“What Sam and I personally felt was that we would like to see it finished up in a proper way and not wrapped up in two episodes or something. Like the producers, the actors didn’t know for a while whether season 7 would be the end or not. “We didn’t know there were an awful lot of conversations going on about whether there would be another one or not,” said Caitriona Balfe (Claire Fraser). Caitriona Balfe will find it “very, very hard to say goodbye” to Outlander And hey, that kind of thing has happened, so don’t give up hope. That said, there are a total of 10 novels planned, so it’s possible the TV show won’t adapt the whole series, unless we get an Outlander movie to adapt the tenth and final novel or something. We can expect the eighth and final season to adapt that one. So far, Diana Gabaldon has published nine novels in her series the latest, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, came out in 2021. Outlander will have one more season after this, for eight in total.

This is the first time we’ve taken material from three books.” Will Outlander adapt all 10 of Diana Gabaldon’s books? We might not come back.’ We said, ‘Let’s take books 7 and 8, let’s combine them and take all that material and make the best season we can.’ And that’s what we did. “We decided, ‘You know what? Let’s take all the material we have.

“We went into that writer’s room not having any idea and having to assume this would be our last season,” said executive producer Maril Davis. We had an idea of a contingency plan, ‘Hey, just in case we get it, we can adjust the last few episodes to carry on.'”Īnd that ended up being what happened.

“It wasn’t until we were two-thirds of the way in that we had the announcement that we were going to get season 8. “We thought season 7 would be our final season for the majority of the writing and the production,” Roberts told Entertainment Weekly. It’s so big that it feels almost like a finale for the time-traveling-romance series, and according to executive producer Matthew Roberts, it almost was.

The seventh season of Outlander, based on the popular books by Diana Gabaldon, premieres tonight! At 16 episodes, this is a monster-sized season.

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