Fans agree Liam Hemsworth ‘looks pretty good as Geralt’ in Netflix’s The Witcher season 4 teaser

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15 Sep 2025, 16:31 · TechRadar

Features By Tom Wardley published 15 September 2025

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Netflix have dropped the first teaser trailer for the upcoming fourth season of The Witcher, giving us our first proper look at new leading man Liam Hemsworth.

With the new season set to drop at the end of October, it’ll arrive almost three years to the day since it was announced that the show would be returning without Henry Cavill, the original Geralt of Riva, with rumors back then citing that the known fan of the books was unhappy with the show’s creative direction.

At the time, fans saw Cavill’s departure as somewhat of a tragedy – he really did seem the perfect choice for the role. However, three years on, depending which church of nerdom you prescribe to, freeing the former-Superman up for the likes of Prime Video’s upcoming Warhammer and Highlander projects, both of which Cavill has significant creative involvement in, can only be a good thing.

But Hemsworth is left with big shoes to fill as the new face of one of the best Netflix shows, but judging by the new teaser clip – which you can watch just below – he might’ve nailed it. The first thing to notice is that he’s not trying to ape Cavill’s take on Geralt, if anything Hemsworth’s version of the eponymous monster hunter is close to a certain familial Asguardian.

While the clip doesn’t reveal any of the new cast members or story details, it does give us a tense supernatural smackdown, with Netflix giving us this rundown: “In the scene, Geralt (Hemsworth) faces a wraith – a ghostly, vengeful spirit. Geralt’s sword proves useless against the spectral foe, so he uses his Witcher Signs: first Aard (to blast it back), then Yrden (to trap it in a magical cage). With the wraith immobilized, Geralt reaches into its chest and crushes the dark, glowing mass at its core, causing the wraith to dissipate into black dust.”

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In terms of those new cast members, the most exciting addition is Laurence Fishburne, who is set to play favorite barber-surgeon Regis. Meanwhile, Sharlto Copley, James Purefoy, and Danny Woodburn also join the cast as bounty hunter Leo Bonhart, Nilfgaardian spy Skellen, and fan-favorite dwarven individual Zoltan respectively.

And it’s not just season 4 we have to look forward to, with Hemsworth also on board for a fifth and final season, with these two outings very much designed to form one epic conclusion. “One of the things we always say is that it wouldn’t be The Witcher if everything ended happily,” says showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich “This is the beginning of a two-season journey for our family to finally reunite and be together – hopefully forever.”

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