Henry Cavill valgte for noget tid siden at trække sig fra rollen som Geralt of Rivia i Netflix' meget, meget populære Witcher-serie. Præcis hvorfor vides ikke, det kan være at han på daværende tidspunkt troede at han skulle til at dedikere mere tid til Superman-rollen, eller at han skal bruge mange ressourcer på hans kommende Warhammer 40K-projekter sammen med Amazon.
Men lige meget hvad, så placerede det showet i dybe vanskeligheder, og selvom at de vælger at fortsætte med Liam Hemsworth ved roret fra fjerde sæson og fremefter, så kunne det lige så vel havde været et dødsstød. I et interview med TotalFilm fortæller showrunner Lauren Hissrich, at de overvejede at droppe hele Witcher efter Cavills exit.
I sidste ende valgte de dog at fortsætte:
"I mean, we considered the choice to have Geralt exit and to end the show. [But] that's not something that we were willing to do. There's just too many stories left to tell. Likewise, if we replaced Geralt with another Witcher, we would be going fully away from the books, and I don't think that's what anyone wanted either."
Hun siger desuden at hun er spændt på at se Hemsworth i rollen, og pointerer at han har noget at leve op til:
"We're all excited about Liam coming in. He's got enormous shoes to fill, but also has a lot of energy and a lot of excitement for it. It's obviously a brand-new chapter for us. And there's a lot of feelings involved. But at the end of the day, we love what we're doing. So we're gonna keep going."