Ronald D. Moore, one of the key producers of the revamped Battlestar Galactica, has announced that production has begun on a 13-episode adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series of novels. The science fiction/romance/fantasy is a time-traveling saga about a modern woman who suddenly finds herself in mid-18th Century Scotland.
The
Outlander saga straddles multiple genres and Starz is clearly hoping to replicate the success that HBO has experienced with its adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s
A Game of Thrones. In 2010 Random House published
The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, which is loosely based on the first novel in the series, but which also features a new story line and a different perspective on the story, which is told from a different point of view than the novels.
The Exile graphic novel, which was illustrated by Hoang Nguyen, was a major hit in the bookstore market, and could undergo a major revival in the new Starz
Outlander TV series is a hit.