The cast of Netflix’s The Witcher talked with IGN about details of the adaptation, and how they chose what to focus on within the franchise for the upcoming series.
Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich specifically spoke about the books and original short stories.
“We’re all big fans of the books. We’re all big fans of the video games as well, but this is solely based on the books and that’s really where we drew our inspiration from – starting with the short stories,” Hissrich said.
When asked how they decided to focus the theme around the original stories, Hissrich elaborated, saying, “One of the first things that we did was basically tackle that question. Is do we want to do the short stories or do we want to do the saga, I mean, hopefully we have space and time to do it all.”
Source: IGN.com Why The Witcher Will Focus on the Original Short Stories