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Outlander: Blood of My Blood, Starz’s upcoming prequel bid to their beloved fantasy-historical play Outlander, follows the lives of the parents of Outlander’s madly-in-love protagonists, Claire and Jamie Fraser.
Jamie’s parents Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie transportation connected a forbidden romance arsenic their rival Highland clans jockey for governmental powerfulness connected the eve of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. Meanwhile, successful the aboriginal 20th century, Henry Beauchamp and Julia Moriston autumn successful emotion during World War One. Henry returns to England profoundly traumatized by his acquisition arsenic a worker successful the British army.
They marry, person their girl Claire, and are expecting different kid when, portion connected a travel unsocial to the Scottish Highlands, they are successful a car accident. Julia and past Henry each hap upon Craigh na Dun, the past chromatic ellipse that fundamentally serves arsenic the clip instrumentality of the Outlander saga.
Julia and Henry are separately sent backmost successful clip to 1714 wherever they each go caught up successful the governmental machinations and convulsive rivalries of the Highland clans arsenic an uprising looms. The respective paths of the Beauchamps volition transverse with those of Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie arsenic each 4 protagonists yet play their fateful parts to impact the people of Scottish history.
If that sounds similar 1 helluva coincidence considering what happened to Claire, who grew up believing her parents died successful that car accident, it’s not. ”In our world, coincidences are known arsenic destiny and destiny,” showrunner/executive shaper Matthew B. Roberts precocious told IGN.
Please find our interrogation with Roberts and enforcement shaper Maril Davis astir Season One of Outlander: Blood of My Blood below. (It has been edited for clarity.)
IGN: I cognize immoderate of the Outlander backstory is retired there, immoderate of it isn't. How overmuch leeway did you person to play astir successful that satellite without stomping connected anything?
Matthew B. Roberts: I deliberation we were precise cautious not to unwind anything. Just to adhd to. So we cognize Brian and Ellen conscionable successful the books. We cognize that it's astir instantaneous, this love. So I deliberation we play that beauteous overmuch precisely the mode that's written. We conscionable accordion retired connected that story. So alternatively of having it each instrumentality spot accelerated fire, we conscionable play with it and agelong it out. And Henry and Julia, evidently that's escaped game. Diana said aggregate times she's not funny successful telling that story, but erstwhile we pitched it to her, she was like, spell for it, that sounds similar a chill idea. … That's, to usage a pun, an unfastened publication that's escaped to bash what we want. And we besides privation them to transverse paths with Brian and Ellen. So that opens up a caller escapade for america arsenic well.
Maril Davis: I'm not a writer, but I deliberation I was like, "Ugh, we're leaving the books behind." I thought it was a small stressful due to the fact that I deliberation I'm truthful utilized to relying connected the books arsenic a roadmap, but I person to accidental I was truthful pleasantly amazed that Matt and the writers person crafted this communicative that to maine has conscionable opened up this world. We ever speech astir Jamie and Claire being the cardinal absorption of Outlander and everything has to spoke disconnected them, but successful Blood of My Blood, you not lone person 2 couples alternatively of one, but you conscionable person truthful overmuch much state to research the ancillary characters successful a mode that we didn't get to bash connected Outlander. And to maine it's been incredibly breathtaking and freeing successful immoderate ways, but inactive keeping successful the Outlander world.
IGN: I would ideate 1 of the biggest challenges was moving successful the clip question element. It's benignant of the Die Hard problem. How galore times tin the aforesaid feline get caught successful this situation? Was determination ever immoderate mentation of the communicative wherever those respective emotion stories ran parallel but near retired clip travel?
Roberts: Not really, due to the fact that I don't deliberation that would've been Outlander. That would've conscionable been 2 parallel emotion stories being told astatine the aforesaid time. Outlander has clip travel. That's what makes Outlander magic. And that's the magic successful the show. But besides I think, and I'll usage your example, is that John McClane conscionable happens to beryllium conscionable the unluckiest feline of each time. So that feels coincidental. Whereas successful our world, coincidences are known arsenic destiny and destiny. So that's been crafted into the books and we took it into the TV show. So erstwhile each these fateful meetings happen, that's what they are. They're designed by destiny oregon destiny oregon immoderate you privation to telephone it.
IGN: Ellen Fraser was already deceased by the clip the archetypal Outlander begins. Are you challenged by the information that determination is benignant of a play astatine that extremity of the condemnation but that we don't cognize erstwhile exactly? Is that an constituent of suspense you tin play with? On the different hand, I don't deliberation we truly knew thing astir Claire's parents.
Roberts: No. They're mentioned successful the publication arsenic they got successful a car mishap and died and that's arsenic overmuch arsenic we perceive with Ellen. And we cognize Ellen and Brian and Dougal and Colum and Murtagh, we've seen each their deaths connected camera. So we cognize erstwhile they die. But I don't deliberation that hampers america astatine each due to the fact that the mode we archer stories some connected Outlander and Blood of My Blood is the however story, not the if story. So erstwhile Jamie and Claire are up connected the ramparts astatine Fort William and they leap disconnected and they're escaping the Redcoats, we cognize they live, there's 4 different books, 5 different books astatine that point. So we cognize they live, it's however bash they get retired of that? How bash they get to past that? That's time 1 of Outlander. So the aforesaid happening applies connected Blood of My Blood is we cognize erstwhile each these characters die, however bash they live? How bash they get to these places? How bash they go the characters they go connected Outlander?
IGN: There's a done enactment of bully dad, atrocious dada successful the show. Red Jacob MacKenzie is not without his questionable methods but compared to Lord Lovat, they're benignant of polar opposites. With Brian Fraser particularly, however did his father's [Lovat] attraction of him signifier his character? And with Colum and Dougal MacKenzie, Red Jacob opens his bosom to his girl Ellen successful a mode he's not consenting to bash with his sons.
Roberts: I deliberation the clip dictates that rather a bit, is that the thought of what a antheral is successful that clip is precise different. I don't cognize if it's precise different. It's conscionable precise regimented and what's expected, what's not expected, you person to transportation connected the line. You person to transportation connected the name. And with Ellen, she didn't person that burden. And adjacent though Red Jacob astir apt would've loved that, helium might've treated her somewhat antithetic if she was a man. And helium opens his bosom to her and helium knows helium tin due to the fact that she's a pistillate and that she won't ever person the load of being the Laird. So helium frees himself determination and she gets everything those boys didn't, but they get to witnesser that. They witnesser that, and that builds resentment and helium tries to signifier them into Lairds and they conscionable don't person what she has, and I deliberation that is that household dynamic.
I deliberation Lovat is simply a small antithetic successful that helium has a large bosom and helium genuinely loves profoundly for himself. I deliberation that's the kicker for Lovat is helium lone has capable emotion to springiness to himself and that's it and everything other is simply a prop successful his life, adjacent Brian. And helium tin telephone Brian a disappointment, but Davina is who shapes Brian. Davina is the lad and the satellite successful his life. I don't cognize if helium fights against Lovat. I'd ne'er saw (Brian) arsenic wanting his father's approval. He astir apt wants immoderate respect from his father, but I don't cognize if it's approval. I deliberation that'll play retired implicit the people of the show.
Davis: I deliberation besides Brian's been forged by fire. I deliberation we'll spot implicit the play and the 2nd play that Brian is shaped by his attraction from Lovat for amended oregon for worse. And you're right, his parent has guided him to beryllium the idiosyncratic helium is, and he's gotten retired of that concern acold amended than 1 could hope. But also, successful presumption of Red Jacob, I deliberation Ellen does not airs a contention for him. Do you cognize what I mean? He tin beryllium much loving to her due to the fact that she's not aft his Lairdship. So helium tin fto down successful a mode and beryllium much susceptible with her. And sadly, helium isn't that mode with his sons.
IGN: I cognize you're successful accumulation connected Season Two and I judge [Outlander creator-novelist] Diana Gabaldon is trying to bash 3 prequel books. Is the thought for Blood of My Blood to conscionable beryllium a 3 play show?
Roberts: No, I deliberation it goes arsenic agelong arsenic we person truly bully stories to tell. And if that's 3 seasons – I anticipation it's not, I anticipation it's much than that – but I deliberation we person a batch of communicative there. We person much characters that we tin leap into and see. We tin spell backwards and forwards a small bit. So that besides gives america a batch of runway. And I cognize she's inactive penning publication 10 and she'll commencement connected the prequels, truthful we whitethorn beryllium down the roadworthy a small bit.
IGN: The archetypal Outlander amusement went to America, to the Caribbean. Is the program for Blood of My Blood to enactment strictly successful Scotland oregon volition you question elsewhere?
Roberts: No, we cognize their lives are successful Scotland. It doesn't mean that a quality can't spell somewhere, but the bulk of these characters unrecorded and dice successful Scotland. So with Jamie successful the communicative took 1 pilgrimage already. I don't cognize if astatine immoderate constituent we flash to that and amusement what that travel was similar and what helium went done connected that journey. Not Jamie, I'm sorry. Brian. Jamie is the actor, truthful it's lone ace confusing. But yeah, truthful helium took a pilgrimage and determination mightiness beryllium immoderate traveling, but we're not going to uproot the accumulation and go, we're each moving to America, oregon we're moving to the Caribbean, oregon we're moving to France.
Outlander: Blood of My Blood premieres Friday, August 8 connected STARZ.
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