him, on the heels of the failed Metropolis game, and the awful Hexer. They're the ones that gave him the option for a lump sum, or the royalties. He even praised them in 2012 for giving him the two options, as he feels that sort of thing is rare. At the time, coming off of a game that didn't even finish development and an awful tv show/movie, the lump sum was the smart option. adaptations had not been kind to The Witcher up to that point. He never demanded "a shitty deal". And furthermore, under Polish law, his suit was entirely valid. He was backed up both by previous rulings by polish courts and polish law. Seems in Poland you're not stuck with a shitty contract forever.

sapkowski is agreeing to everything because he doesnt care and wants to get it over with as fast as possible and make as much money as he can.

With all the fog we've seen, it is entirely possible that all shots of Nilfgaardians this season are going to be nearly completely obscured. All the other costumes look between good and great, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt. We were probably never meant to see this.

Lol, GoT looks better, but there’s a fuckload of poop in there as well.