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Former Witcher Star and Lord of Handsomeness Henry Cavill Out from Superman, in with Warhammer

You may not know the name Henry Cavill, but you probably recognize his face. He’s the incredibly handsome man who is most famous for playing Superman. Recently he played Geralt in Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher, and ragequit what he initially described as his dream job when that godawful show was starting. Fans made a petition to bring him back, but what’s done is done.

After all, Cavill was picking up right where he left off with his Superman role, right?

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… new Superman actor!

In October, DC Studios announced that Suicide Squad director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran would be taking over the studio, serving as co-chairmen and chief executive officers. Now, Gunn has announced one of the studio’s first projects: a new Superman film — one that won’t star Henry Cavill.

Gunn revealed on Twitter that he is currently writing a new Superman movie and plans to cast another actor in the role. Cavill confirmed the news on his Instagram.

Let’s take a look at those tweets, by James Gunn.

This all happened after Cavill was promised that he was coming back to DC to play Superman and told to make a public statement for DC. 

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Cavill, sources say, did not have a deal in place to return as Superman, only a verbal agreement that the studio would develop future projects.

Another goy gets fucked by (((Hollywood))). It’s not clear to me if this was the typical over promising done by these types, or if this was a coordinated attack on Cavill. What is clear is that James Gunn and Cavill appear to have two very different impressions of their meeting together. Remember that last tweet of his screencapped above? The one where he said:

But we just had a great meeting with Henry and we’re big fans and we talked about a number of exciting possibilities to work together in the future.

That sounds cheery and optimistic. Let’s check in with Henry Cavill and see how he’s feeling about all this. I’m sure he’ll be excited about these future projects.

Henry Cavill’s Instagram:

I have just had a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran and it’s sad news, everyone. I will, after all, not be returning as Superman. After being told by the studio to announce my return back in October, prior to their hire, this news isn’t the easiest, but that’s life. The changing of the guard is something that happens. I respect that. James and Peter have a universe to build. I wish them and all involved with the new universe the best of luck, and the happiest of fortunes.

For those who have been by my side through the years….we can mourn for a bit, but then we must remember…. Superman is still around. Everything he stands for still exists, and the examples he sets for us are still there! My turn to wear the cape has passed, but what Superman stands for never will. It’s been a fun ride with you all, onwards and upwards.

Henry Cavill is acting like someone just murdered his puppy. The fans don’t appear too pleased either.

First, James Gunn says that it’s not an origin movie, which means there is no reason not to cast Henry Cavill. They just want a younger actor for… reasons.

Henry Cavill, an avid gamer who looks like a Greek God, was probably the most qualified man on earth to play Superman. Most actors honestly just play themselves, and the guy is a jacked nerd who plays tons of PC games and is a huge Warhammer Enjoyer. Hell, the guy literally posts his Warhammer figurines on his Instagram, something I saw while looking for his statement on his Superman firing.

Couple that with his numerous outdoor fitness posts and he’s basically Alex McNabb if only he were handsome.

Honestly, Superman is garbage and always has been. It’s for the best that Cavill leave that project, although it still annoys me that they’re doing this to him. It also annoys me that the talentless Globo Homo hacks responsible for Netflix’s The Witcher are whining about him on a recent podcast. Someone made the transcript which you see below.

In short, it tries to reframe him desperately trying to save the abomination of the show and getting increasingly fed up with the incompetent wahmens running the operation as him being a Misognistic Gamer Bro. They even call him a video game addict who had the audacity to *gasp* not simply roll over for the incompetent wahmens who were destroying The Witcher. To be clear, he has never been accused of any sexual misconduct of any kind. And this is the first time anyone is even suggesting he was late for meetings.

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Considering the end of Cavil’s time as Superman following the news that he will not be returning to play The Witcher for Netflix after Season 3, that’s two major franchises the actor is no longer part of. The situation prompted Bly Manor  actor Rahul Kohli to tweet a joke that he and Cavill should just go make a Warhammer movie or series, knowing of Cavill’s well known love of the IP. At the time, it was a joke, but now Kohli is laughing at his own joke following the news that Cavill is part of a new Warhammer series –

 for Amazon.

Amazon’s making Warhammer?

This is the studio that butchered Wheel of Time and the Lord of the Rings. So Cavill, who just finished watching his dream role get turned into a nightmare with The Witcher, seems set to have this done to him yet again.

Henry Cavill Instagram:

For 30 years I have dreamt of seeing a Warhammer universe in live action. Now, after 22 years of experience in this industry, I finally feel that I have the skill set and experience to guide a Warhammer Cinematic Universe into life. Partnering with Natalie Viscuso at Vertigo has been a blessing beyond words, without her we might not have found the perfect home at Amazon. And having a home like Amazon will give us the freedom to be true to the massive scope of Warhammer. To all of you Warhammer fans out there, I promise to respect this IP that we love. I promise to bring you something familiar. And I endeavour to bring you something fantastic that is, as of yet, unseen.

Our first steps are to find our Filmmaker/Creator/Writer. Watch this space, my friends.

For The Emperor!

That they don’t have the writer/director for the whole thing decided as of yet, and he seems to have some input, gives me the tiniest amount of hope that this project might not be complete ass. Even still, Cavill would have to turn himself into the World’s best politician to fight against (((Jennifer Salke))) and Amazon Studios and do something in the Warhammer universe worthy of the name.

I’m not holding my breath. Hollywood exists for propaganda. They’re not letting you get a non-gay Warhammer.

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Fans of The Witcher Sign Petition to Have Henry Cavill Skin Lauren Hissrich Alive and then Eat her Heart

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It has been a trying few days for Netflix subscribers who are fans of The Witcher. Less than two weeks ago, lead Henry Cavill let viewers know that he was “laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4” (meaning that the upcoming third season of the fantasy hit would be his last portraying the monster-fighting Geralt of Rivia) and announced that Liam Hemsworth was already on board to take up the mantle. As you might imagine, many are not happy that he’s left the show, and now they’ve called out Netflix in a new petition that’s already racked up well over 100,000 signatures.

One hundred thousand signatures? Those are rookie numbers, and currently we’re well over 160,000 angry Netflix Enjoyers who want to hook Lauren Hissrich up to the masturbation machines and turn her into a bar of soap.

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Andrzej Sapkowski himself said about Henry Cavill: “I was more than happy with Henry Cavill’s appearance as The Witcher, he’s a real professional. Just as Viggo Mortensen gave his face to Aragorn, so Henry gave his to Geralt and it shall be forever so.”

Henry isn’t leaving The Witcher because of Superman, Netflix executives have once again made a grave decision against delivering for their fans. The reason why The Witcher is such a popular show is the fans’ love of the source material of books and games, that are hated by and have actively been mocked by the writers and showrunner. Henry Cavill is one of those big fans, he knows all of it inside out and wanted to stay true to Sapkowski’s world, which is why Netflix wants to replace him.

But if that’s why Netflix wants to replace him, then why are you petitioning them?

If you don’t know the backstory read this. The long and short of it is that Netflix’s adaptation of The Witcher is absolute dogshit. It’s unwatchably bad, and in the second season they stopped trying to adapt the books and started going whole hog on the fan fic, Rafe Judkins style. Henry Cavill was a big fan of the source material, but the writers and producers openly mocked the material, so, despite him being unanimously considered the only bright spot on the show, and fighting hard for the role, he ragequit the entire production.

Let us show them in pure numbers (and thus lost money, because that’s all they really care about) that none of us Witcher fans will stand with them and will abandon the show (and potentially our subscriptions) after The Witcher season 3 is concluded. Netflix can only exist because all of us pay them monthly to produce content that is entertaining for us, unfortunately all public information points towards a production team making decisions that are completely opposite to the fans’ – our – interests.

You think Netflix gives a shit about the bottom line?

Big Businesses are big invariably because they have unfair advantages due to their large size. They don’t have to obey the market, they can dictate to the market what will be. This is most obvious when corporations like twatter and YouTube outright censor people, actively destroying a part of their own audience. They can do that because they are natural monopolies, which is another way of saying corporate dictatorships.

But I’m beginning to believe that the sheer amount of hot garbage that Hollywood puts out is an even better example of corporate dictatorship. Nobody likes this shit. Nobody asked for these incompetent retards, from The Witcher, to Kangz of Power, to The Wheel of Time, to you name it. These people are not talented, and have shitty and repulsive politics. And yet, despite this, and despite their projects failing, Hollywood keeps on, with not a single fuck given. I hope some percentage of the people who signed this petition stop and think about why Netflix would do something so unpopular.

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Henry Cavill Ragequits Netflix’s Godawful The Witcher Show

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Henry Cavill won’t be starring in Season 4 of Netflix’s “The Witcher.”

The streaming titan announced via Twitter on Saturday that the fantasy drama will be returning without Cavill.

After the third season debuts, Liam Hemsworth will step in for Season 4 to take over the lead role as Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter for hire.

“It’s official: The Witcher is returning for Season 4, and Henry Cavill will be handing his swords to Liam Hemsworth as the new Geralt of Rivia after Season 3. Welcome to the Witcher family, @LiamHemsworth!” the show’s official page wrote on Twitter. 

I haven’t watched Netflix’s godawful adaptation of The Witcher, other than a few scenes that were so over the top with terrible dialogue and worse acting that it was physically painful to finish. There’s random mystery meats, usually black people, shoved in everywhere as a fuck you to Whitey, and they made Yennefer a Brown chick. Even aside from that, the people responsible for making the adaptation are objectively incompetent, and failed at basic storytelling despite already having the story written for them.

From earlier in the video above than the part I started from.

Because each hour long episode is split between three plots, that means that, on average, they have about twenty minutes to adapt the stories that, if they were faithfully adapted, would take about 50 minutes, or even more than the whole hour to do so. So they had to ask, what should be cut for the sake of time? It is an impossible question, and the reason is because if there are totally unnecessary chunks of the story, and nothing is lost because of their removal, then that story is written poorly in the first place because it had wholly redundant segments, which means it had a lousy story structure.

However, The Last Wish wasn’t written badly as every story is structured pretty well, and every moment does a great job of complementing all the other moments from the story, just like any well told story should. So here’s the dilemna they face, every part of the story is necessary to tell that story to its fullest. For every element they take out, the story will be worse for it. So, how can they take out around 50% of these elements?

Yennefer. She’s Indian now.

The people responsible for this adaptation are so idiotic that they gave themselves a self-imposed handicap of shoving three different short stories into a single hour long episode. Why did they do this? Because they’re gay retards, that’s why. Same reason why the Rangz of the Kangz writers failed so hard and so completely. Same reason Wheel of Time is such hot garbage. Incompetent dipshits being given free reign because they have AIDS does not make for a watchable product, even when given excellent source material.

You’d think, if they wanted three different POV characters, that they could just dedicate entire episodes to one single storyline or POV character. That would be the obvious solution, but I’ve learned to never underestimate the ability of incompetent and egotistical people to make head scratchingly dumb decisions out of absolutely nowhere.

Speaking of Rangz of the Kangz, I spent some time scouring the anus of the internet is Reddit while writing up my series on the show. While there I saw a few posts favourably referencing The Witcher. Even amongst the reddit troons, the adaptation is far from universally well received, but the one thing that everyone agrees on is that Henry Cavill is a perfect casting choice for Geralt of Rivia. It helped that he seemed legitimately enthusiastic and committed to his role.

Cavill also released a statement on social media, calling Hemsworth “fantastic” while sharing that he is “passing the torch” to the Australian actor. 

“My journey as Geralt of Rivia has been filled with both monsters and adventures, and alas, I will be laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4,” Cavill wrote on Instagram.

Let’s take a look at his instagram post directly.

Henry Cavill’s Instagram:

Some news to share from The Continent…

My journey as Geralt of Rivia has been filled with both monsters and adventures, and alas, I will be laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4. In my stead, the fantastic Mr Liam Hemsworth will be taking up the mantle of the White Wolf. As with the greatest of literary characters, I pass the torch with reverence for the time spent embodying Geralt and enthusiasm to see Liam’s take on this most fascinating and nuanced of men.

Liam, good sir, this character has such a wonderful depth to him, enjoy diving in and seeing what you can find.

Why would someone who seemed so outrageously enthusiastic about playing Geralt of Rivia turn down additional seasons of The Witcher? 

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Beau DeMayo, a former producer and writer on The Witcher, has claimed that some writers on the Netflix series “actively disliked” Andrzej Sapkowski’s books and CD Projekt Red’s games.

As reported by The Direct, DeMayo recently participated in a Q&A on his Instagram Stories where he discussed his role as showrunner on the upcoming X-Men ’97 Disney+ series. Speaking about how he assembled the production team for the project, he revealed that those involved “HAD to be a fan” of the material — because that hasn’t always been his experience.

“I’ve been on show – namely Witcher – where some of the writers were not or actively disliked the books and games (even actively mocking the source material),” DeMayo explained. “It’s a recipe for disaster and bad morale. Fandom as a litmus test checks egos, and makes all the long nights worth it. You have to respect the work before you’re allowed to add to its legacy.”

DeMayo served as a co-producer on two episodes of The Witcher’s first season and penned another story in the eight-episode block before returning as a writer on the second episode of Season 2. He didn’t mention any names and with several changes on the writing team each season, it’s unclear who he is taking aim at and whether those people remain on board.

Showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich originally underscored the importance of the books and the original short stories when crafting The Witcher for Netflix. “We’re all big fans of the books,” she said. “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.”

Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

The IGN piece referenced above dropped just a few days ago, and may have impacted his decision. We can clearly see that either Beau DeMayo or Lauren Schmidth Hissrich are lying. She says everyone she brought in loved the books, while he says that the writers openly mocked the original source material.

I haven’t followed the show, but the general complaints appear to be, in addition to the forced non-White casting, that the show went from being a bad adaptation in season one, to being Yennefer fan fiction in the second season. There appears to be little evidence that the showrunners have any respect for the source material at all, and have even killed off major characters in enormous retcons of Sapowski’s original work. This appears to have gone over like a wet balloon with the few book readers who still watch the show, and it turns out Henry Cavill is one of them.

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Well, it’s been a while since then and fans have already gone through two seasons of The Witcher. If anything, Cavill has proven all his naysayers wrong, continuously giving Geralt his all and perfectly embodying the White Wolf despite his many complexities and subtleties. But another thing that fans really admire about the actor is his love for Sapkowski’s novels. Cavill has explained in the past that he wants the show to remain as loyal to the books as possible, and it seems that he’s even willing to go out of his way and get into trouble with the producers to make sure that that’ll be the case as the series plays out.

In a recent interview, the Man of Steel star broached this subject by revealing that at one point, he went in front of the camera and performed a few lines of dialogue from the books that didn’t make it to the script.

Rather than Blood of Elves, the scene in question actually takes place during “Something More” from The Sword of Destiny. Cavill took the opportunity to add in this dialogue during Roach’s final moments in episode six. “Enjoy your last walk across the meadow and through the mist,” he whispers to his dying mare, calling back to the same conversation with Death.

Of course, the actor further noted that as far as his influence is concerned, there isn’t much he can do when scripts are written other than making some minor changes such as this one.

“As far as my issues are concerned, a lot of meetings took place. On the other hand, I often just fiddled with dialogues, sitting in an armchair, while my make-up was applied,” he continued.

Henry Cavill apparently took a serious pay cut just so Netflix could afford to have him as Geralt, and by the sound of things, he’s gotten so fed up with the idiotic Globo Homo Enjoyers ruining The Witcher, despite his best attempts otherwise, that he had to bail. It’s one thing to take a pay cut for the opportunity to work on a wonderful project adapting a book series you personally love to the big screen, it’s quite another to take a pay cut and then slowly realize, bit by bit, that the showrunners have contempt for the source material and want to do their own thing, except they’re too incompetent to make anything decent on their own.

Typically I hate people who praise actors, but Cavill seems like a genuinely good guy. So it’s sad that his legacy is going to be playing Geralt in an unwatchably bad adaptation of The Witcher, and Superman in Zack Snyder’s terrible reboots. Poor guy deserves better, and we deserve better than these incompetent AIDS Enthusiasts ruining everything.