Friday, August 9, 2013

Outlander TV Series and the Summer Book Club

From Karon:
 
At the summer book club tonight I announced that Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is being made into a TV series that will air on Starz next year. They are currently casting the main characters and that means that Jamie Fraser has been named.  Sam Heughan is a British actor.   I promised to find a photo of Sam/Jamie; below are the pictures. You will have to imagine him with red hair. 
 
 
 

Yep, I can see him as a red headed Scotsman in a kilt.  Will it be true what Scotsmen don't wear beneath their kilts?
 
 
  One can only hope!
 
 
 
 
Below is a synopsis of the book and the show.

 
The drama revolves around Fraser, who strikes up a passionate affair with Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743. Armed with sheer grit and enduring strength, Fraser is a young Scottish clan lord with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humor. He's further described as intelligent, principled and -- by 18th-century standards -- educated and worldly, with tenderness and compassion that stand out in contrast to his contemporaries. A natural leader of men, he has no political ambitions or desire for battlefield glory. Instead, he wishes to remove the price on his head and return to his family’s ancestral farm.
 
Karon
 

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