On the heels of the show’s multi-season renewal, exec producer Matthew Roberts has revealed that Outlander Season 3 will arrive sooner than expected, per THR:
We knew we were going to do season three for sure. We haven’t stopped working, and we just went straight over from season two to season three. We carried the writers room over and a few people in Scotland continued to prep for next season. Outlander is a beast of a show to produce, so if we took a normal break, a regular hiatus like a normal show, we would already be behind. Now the fans can have it sooner than what they think. The Droughtlander won’t be as long as they expect.
On speculation that Outlander could extend into a spinoff series, Roberts allows for the possibility but denies any firm discussions:
Oddly enough, we always joke about spinoffs, whether it’s Lord John or Black Jack [Tobias Menzies] or this person or that person, because there is just so much material. [Author] Diana [Gabaldon] gives us so much in the books that you can probably make 10 series and the fans would watch it all. We haven’t really discussed it seriously if we could do that, but that would be something for Starz to order before we could start talking about it seriously. But we know there’s a whole line of books that Diana wrote about just that one character, so it was great to have his introduction in my script.
Stay tuned as we continue to monitor the survival status of Outlander heading into Seasons 3 and 4…
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