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Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Outlander's Historical Landmarks in Scotland
Why tour Scotland? Here's Why
OUTLANDER author Diana Gabaldon and stars of the TV adaptation insist there is no doubt that Scotland plays a starring role in the show.
THE Outlander phenomenon has seen fans flock to Scotland to take in the locations featured in the show.
The success of Diana Gabaldon 's eight book series and the hit TV adaptation has boosted Scottish tourism and spawned an industry of location-inspired tours.
Some book location tours have been running for years while many other companies have added Outlander slants to existing tours based on film locations.
The hit show was filmed across various locations in Scotland, including a one-month stint at Doune Castle.
Linlithgow Palace, in the Scottish town of West Lothian, was also used to stand in for the entrance and corridors of Wentworth Prison .
And Outlander author Diana Gabaldon is a patron of Castle Leod, near Strathpeffer, and has used it as a fictional location - Castle Leoch - in her best-selling series of books.
Glasgow's iconic landmark, George Square, also played a key role after it was turned into a 1940s set during the show's first season.
Diana Gabaldon said: “The photography is amazing, not that Scotland by itself isn’t amazing, but the way they’ve photographed it. Ron (Moore, the producer) said from the beginning when he realised that we could film in Scotland – which is what he and I both wanted – that it must be as much a character in the show as any of the actual cast members, and it certainly is. It’s just spectacular.”
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Sam HEUGHAN Graham MCTAVISH Gary LEWIS Duncan LACROIX Appearing RINGCON convention
NOVEMBER 6-8TH 2015
TRANSLATION below
2015 öffnet das Maritim in Bonn vom 6. bis 8. November Türen und Tore für die Besucher der RingCon, der größten Fantasy-Convention Europas. Dort haben die Besucher drei Tage lang die Gelegenheit, Stars aus Filmen und Serien zu treffen, Autogramme zu holen, an Fotosessions mit ihnen teilzunehmen, ihnen bei ihren Bühnenpanels Fragen zu stellen und sie vielleicht sogar im Rahmen der legendären RingCon-Parties abends noch etwas näher kennenzulernen. Darüber hinaus gibt es ein vielfältiges Angebot bestehend aus Workshops, Vorträgen, Kostümwettbewerb und Konzerten, und nicht zuletzt kommen Fantasy-Fans aus aller Welt zusammen, um ein gemeinsames unvergessliches Wochenende zu erleben.
Update: Was für großartige Neuigkeiten: Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser) kommt! RingCon-Besucher werden den attraktiven Schotten im Herbst persönlich kennenlernen dürfen. Zudem haben seine drei "Outlander"-Kollegen bereits ihr Kommen zugesagt. Graham McTavish(Dougal MacKenzie), Gary Lewis (Colum MacKenzie) und Duncan Lacroix (Murtagh Fraser). HobbitCon-Besucher hatten bereits das Vergnügen, McTavish sehen zu dürfen. Wie es war, den stattlichen Schotten im Schottenrock kennenzulernen, könnt ihr in unseren Berichtennachlesen.
Sam Heughan is the leading actor in Outlander, he plays Jamie Fraser and he is coming to RingCon 15 as a part of our big Outlander-Special at the Convention.
Sam Heughan
Category: Starguests
Published: Tuesday, 28 July 2015 13:30
Written by FedCon Team
Sam Heughan is the leading actor in Outlander, he plays Jamie Fraser and he is coming toRingCon 15 as a part of our bigOutlander-Special at the Convention
Outlander is a British-American television drama series based on the historical time travel Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Created by Ronald D. Moore and produced by Left Bank Pictures for Starz, the show began its first run of 16 episodes on August 9, 2014, and concluded on May 30, 2015. On August 15, 2014, Starz renewed the series for a second season of at least 13 episodes, which will be based on Dragonfly in Amber, the second book in Gabaldon's series.
Plot summary
In 1945, married World War II nurse Claire Beauchamp Randall finds herself transported back to Scotland in 1743, where she encounters rebellion and the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser.
- en.wikipedia.org
Sam Heughan – Jamie Fraser
Sam Heughan is a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and film productions and a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where he was a 2003 nominee for the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performance for his work in the program.
Executive producer Ron Moore stated: "From the very beginning, I knew the part of Jamie Fraser would be difficult to cast. I had no one in mind for the part. I knew that someone would just come into the audition and be Jamie Fraser. And that’s what Sam did."
http://ringcon.de/en/announcements/starguests/sam-heughan.html link to site
Outlander casts King Louis XV for season 2
by Lynette Rice | July 28 2015 — 5:15 PM EDT
From now until our huge fall TV preview hits newsstands Sept. 10, EW is bringing you 50 scoops in 50 days. Follow the hashtag #50Scoops50Days on Twitter and Instagram to keep up with the latest, and check EW.com/50Scoops50Days for all the news and surprises.
Meet the royal who could either help — or hurt — Jamie and Claire in the new season of Outlander.
French actor Lionel Lingelser has been cast as King Louis XV in the Starz drama that’ll return for a second round of episodes in 2016, EW has exclusively learned. As the King of France, Louis XV has a taste for the ladies and is used to getting whatever he wants — until he grows tired of people who no longer appeal to him.
Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) cross paths with the king after they flee to France to avoid Black Jack Randall. Their plan is to ingratiate themselves in the French court so they can thwart the financing for Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite rebellion and — with any luck — stop the battle of Culloden that will upend the Highland uprising.
A graduate of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris, Lingelser stars in Jean Emmanuel Godart’s forthcoming feature Big House with Gérard Depardieu. He is set to recur in the new season that will is expected to return in the spring.
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