[BOOK] The Making of Outlander The Series The Official Guide to Seasons One & Two ( ReaD )

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[BOOK] The Making of Outlander: The Series: The Official Guide to Seasons One &
Two ( ReaD )

[BOOK] The Making of Outlander: The Series: The Official Guide to Seasons One & Two ( ReaD )
[BOOK] The Making
of Outlander: The
Series: The Official
Guide to Seasons
One & Two ( ReaD )
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TaraBennett is a New York Times Bestselling author and entertainmentjournalist. As an author, or
co-author, she's written more than 20 official movieand TV companion books including Sons of
Anarchy: The Official Collector's Edition, Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show, The
Official Making of Big Trouble in Little China, Fringe: September's Notebook (an Amazon best
book of 2014), Lost Encyclopedia, The Art of Ice Age, and many more. Tara is also a contributing
writer for SCI FI Magazine, Total Film, Blastr.com and is a U.S. editor for SFX Magazine. She is an
adjunct TV writing professor at Rowan University. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights
reserved. Chapter 1 Outlander: The Origins “Will we ever get to see Outlander adapted for the
screen?― Since the novel first came out in 1991, author Diana Gabaldon has fielded that question
from enthusiastic readers almost daily. The story of Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser
seemed an obvious choice for a cinematic retelling, but the project was not without its logistical
challenges. With the novel weighing in at more than 600 pages, the core dilemma always centered
on how much of the action-­packed adventure would have to be cut just to fit the traditional
cinematic window of two hours. With too much to lose to the proverbial cutting room floor, the
world of Outlander remained strictly in the realm of print. It wasnâ€t until around 2010 that a
possible solution started to present itself: a television series. Maril Davis, a development
executive/co–­executive producer for Ronald D. Mooreâ€s Tall Ship Productions, was
looking for potential properties to produce and had the books recommended to her by friend and
softball teammate Matthew B. Roberts. “[Roberts] had read the books as a reader during one
of his first jobs,― Davis explains. “He passed on the books because they wanted to do movies
but told me they would be great for TV. I took him up on that and read them all the way through.
“I loved them,― Davis says with unabashed adoration. “This to me was my passion
project.― But the television landscape at the time wasnâ€t yet the haven for high-­concept sci-
­fi series it seems to be today. “Game of Thrones was not on at that point. Ron had tried to
do Dragonriders of Pern. It just didnâ€t feel like the timing was right.― Cut to a personal dinner
Davis was having with Moore and his wife, Terry Dresbach, where the three started talking about
the projects they had always longed to do. “I said, ‘My passion project is this book series
called Outlander, and I would love to do them,â€â€‰â€• Davis recalls. “I didnâ€t realize
Terry was also a fan. So we talked, and Ron seemed intrigued.― “Terry and I talked about it
after the dinner a few times,― Moore remembers. “But it wasnâ€t really until I sat down and
started reading the book that I saw the potential.― From that first read, he says, he was struck by
how Gabaldonâ€s writing kept surprising him. “By the time I got to the end of the book, there

had been some significant twists and turns that I didnâ€t see coming. In my head, I could
definitely see a season of television and how it works through a season. Plus the fact that, at that
point, there were multiple books in the series just meant that it had a life beyond season one. I
remember thinking, If the other books are anywhere near as good as this, then essentially Iâ€m
in.― Davis was thrilled to get the go-­ahead to pursue. “I got in touch with the rights holder,
Jim Kohlberg. We had a great meeting, but it was very obvious that they wanted to do this book
series as films.― Davis left the meeting convinced a film would not do justice to the books.
“Reluctantly, we walked away,― she says. “But I was like a dog with a bone,― she
continues, laughing. “I just kept checking back every once in a while. One of the times, they
were open to doing TV. So Ron and I went back in there and had a fabulous meeting, and it kind
of started there.― Davis says they pitched Chris Parnell, executive vice president of Sony
Pictures Television, to be their studio partner, but he was unfamiliar with the books. “To his
credit, Chris went out and bought the book on tape and listened in his car, which was so cute,―
she says. “He would call me every once in a while and be like, ‘I am sitting in my car
blushing,†which was hilarious.― By the bookâ€s end, Davis says, Parnell was on board
and ready to champion the show to the networks. The next step for Moore and Davis was to
officially visit Gabaldon at her Scottsdale, Arizona, residence. “Just from the fan perspective,
not even a producer perspective, I felt it was so important to get her approval,― Davis says. “I
wanted her approval and just to make sure she was comfortable that this book was in the right
hands. I wanted to assure her that we werenâ€t trying to exploit it and