Before the TV show was announced or Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe cast in their now-famous roles as Jamie and Claire Fraser, we were almost given a made-for-TV movie based on the Outlander books instead.
Things could have been very different if the original plans for the franchise had gone ahead. Author Diana Gabaldon, who created the universe almost 30 years ago when her first book in the epic series, Outlander (Cross Stitch), was published in 1991, had previously revealed that Liam Neeson (perhaps due to his kilted turn in the 1995 film Rob Roy) had been considered for the role of Jamie if any movie was to go ahead.While Katherine Heigl was also apparently in the running for Claire, with the Knocked Up star even hinting in 2012 that she
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