Blood of My Blood: Check Out Gorgeous New Shots From Outlander’s Forthcoming Prequel Series

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This summer just got a lot Scot-ter.

Starz on Monday released new photos from its upcoming Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood, which will premiere on Friday, Aug. 8, at 9/8c.

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The new series follows Jamie’s parents, Scots Ellen MacKenzie (played byPennyworth‘s Harriet Slater) and Brian Fraser (Condor’s Nest‘s Jamie Roy), andClaire’s parents, Brits Julia Moriston (We Hunt Together‘s Hermione Corfield) and Henry Beauchamp (Treadstone‘s Jeremy Irvine).

“The series will center on these two parallel love stories set in two different time periods, with Jamie’s parents in the early 18th-century Scottish Highlands and Claire’s parents in WWI England,” the official logline reads.

In addition to the posters and photos below, you can also see the love stories begin to unfold in the previously released teaser trailer above, which involves grand estates, longing looks, wartime horror, bare thighs, horses and kilts— a little something for everyone!

Longtime fans of the original series also will recognize characters including Murtagh FItzgibbons Fraser (played by Rory Alexander), Colum and Dougal MacKenzie (Séamus McLean Ross and Sam Retford, respectively), Mrs. Fitz (Sally Messham), Jocasta Cameron (Sadhbh Malin), Ned Gowan (Conor MacNeill) and Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (Tony Curran).

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Outlandershowrunner Matthew B. Roberts serves as showrunner and executive producer on the spinoff. Season 1 will consist of 10 episodes. Maril Davis and Ronald D. Moore also will be EPs, andOutlanderauthor Diana Gabaldon will be a consulting producer.

Keep scrolling for a closer look at Outlander: Blood of My Blood, then hit the comments: Are you planning to watch the prequel?

Brian Fraser (Jamie Roy), Jamie Fraser’s father and the bastard son of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat.Courtesy of StarzEllen MacKenzie (Harriet Slater), Jamie Fraser’s mother. She is the eldest child of “Red Jacob,” the laird of Clan MacKenzie and sister to Colum, Dougal, Janet and Jocasta.Julia Moriston (Hermione Corfield), Claire’s mother, works in the censorship office in London in 1917, tasked with restricting sensitive information from soldiers’ letters home when she stumbles across Henry’s.The MacKenzie brothers, headstrong Dougal (Sam Retford) and shrewd Colum (Séamus McLean Ross), at odds over who will be the next laird of Clan MacKenzie after their father’s passing.AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2hekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R4hekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe Henry Beauchamp (Jeremy Irvine), Claire’s father, serving in the trenches in World War I. Frustrated with the state of war, he writes a letter to the Times, which is intercepted by Julia Moriston.Murtagh (Rory Alexander) is the nephew of Mrs. Fitzgibbons, who is working at Castle Leoch as Ellen’s maid. Murtagh is Brian Fraser’s cousin and best friend, who eventually becomes Jamie’s godfather and confidant.Courtesy of Starzoutlander-blood-of-my-blood-photosoutlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2mekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R4mekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R2rekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R4rekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-outlander-blood-of-my-blood-photos-AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R30ekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe AdvertisementAdvertisement#«R50ekkr8lb2m7nfddbH1» iframe

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