Wait, there was a brand new live-action Witcher film? Starring Dolph Lundgren? On Netflix? In October?

I am not an enormous Witcher fan however I’m an enormous film and TV fan, so I attempt to maintain updated on all of the videogame-related movies and TV reveals. A number of instances per week, if not each single day, I scan the information, press releases, and leisure websites for any information about new game-related variations.

So how on earth did I miss that there was a complete new stay 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 unsure Netflix actually desires you to.

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Exhibit A: Netflix did not do a heck of quite a bit to inform folks about this film. I get mail from Netflix in each my skilled and private inboxes, and so they despatched nothing about this particular. Zilch. I even have an account on a Netflix press web site that has completely zero point out of it. Odd.

Weirder nonetheless, I searched the official YouTube channel and there isn’t any trailer or perhaps a teaser for it. That strikes me as particularly weird: you produce and movie and edit a complete 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—at the least a Liam Hemsworth-sized draw. Should you marketed Lundgren as a Witcher, you’d on the very least get some curious eyes on it. And even when it stinks, certainly you need folks to observe it? Is not Netflix fairly overtly 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 web site 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 typical leisure websites. A complete media blackout!

That may very well be why there’s however a single critic evaluate on Rotten Tomatoes. It is optimistic, although! That is one thing! The 100+ viewers opinions, nevertheless, common out to a pungent 17%.

Anyway, it is simply bizarre for a film distributor to make a complete film and never inform anybody about it, so I believed I might deliver it to your consideration in case you needed to spend a while this vacation season consuming a brand new Witcher-related film that Netflix would not appear to need you to observe. Should you do test it out (or have already), tell us within the feedback if you happen to favored it.