Essential Pictures has hired Randall Wallace to adapt author Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" novel for the big screen.
Originally published in the UK under the title "Cross Stitch", "Outlander" is the first in a series of novels (currently six), following main characters 'Claire Fraser' and 'Jamie Fraser', set in eighteenth and twentieth-century Scotland.
The work is a romance novel with a focus on the romantic relationship between the two main characters, with a plot propelled by time travel when Claire journeys from the 1940s to the eighteenth century...