Comic Con Interview with Andrzej Sapkowski - The Creator of The Witcher
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- We had the chance to ask Andrzej Sapkowski some of our questions at the Vienna Comic Con.
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"I gave netflix some ideas, but they didn't listen to me" yeah I think we noticed.
timestamp?
11:09
I'm inclined to believe it. Netflix Witcher is a warning how it ends when you think you're smarter than a world-renowned writer.
Actually it's really sad they had a GoT Level Series but one Woman fucked it all up because she thought she is more clever then the actual writer, he is a grounded guy for shure!
Thank you for this interview, mr Sapkowski is very Sympathic. Netflix is only an effect entertainment machine. Books let you dream, everyone have different imagination of how Gerald of Riva looks. I love the books and the witcher 3 game, from the Netflix adaptation i only really like the first 3 episodes.
"I gave netflix some ideas, but they didn't listen to me" - I'm inclined to believe it. Netflix Witcher is a perfect example how it ends when you think you're smarter than a world-renowned writer.
Besides that, Witcher is based on slavic, especialy Polish middle ages folk culture. In middle ages there were no black people in central Europe, especially Poland, and almost no asians, but in Netflix Witcher you have rainbow choice of skin colors around every corner. That's a botchery. Person who produced Netflix Witcher series is an idiot. To be specific and clear: Lauren Schmidt Hissrich is a femminist ESG idiot.
Thank you for creating The Witcher Mr. Sapkowski
"I will not elaborate."
POWERFUL.
They didn't listen 😢
Maybe he is not a super nice guy but he is atleast being himself and not being fake. That deserves some respect
His passive-aggressiveness is damn funny
As a hardcore book/game fan, watching the Netflix Series just made me sad honestly. Terrible writing, nonsensical plots, deviating from major plot points, characters miscast and so on.
Netflix Witcher is an example how it ends when you think you're smarter than a world-renowned writer. The rings of power is another example.
100% and what makes it even worse they had a perfect ready to go material in the books that even included some awesome and very filmlike/hollywood scenes like death of Milva, Ciri on ice, Bonhart vs The Rats etc. I gave up in the middle of season 2 so don't know what else they fucked up but from what I've seen so far and the online comments it looks like Netflix completely destroyed it.
They made jaskier gay?
Wt actual fuck
The first time i saw the scene i was like "isn't he the womanizer, the pimp in the books?"
Im reading the books now and replaying the game and both have such a cool fantasy vibe but the show feels like some soulless marvel shit
More cheerful that usual, I see
🤣🤣🤣🤣
He is always ironic. And he jokes a lot
2:53 hehe akurat 😂
Haha też się przy tym uśmiałam XDDDD
He has better English than half of our politicians.
I'm glad to hear that
I was also surprised. He also thanked me in very good german after the interview.
Why politicians should speak english well?
Before he became a writer he worked for decades in the international trade industry. He speaks quite a few languages besides English.
@@obvioustruth Because it's the contemporary lingua franca and the majority of paramount agreements, treaties, etc. are primarily created in English?
“they never listen to me” 🤦🏻♂ So sad
Widać po zachowaniu że nie jest zadowolony a wręcz rozgoryczony tym co netflix zrobił z jego dziełem.Zostaje jedynie współczuć.
You can see from his behavior that he is not satisfied and even embittered by what Netflix has done with his work. All we can do is sympathize.
A i tak na gry bardziej narzekał, mimo że są lepszą adaptacją, nawet tak naprawdę nią nie będąc...
Maybe someday we will have a good adaptation.
@@_Sheev_ wydaje mi się, że jako człowiek starszej daty nie rozumiał konceptu gier i tego jak wiele mogą osiągnąć
@@PERUN_PL "czytanie ze zrozumieniem"
Miał personalne powody by za grami nie przepadać z tego co pamiętam. To było dawno temu, nie spodziewał się za dużo po grach więc dał prostą stawkę z góry. Stawkę, która, jak gry okazały się hitem, okazała się dużo za mała. Gry zarabiały bardzo dużo a on prawie nic z tego nie miał. Kiedy próbował to renegocjować po czasie twórcy gier już nie byli tacy chętni do współpracy. Sprawiło to, że na wiele lat się obraził na wszystkie gry i graczy świata. Dopiero chyba z rok temu zaakceptował gry i graczy i przeprosił za złe zachowanie.
A tak to cóż, może sobie nie lubić gier, jego sprawa.
Z tym serialem być może wiązał większe nadzieje, ale też zapłacili mu więcej, tudzież może się czuć rozgoryczony i jednocześnie mniej chętny do wypowiedzi. Ale też co tam wiem, całkiem nic
Great interview! Thanks for sharing with us the words of Andrzej Sapkowski. The man is an amazing author!!!
Thank you
-Who is this guy?
-Yea, he wrote the thing
-Well pretend he's not there
Thanks for this. It is rare to see him give that much extensive answers
im so happy that we got Andrzej Sapkowski as our Polish Legend of books ((atleast for me)), he thinks about everything.
Really enjoyed talking to him. Great Interview Partner.
"Netflix didn't listen to me." Yeah that's probably why Henry Cavil left
Netflix destroyed Sapkowski's The Witcher Universe. Great Reagrds for Andrzej Sapkowski. Hope the Time will come to see really Great Witcher Movie.
That moment when he says 'ehe, akurat!'
Beautiful
He is ironic but he is very smart. He knows for example few languages.
It's kinda heartbreaking when he said "is just a writer..." and they don't listen him. I wish this part of interview go viral. Maybe do the short / reel of this part.
Thanks for the feedback. We are not doing that much shorts sadly. Other clips already went viral from our interview on Reddit and so on.
2:54 chciał powiedzieć akurat i przypomniało się że rozmawia po angielsku XD ale szczerze to tragedia bo to Pan Sapkowski powinien mieć tam dużo do powiedzenia chociaż i tak powiedział wystarczająco w książce i wystarczyło się tego trzymać ale nie Netflix musi wszystko spierdolić( tak komentarz dla Polaków)
My polish is a bit rusty :p What did he want to say at that timestamp?
@@CerealkillerzAT I think he wanted to say "akurat" which in this context could mean "as if!" And then it looked like he remembered he was talking in English
@Rumcajs1-yy2tmthat wouldn’t fit to what he said before. As if would fit.
Thanks :D
Despite considering all of his works as mastepieces, Sapkowski in many other interview named "Husite trilogy" his magnum opus.
Thanks for the additional info :D
@@CerealkillerzAToh ye, that trilogy might be even better then the witcher saga, but it's fantasy based on history of middleages silesia, wich is region in poland, germany and czechia. to get every detail you should know alerady some of this history. for example you can find ther autentic characters, like guttenberg, zawisza czarny etc.
11:24 "who's this? a writer, there's nobody" so sad...
Coen's Barton Fink in real life...
You heard it here. Netflix wouldn't listen to Andrzej Sapkowski's ideas. Henry cavill was dedicated to making this story as close to source material as he could, and Netflix spit in both Henry Cavill and Andrzej Sapkowski faces. That's why I don't watch Netflix anymore because any story that doesn't need to be changed they change it. Honestly, I think it's for this reason. they don't have any creativity to create an amazing story, so they just change a story that is very popular and ruin it. It's okay. We'll see what happens when the next season comes out with Liam Hemsworth. I'm pretty sure that show is going to crash and burn, and I hope it does. Everyone needs to start voting with their dollar. Everyone make them regret what they did.
I love this guy 😂
Great interview. Mr. Sapkowski is a huge inspiration to me at the moment. I'm making my way through Baptism Of Fire and I simply love how alive he's made The Witcher feel. I'm definitely taking notes for my own series and any future ideas that might pop up.
Super excited for the new book. And I find his comments on Netflix to be quite powerful. It's exactly what we all expected. The creator of the series being ignored? Why, Hollywood would NEVER! 😂😭
Glad you enjoyed it 🐱
Good interview and I enjoyed the author's blunt and down to earth answers with no soft pedaling and evasive replies. Thankfully much less pretentious than most of the insufferable Canadian writers I hear on our national channel.
Thank you. Hope you enjoy our other videos too :D
New book next year. Gonna grab it!
the witcher is already great, but the creator wow he really great more than his book
I can't wait for the new book, finally finished Season of Storms this month and can't wait for another adventure in this fantastic world, in the meantime I have his Hussite trilogy to get through though.
I am looking forward to your next book Mr. Sapkowski, would you do more stories after it that were before the first book and how was Geralt's relationship with Triss? And how he had a contract for a haunted house. I would still have the idea that Geralt would fight a demon for the first time in one of the stories. And also how Geralt will have to kill a higher vampire. And how Geralt is attacked by two dopplers because they were hired by a higher vampire because he considered him a threat if the witcher took the job for him. In addition, one doppler will impersonate Geralt.
"Not entertainment at all for meeeeeeee"
So sometimes he only writes one sentence and it's enough for the day. But he has "no time" for videogames. 😂
Honestly though, a rare interview with him, his Wicher books really are amazing. But people watching this video will already know.
Hope you enjoy our other videos too 😸
whatta legend
This man is a figure. Really funny.
He was a great interview partner. I also enjoyed talking to him a bit afterwards
I'd rather an author who is inspired by and produces unique things, rather than one who consumes and spits out common entertainment.
He is 76 years old,maybe I miss understood him.
2:52 hehe akurat xd
"I gave netflix some ideas, but they didn't listen to me" yeah no shit, fucking travesty.
Netflix got a hit but it will be over soon, this could have been legendary had they tried to stay the course. There is easily enough material to go full game of thrones with deep character development.
Dude's like..."fuk dem games...that's just advertisement for my books. Fuk outta here."
Now don't be like that. He may not be into the games but goddamn those games are amazing!
The thing is i have never seen an author with such a disdain for their own work.
He doesn't believe that the witcher works and he therefore puts no effort in making it a proper adaptation.
I’m sorry but I couldn’t help but laugh, this man is wildly successful with games and tv shows yet is still lowkey salty about the writing competition he got 3rd place in as a kid 🤣🤣
Would be interesting to see what the second and first place achieved later in life :D
As a 40 year old "kid", lol
I just watched this video to know how to pronounce his name lol
Glad we could help 🦊
When your interviewee mentions that he writes a book, you follow up on this! You missed a great opportunity to be quoted worldwide.
This was already known prior to our interview/the reason why he joins conventions at the moment. We got quoted worldwide for other questions in this interview but that is probably the reason why you are here.
Huh...never seen him laugh or seem like he wanted to even answer questions but he seems moderately interested here. Still seems odd to me how he seems to dismisses the games.
It took some time to get something out of him but I kinda knew, it wouldn't be a good idea to start with questions about the games or the show
He's typical stubborn grandpa kind of thing, so im not surprised
There's old people who find games interesting and have no problem with them and then there's old people who see no value in them and don't see them as a form of real entertainment, unfortunately who falls under the latter category and that opinion is likely never to change.
I he is honestly a little butthurt that his books became so popular due to the games success.
@Rumcajs1-yy2tmI mean he can at least act like the games turned his work from a local act to a global phenomenon
He said in 76 he wrote the book an he was around 40 then so.that would make him 90 something years old,he looks younger then that.maybe he's fantasizing about his age!!!
A tongue slip - he wrote it in 1986, not 76.
Is this the guy who created the entire Witcher universe and barely makes enough to cover rent?
Right now he's a millionaire because of Netflix and a behind-the-scenes deal with CDProject. But in the past he made some poor business decisions and didn't earn much from his creation.
@@GeraltzCraftaThis. In the past Sapkowski sold rights to adaptation and took some amount of money in advance, instead of submit to percentage gain. That was some real miscalculation of him.
he is old grandpa with sovietus mentality. he had to learn some things from younger people which he didn't like. We have strong generation gap in Poland because of USSR domination which ended at begining of 90s
He wrote the Witcher for money, for a fantasy magazine contest (fun fact: Witcher took 3rd place). When the text has sold well, he liked it and expanded the universe. Then games came and Netflix
@@GeraltzCraftaoh, he was a millionaire way before Netflix adaptation.
He is never satisfied with anything that is not his own creation
:)
I am fan of his books and the world he created, but not a big fan of his person.
When you become an author and spend endless hours toiling and sweating lifeblood over your work then someone just take liberties with it turning it something different(while paying pennies for your work- Sapkowski got totally jobbed on the video game rights) please get back to us.
@@raymondsmith6870
did i somehow offend you by sharing my own opinion?
i am so sorry ... for you
Probably you didn't know mr Sapkowski himself demanded up-front payment instead of royalties, because he didn't believe in games success.
He even begun to insult potential customers.
He gave few interviews calling gamers retards and basically stupid people. So no, i dont think he is a nice person,
But still i enjoy his work now and than ... although i think that he plagiarized few ideas from other fantasy autors. That wasnt nice as well
@@4bs0rb3nt9
Actually it seems your the one easily offended that a 70+ year old man born just after WW2 doesn't get the appeal of video games and think they are a waste of time and taking it personally. Myself I think he is correct in that assumption and gamers are usually unsociable individuals. So much so that at our workplace we have to put them into line and teach they proper manners and professionalism. Sometime by being sent home and other times in the parking lot. So I can sympathize with the author on that one.
On the money front. Remember why he made that deal. He had already been approached previously from companies trying to adapt his books. He had been approached for a game and tv show, both of which had failed and made him nothing since he had opted for royalties both times. Like most would probably do at this point, he decided to do something different and opt in for a lump sum, even more so since back then CDPR was a new company scraping by on loans and with no prior game development experience. CDPR also wanted to give him royalties too not out of the goodness of their hearts but because as a company barely getting by on loans they would prefer to avoid situations that require liquid capital.
Though you do see CDPR make a new deal with the author in 2019 to reimburse him more fairly but only after being hit with a lawsuit. So they settled before the court could really hit them hard. So the author was right again on that one.
@@raymondsmith6870
sorry, i wont be wasting much more time to convince you on anything, so i wont elaborate.
You obviously a boomer and i know better not to waste my time to fix a discriminating attitude
of some random "old guy" who cant even recognize sarcasm.
But i wanted to underline one thing i didn`t so much care for his opinions about the games or gamers, I was much more disappointed in his stance towards polish TV Series The Witcher that was filmed in 2002. And he greatly fueled hate that this series received.
Authors and actors made a great deal to try to be hones with the books spirit, and he was disappointed all the same.
To the contrast with the current Netflix series where he was "very content with Netflix attitude towards his work" after he received his paycheck.
So lets just agree to disagree on this one.
I saw and heard much more than i had to to make my mind about mr Sapkowski, and as much as i enjoyed the world that he created i think he lacks certain personality traits that could make my opinion of him better.
I dint find his books to be so special either. He is just craftsman, not an artist
@@4bs0rb3nt9
Well it seem the Polish tv series was not well received by the audience with an IMDB score of 5.5 out of 10. Even the screenwriter removed his name from the credits. So the author isn't the only one who had a problem with it apparently with a low budget and badly acted tv show.
You forget one thing since you're still a stripling that the author doesn't have to be your friend and share all your ideas of how things work. He is dealing with a lot of hustlers and shysters in tv, film and apparently video games who profit from his creation. Remember it is called show business not show friends and he is being a tough businessman no different than Disney PR team weaponizing corporate owned fansites to dox and attack any movie goer who criticizes their actions or products. Though in one case you have a small author protecting his work and livelihood and another you have large companies running pych-ops projects with large budgets and misinformation to set fan on fan. Which is worse.
His attitude towards the games has always been kind of gross. I get that he's not a gamer but the Witcher game is what most people identify the series as and it introduced his work to way more people than he ever would have without them. Like, show some gratitude my guy.
I can understand him on some points. It is always hard to see your work get "re-used" but at some point you have to accept that people enjoy different kinds of media and as you already wrote, it made a lot new people fall in love with the series, who probably would have never heard of the books without the game or the show.
But he is not saying anything bad about the games. He only states that he never played any and is not into them. He is 76 years old and maybe he just doesn’t care for the medium, doesn’t understand it and prefers to spend his free time in a different way than learning how to play a video game. You are forgetting that computers are a novelty for him. He didn’t grow up with them, so it’s quite natural he doesn’t care much. And he is not even saying anything arrogant about the games, he is not bashing players. He is simply saying that it’s a kind of entertainment that is not for him. That’s it.
Besides, he is a writer. Writer is not a profession you venture on when you want to make money. In this interview Sapkowski even says that he only gives to publisher what he himself perceives as a “masterpiece”. He stated that in many of his other interviews. He is clearly more into creating something of quality than making tons of money. Just because games gave popularity to his work - why should he be “grateful”? He is the creator of the world and the ideas. Without him, the games would not exist. It’s similar with LOTR and Tolkien. Despite the fact that Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy is widely regarded as a masterpiece by fans, Christopher Tolkien many times said that his father would not have liked the movies. Christopher himself saw them as shallow and not giving justice to his father’s work. It’s nothing strange. A writer that has spend half of his life constructing something will not be grateful if a simpler version for younger audience suddenly gets popularity. They created it so they know well if some deeper meaning is taken out or simplified. It doesn’t mean that adaptations have no place in society… but in the end a writer does not need to be “grateful” for anything. Sapkowski is an older person who doesn’t give a damn about popularity, fame or money. Or the games. And he has right to do so. 🤷♀️
He just got really angry because after the games were released, they started publishing his books with covers featuring characters from the game who weren't even in the book.
Thing is he doesn't need yours or anyone elses gratitude. He wrote the goddamed thing and will choose on his own terms what constitutes as being grateful in this regard. But I think some people are so egocentric they just won't get it.
Netflix ne aukaat dikha di.
Jesteś Polakiem to mów po polsku
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🤣🤣🤣 Nie znasz żadnego języka obcego?
Za chuja nie rozumiem nic, bo nie znam angielskiego, ale Sapkowski wygląda jakby chciał zabić każdego człowieka którego poznał. A nawet ich rodziny. Nie znaczy, że źle pisze, ale wygląda jak skurwiel.
A co do jego książek, to nie czytałem pomimo, że lubię fantastykę.
CZcams normally should offer subtitles if you click the icon under the video
Oferuje, po angielsku... @@CerealkillerzAT
Oh, ok :/
skoro lubisz fantastykę, to nie pożałowałbyś przeczytania jego książek :)
This what Netflix did with the witcher it is lack respect to the author it's like changing the bible and put LGBT there.
My dude, while I agree that the Netflix adaptation is in many ways disrespectful and don't understand the source, your example is pretty stupid. The Witcher books are full of progressive stuff.
@@hawkins347 Sorry, The Witcher's world is a Slavic world, not a Western one. Nowadays in the West everyone wants to kneel before slavery, we Slavs never had slaves and we were taken into slavery, we don't have to follow it. The world of the witcher is the world of Slavs who loved equality, brotherhood, nature and lived in harmony with nature.
@@xardass4209 First of all, I'm Slavic myself. Second of all, including people of various ethnicities has nothing to do with real life slavery and given that it's a fantasy world where humans are an invasive species from a different dimension there's nothing to suggest that they all need to have a certain shade of skin. Neither is it expressly Slavic, it's a mishmash of various European influences, which includes Western Europe. The themes of racial oppression, LGBTQ+ and women's rights are already present in the books. In case you missed it, there are no less than three discussions about abortion rights, and Geralt literally dies protecting oppressed minorities from humans. In fact, the show somehow managed to be less progressive. The show's writers are just inept and the overall art direction and set design of the show is terrible. Actors didn't ruin the show, the production did.
@@xardass4209You know that Sapkowski always made fun of people like you?😂 He even wrote a whole mocking essay about how stupid it is to get excited about "Slavic" fantasy.
@@xardass4209 That's bullshit and not true lol. So many international references in The Witcher. Arthurian Legends, Celtic and Germanic folklore, and more. Just leave
Whats the big deal, to write novels based on a game... phshhh....
No, the game is based on the novels. The main reason why many polish kids were buying the witcher 1 was because it was based on so fantastic novels we've read, second one is - it looked quite interesting.
I think he is joking lol
@@anotherguy88 the game was based on the neflix show and he just wrote his version Kind of like a fan fiction
You cant understand simple joke? Yhm
@@jankowalski6338 you're lying!!! Netflix show and game were based on comics series, and books were written after Witcher 3
in Poland it's not so nice for reporters and the public
I AM a bigest fan you kan emaginate for Andrzej but he is ... Cenzura