Sam Heughan, Caitríona Balfe and the rest of the main cast are expected to return for the final episodes.
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“Outlander” wouldn’t be “Outlander” without its two main stars, who will return for season eight.
The pair, who have also acted as executive producers since season five, play 18th-century Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser and his speedy wife Claire Randall Fraser.
The couple’s daughter, Brianna Mackenzie (Sophie Skelton) and her husband, Roger Mackenzie (Richard Rankin), will also return to the screen.
Other supporting characters audiences can expect to see return include Buck Mackenzie (Diarmaid Murtagh), Young Ian (John Bell), Lord John Gray (David Berry), William Ransom (Charles Vandervaart), Fergus (César Domboy) and Marsali Mackimmie (Lauren Lyle).
Recently introduced characters like The Hunter sisters, Rachel and Denzell (Izzy Meikle-Small and Joey Phillips), are also likely to return, as well as Fanny Pocock (Forrie May Wilkinson).
The latest installment may finally answer questions about Jamie’s ‘Ghost’ appearance in season one.
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Fans have been asking for an explanation about Jamie’s “Ghost” appearance in the show’s pilot episode for years.
It is expected that the final season will finally explain how and why Jamie was able to see Claire in 1945 before she took her life-changing plunge through the standing stones.
However, it is not the only mystery left unsolved.
As revealed in the season seven finale, Jamie and Claire Besimi’s infant daughter may have survived after all.
The episodes will be loosely based on the events of the ninth Outlander novel, but will differ from Diana Gabaldon’s planned ending.
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While early seasons of the show adapted roughly one book per season, that hasn’t been the case in recent years.
The most recent seventh season included elements and scenes of stories from three different installments “Outlander”, “a breath of snow and ash”, “an echo in the bone” and “written in the blood of my heart”.
Audiences can expect to see the eighth season follow the script of the most recently published book, Go Tell the Bees I’m Gone.
But like “Game of Thrones,” another much-loved TV drama adapted from a long-running book series, “Outlander” will likely end its run on television before the final novel comes out.
Although Gabaldon has a close working relationship with the showrunners, audiences can expect the Outlander TV series and the Outlander TV series to have different endings.
It’s not the end of Outlander as a spinoff is on the way.
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However, fans won’t have to say goodbye to “Outlander” for good, as a sequel series is coming.
“Outlander: Blood of My Blood” will tell two parallel origin stories: How Jamie’s parents came to meet and Claire’s parents’ wartime romance. It will be broadcast in the summer of 2025.
Set in 18th-century Scotland, Harriet Slater, best known for her role in Pennyworth, will play Jamie’s mother, Ellen Mackenzie. Actor Jamie Roy will play his father, Brian Fraser.
The story of Claire’s parents unfolds in World War I England. Hermione Corfield will star as Claire’s mother, Julia Moriston, while Jeremy Irvine will play her father, Henry Beauchamp.
