"Outlander" is not one to recreate the novels of Diana Gabaldon where the show was based on to the letter. Season 3, which will be adapted from her third book "Voyager," will not be any different.
The upcoming season will pick up from where the previous installment left off, instead of how the book started, which reveals the horrible situation of Jamie (Sam Heughan) after the Battle of Culloden.
Fans of the book would know that "Voyager" opens with Jamie having no memory of the 1746 battle. This will not be the case in the new season of the time-travel period drama.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, executive producer Ronald D. Moore said that opening "Outlander" season 3 with the war between the French-supported highlanders and the British army was simply the way to go after all that build up they made over the course of the series.
"It just felt like for the TV show, we've been promising this for a while and it just felt like we should have something," Moore explained. "We should give the audience some sense of what happened on that moor," the EP went on to say.
This means that when fans check back in on "Outlander" season 3, they will get to see Jamie in a duel with his rapist, Jonathan 'Black Jack' Randall (Tobias Menzies).
Meanwhile, as the production for the new season continues, two more individuals are added to the cast. Cesar Domboy was tapped to play the role of an older Fergus, who fans saw as a kid in the second season.
Lauren Lyle, on the other hand, was recruited to play the role of Marsali, one of the young daughters of Laoghaire (Nell Hudson).
The new season will also see the return of Sophie Skelton as Jamie and Claire's daughter, Brianna, and Richard Rankin as Roger Wakefield.
"Outlander" season 3 is expected to premiere in spring 2017 on Starz.
