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Amy West

The Witcher team explains why the upcoming Netflix anime movie was the perfect chance to finally adapt one of the series' most ambitious short stories

Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep.

The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, the new feature-length anime set to drop on Netflix on February 11, is set to do something the live-action series has never dared to attempt: adapt 'A Little Sacrifice', one of Andrzej Sapkowski's most ambitious short stories in the franchise.

According to showrunner Lauren Hissrich and Sirens of the Deep co-writer Rae Benjamin, there's a perfectly logical reason why they've waited to tell the tale in 2D. "We didn't want to cheap out," stresses Hissrich in the new issue of SFX magazine, which features Daredevil: Born Again on the cover and hits newsstands on January 29. "Water is death, you know?" she adds. Well, not everyone can be James Cameron now, can they?

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