The Witcher is officially getting an Anime on Netflix

The studio behind 'The Legend of Korra' is working on the project. Netflix clearly knows its adaptation of The Witcher is a hot property (shifting metrics aside), and it's determined to milk that success for all it's worth. The service has confirmed rumors that it's working on an anime movie offshoot, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf.

It's not saying much about the plot besides talk of a "new threat facing the Continent," but fans may like the talent attached to the project. The Witcher series' Beau DeMayo and Lauren Hissrich are involved, and Legend of Korra's Studio Mir is producing the title. There's no mention of a release date or casting. It makes sense that Netflix might turn to anime. It can't really devote energy to a live action movie when a second season of the core show is already in the pipeline, but an animated movie is more feasible. And simply speaking, anime is in vogue at Netflix at the moment -- the company could ride two bandwagons at once this way.

Feds won't say if U.S. agreed to suspend trade deal with China until Cdns freed

Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is refusing to say how Washington responded to Canada’s request that it hold off on signing a trade deal with China until Canadian prisoners are released. Champagne told The Canadian Press today it wouldn’t be in the interests of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig for him to speak publicly about ongoing negotiations for their release from Chinese detention.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a French-language TV network on Thursday he had asked the United States not to sign any final trade agreement with China until the Canadians have been released. Champagne says many things are happening to secure the release of the two Canadians and that no other foreign-affairs file is receiving more attention. It has been more than a year since Beijing detained Spavor and Kovrig in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top Chinese tech executive, Meng Wanzhou. The Globe and Mail reported Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said today that Canada’s request to the U.S. was “doomed to fail.”