I’m black and think this is a bad idea. Just doesn’t fit. But what if it’s not even that? The OP is telling us this but we don’t even know for sure. But these angry folks need to be honest with themselves are just say that any minority characters piss them off. Stop pretending like it’s just changing of whites to non-whites that anger you. One even says “go woke, go broke”, meaning if you try to make a diverse cast they can’t watch. I wonder if this means they walk around society with their eyes closed in order to not see how diverse the real world is?

I don't know anything about the Witcher series/franchise/IP what-have-you, but in a fantasy universe I feel like there's room for flexibility if it's done for a reason.

What I do find a bit irritating though, is that Netflix isn't looking to hire someone of a certain race, but rather someone who ISN'T of a certain other race. To me, that says that they haven't even conceived a plot direction for the character's new race in the first place, and are simply hiring to fill a quota. When I read things like this I just imagine a bunch rich people drinking wine while reading market trends, ignorant to why this sort of thing is important in the first place.

I think you're missing the point here, it's really not about having a diverse cast by itself, it's about taking an established character with very specific features (whose lineage is kind of a big deal in the lore) and superimposing a different racial make up to that said character.

From what I see it's the deliberate choice to exclude white actresses from playing a character that in the books and game is pretty much as white as can be. It would at least keep the appearance of fairness to not deliberately exclude white actresses from applying to that role, even if in the end they decided to pick a non-white actress.

I'm 99% sure these same people would be pissed if they decided to cast Blade as a white guy or Light (Death note) as a white guy as well (yet the last one actually happened and I couldn't force myself to even watch that train wreck).

From my personal take I would love to see different stories told, with new characters of whatever racial diversity the authors want to make them, I just don't get why directors feel the need to hijack an established character and then change them for no apparent reason. 

Could led to a fairly eas-to-win lawsuit because of that.

I don't have any problem with casting a person of whatever color in this role.  But, I agree with you that specifically trying to get a non-white actress is pretty tacky.  

I think it's nonsense. I don't have issues usually with those things, but when it comes to movies/series based on books, it should follow the narrative. Especially for main characters. On the other hand I see those issues of European fantasy worlds, which include minorities only as foreign nations far away. But those are also cultural differences. In British and French literature, it's a lot more common. But those have been colonial power houses. The majority of the world isn't white skinned (less than 1 billion). From my point of view there are dozens of nations, that are able to produce shows without white skinned people, if it bothers them so much and millions of authors writing books, that doesn't need to be modified for minorities within certain nations. Personally I love anime, bollywood, hollywood and almost all other kinds of productions around the world.

The crucial thing is, if you take a book or story from a certain area for example everyone in a few European nations knows the Krabat legend and book. A decade ago, they made a terrible film, but minorities wouldn't improve the result in any way. Oh and if anyone from Netflix might read this, this a a perfect story for a fantasy thriller tv series. Just saying.

Well, movies from games usually suck anyway, so why wasting time on accuracy when you can get easy and cheap political correctness instead?

When does it stop. WHEN.

Thank you for the recommendation! I stalk around the fantasy subreddit and see this series talked about a lot but never looked into it. I have a lot of books to catch up on but I'll put this on my "to read" list. Both those characters look badass!

Seems abit odd