Finally, time travel-based romances and adventures are happening to women other than Emily Blunt and Rachel McAdams! In the first trailer for Starz’s Outlander from Battlestar Galactica impresario Ronald D. Moore, we get a taste of what Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe) will be in for as she travels through back through time to war-torn Scotland. With moody music, doublets being unbuttoned, soldiers on the march, and breathy tones explaining that it may seem crazy but she totally traveled back in time, this looks like fish-out-of-water fun mixed with the addictive, serial melodrama that one can expect from a Ronald D. Moore joint.
The series, based on the Outlander novels by Diana Gabaldon, follows a 20th century nurse, Claire Randall, who gets transported back to mid-18th-century Highland, Scotland, a land ravaged by war. Starz has ordered sixteen episodes of the hour-long drama, and with seven novels under Gabaldon’s belt, there’s plenty of material to mine should the series succeed. And plenty of sex appeal too, as has become the norm for Starz series. At the recent TCA winter press tour, Gabaldon said, “They sort of want to lick him,” in reference to Sam Heughan, who plays Highland hottie/main love interest James Fraser. So, consider investing in a microfiber cloth to wipe the saliva from your television screen when Outlander makes its debut later this year.
What do you think? Will you be tuning into Outlander?
I am so, so, so excited! What I like most is that so much of the cast and crew are on twitter and you can tell how much they enjoy what they are doing.
Also, I totally want Chris to do a Nerdist podcast with these people.
I’m so excited about this series. Based on the trailer, it looks like they’re really going to do it justice.
The weird thing is my mom and some of middle age friends like this series. I don’t know how their going to handle the show based on their favorite book. Since it’s STARZ it looks like something I would want to watch. I’ll just have to watch in secret cause I won’t hear the end of it from my mom (a woman in her 60s).
Between this and Black Sails, Starz is about to become better at TV than HBO. Especially with Boardwalk Empire, The Newsroom, Eastbound and Down, and True Blood all coming to an end, and Game of Thrones about to be roadblocked soon by George’s lack of progress on the books.