Liam Hemsworth’s Geralt Rallies an Unlikely Crew to Save Ciri in First Full-Length The Witcher Season 4 Trailer

Steel flashes and magic crackles as the first full-length trailer for The Witcher season 4 drops, stoking hype ahead of its release next month.

The Witcher is back swinging a silver sword and swapping a face. Netflix just dropped the first season 4 trailer, and it leans straight into the action while giving Liam Hemsworth his big Geralt debut. Yes, this is the Hemsworth handoff season — and the footage wants you to know the White Wolf has not lost a step.

What the trailer actually shows

Laurence Fishburne shows up as Regis — and if you caught the fangs, you did not imagine it, he is a vampire — dropping gravelly life advice over shots of Geralt pulling steel on a fresh monster. The voiceover is laser-focused on Ciri: Geralt has dedicated himself to finding the person he thinks he failed, even as a warning slips in that she is not who she says she is. Geralt does not care. He is putting together a scrappy little squad and crossing the Continent to get to her anyway.

Yennefer, meanwhile, spells out the bigger problem: Vilgefortz is building an army, and Ciri is stuck at the center of it. The implied solution? Geralt needs his own army, and that apparently includes Regis. Inside baseball fans will clock the meta-layer here: even Regis calls out that the Witcher himself is changing.

'The Witcher is in a state of flux. You are becoming something new.'

So what is season 4 about?

Netflix's overview boils down to this: after the Continent-shaking mess at the end of season 3, Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri are split up by war and a pile of enemies. Their paths pull apart, their goals get sharper, and they pick up unexpected allies along the way. If they can actually accept these found families, they might fight their way back to each other — for good this time.

New faces, new threats

Beyond Hemsworth stepping in for Henry Cavill, the season brings in Fishburne as Regis and a couple of very book-familiar heavies: Sharlto Copley plays Leo Bonhart and James Purefoy is Stefan Skellen. If you know, you know.

• Premiere: October 30 on Netflix
• Episodes: 8
• New cast: Liam Hemsworth as Geralt, Laurence Fishburne as Regis, Sharlto Copley as Leo Bonhart, James Purefoy as Stefan Skellen
• Key players in the story: Geralt raising a team, Yennefer tracking Vilgefortz, Ciri caught in the middle