Sony Pictures has picked up the rights to adapt the novels by Diana Gbaldon’s for her series Outlanders and is looking to do it for a cable broadcast. The planned series is being developed by Ron Moore, known most recently for his work in updating Battlestar Galactica into a big hit for the SyFy channel. Moore is set as developer and executive producer for it and is working on the adaptation. No networks are yet set for it but Sony intends to start shopping it around to see what it can do, both domestically and internationally as many of their series tend to do much better overseas than in the US, but requires that startup
The Outlander series is comprised of these works:
Outlander series
- Outlander (1991)
- Dragonfly in Amber (1992)
- Voyager (1994)
- Drums of Autumn (1997)
- The Outlandish Companion (1999), a guide to the Outlander series containing synopses, a character guide, and other notes and information
- The Fiery Cross (2001)
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)
- An Echo in the Bone (2009)
- The Exile – An Outlander Graphic Novel (2010)
- “A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” (2010), a short story in Songs of Love and Death, an anthology
Plot Concept: Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another…
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon–when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire’s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life …and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire…and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
[Source: Deadline]