Just a few more weeks before the popular time-traveling couple goes to war again. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Starz just released the trailer for the newest season of Outlander. The first half of the seventh season will premiere on June 16 and immerse its viewers into the fight for America. Watch the trailer below.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the hit show’s seventh season will be based on An Echo in the Bone, the seventh book in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (Lord John Grey series). Some of the source material will also be adapted from the sixth book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, due to a shortened sixth season due to the pandemic. The new season will start where season six left off.
Starz has already renewed Outlander for an eighth season which will be the final season of the popular show. At the time of the eighth and final season, the show will be the longest-running original in Starz history. The renewal was announced months before the seventh season’s premiere, which will have an extended season, counting sixteen episodes. The final season will reduce the count to ten episodes.
The cast of the seventh season includes Caitríona Balfe (Ford v Ferrari, Belfast) as Claire Randall, Sam Heughan (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Suspect) stars as Jamie Fraser, Sophie Skelton (Stalker, 211) portraying Brianna Randall Fraser, Richard Rankin (Burnistoun, The Syndicate) plays Roger Wakefield, John Bell (Into the Badlands, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies) as Ian, David Berry (A Place to Call Home, Home and Away) will be starring as Lord John Grey, newcomer Caitlin O’Ryan portrays Lizzie Wemyss, Paul Gorman (Mayflies) will be playing Keziah Beardsley, Charles Vandervaart (Holly Hobbie, Murdoch Mysteries) as William Ransom, Izzy Meikle-Small (Ripper Street, The 7.39) stars as Rachel Hunter, and Joey Phillips (Doctors, Casualty) portrays Dr. Denzell Hunter.
Starz has green-lighted a prequel series called Outlander: Blood of My Blood. This new show will follow the love story of Jamie Fraser’s parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie. Outlander showrunner Matthew B. Roberts (Hellcats, Caprica) will also be the showrunner for this new series. The author, Gabaldon, will serve as a consulting producer on the prequel show.
Outlander follows Claire, a 1945 combat nurse who mysteriously ends up in 1743. There, she encounters Jamie Fraser, a handsome Highlander with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. During her time in the past, Claire gets entangled in the Jacobite uprising as she attempts to return to her time.
The seventh season of Outlander is set to premiere on June 16. It is still unknown when the last season will premiere. Seasons one through six are available to watch on Starz and Netflix.