![]() Had Netflix put people in charge of the show who were as passionate and knowledgeable about the source material as Henry Cavill, he might not be leaving the role. Given what a huge fan of that source material Cavill is, it’s not hard to put two and two together. A former writer/producer on the show recently publicly stated that some of his colleagues “actively disliked” the source material. As the show drifted further and further away from the source material, there were murmurings that Cavill was unhappy, and signs that the actor would like to hew closer to the character as he was originally written. This suggests to me that Cavill was already dissatisfied with the direction of the show before he was confirmed as Superman and had likely already put in notice before being given the go-ahead at Warner Bros/DC.Ĭavill is a huge fan of The Witcher books and video games. I’m so excited to tell a story with an enormously joyful Superman.” There is such a bright future ahead for the character. It’s amazing to be here now talking about it again. “The character means so much to me,” Cavill said in a recent interview about the Man of Steel. Granted, the British actor has been hoping to return to the role for some time now, but it seems likely he was at least one foot out The Witcher door when the Superman news came down. If they did, then Cavill’s decision to leave was known even earlier.Īll of this suggests-though doesn’t prove-that Cavill was planning to leave the role prior to getting the greenlight on Superman. We can also safely assume that the casting took some time-I doubt they had Hemsworth in their back pocket at this point. We can safely assume that there was some period between Cavill telling Netflix he was stepping down and the decision to carry on with the series and recast Geralt. His departure came alongside news that Geralt had already been recast as Liam Hemsworth. So when did Cavill decide to leave The Witcher? That’s a big question that we may never know the answer to. We can assume that this all came together within the last six to eight weeks. The Rock’s part of the scene was shot first and they edited it together in the hopes that Warner Bros would approve Cavill’s return, which only happened when The Rock went behind then-DCEU chief Walter Hamada’s back. The timeline is a bit murky here, but Cavill’s cameo in the mid-credits scene of Black Adam was only filmed a month ago. Because for us, the fans will always come first.” We can’t intelligently & strategically build out our DC Universe without the greatest superhero of all time. But for Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia & myself ‘no’ was never an option. “We fought for years to bring you back,” Johnson wrote on Instagram a week later. This came alongside Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s admission that he “fought for years” to bring Cavill back as Superman. “Thank you for your support and thank you for your patience. “I wanted to make it official: I am back as Superman,” Cavill posted to Instagram on October 24th. ![]() But news of his return to DC is very fresh. ![]()
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